Albania:The losing of the mandates, the constitutionalists: it will be an institutional shocking

The losing of the mandates, the constitutionalists: it will be an institutional shocking

Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Kastriot Islami declared at the program “Studio e Hapur” in Alsat that there is a big possibility that the socialist deputies will enter the parliament before the expiry of the 6 months deadline of the validity of the mandates predicted by the constitution. “I think that it is most probably that they will enter. If they will not enter or will enter partially, the constitution will be applied and this will be a cost for the individuals and for PS because it is not easy to think that the deputies of PS that were considered important will lose their mandate. This will have an impact even in the electorate”, said Islami. The replacement of the deputies if they don’t enter in the parliament is considered as a constitutional solution by Aurela Anastasi, Clirim Gjata and Oerd Bylykbashi. It also emphasized that the procedure of replacement will cause an institutional shock. “If these deputies will not return in the parliament, the constitution is very clear” said Bylykbashi. “I hope that for the first time the politics will subdue to the constitution and the law. So we will have appliance of the constitution, a constitutional and law solution” said Gjata. “Even in interrupting the mandates or in applying the electoral code, I predict and institutional shock and consider this as the disregard of the constitution by the political forces” said Anastasi. Taulant Boja