Xhaçka/ Spiropali summoned the Legislation Council, Bardhi reacts: Anti-constitutional order!

The head of the parliamentary group of the DP, Gazment Bardhi, reacted after the speaker of the Assembly, Elisa Spiropali, summoned the Council of Legislation, after the request of the DP for an extraordinary session in the Assembly to implement the decision of the Constitution on the mandate of the MP Olta Xhaçka.

Bardhi states that the Speaker of the Assembly has approved an anti-constitutional order, since according to him, she has a constitutional and legal obligation to call the extraordinary session of the Assembly within 3 days of the submission of the request of 1/5 of the deputies.

The head of the DP parliamentary group further adds that the 2-year delay of this case, the non-implementation of two decisions of the Constitutional Court is political protection from the justice of a deputy of the majority, a close associate of Edi Rama.

Full reaction:

 "The President of the Assembly has the constitutional and legal obligation to call the extraordinary session of the Assembly within 3 days from the submission of the request of 1/5 of the deputies, in order to implement without delay the decision of the Constitutional Court.

Meeting of the Council of Legislation, in addition to the unnecessary delay of the procedure for removing the mandate of Olta Xhaçka, was also considered an unconstitutional procedure by the Constitutional Court. In paragraph 61 of decision no. 55/2024 of the Constitutional Court it is noted that: "The Court assesses that the Assembly has not acted in accordance with the Constitution as long as it has submitted the issue of the execution of its decision to the evaluation of the Council for Legislation and the Council for Mandates, structures in which the parliamentary majority questioned the binding power of the Court's decision, called an external expert and then assessed that the case should be forwarded to the plenary session for a vote".

The 2-year delay of this case, the non-implementation of the two decisions of the Constitutional Court is political protection from the justice of a deputy of the majority, a close associate of Edi Rama. It is unacceptable the political protection and obstruction of justice that the majority is doing in the case of former minister and MP Olta Xhaçka, ignoring the Constitution and preventing the implementation of two decisions of the Constitutional Court.

We strongly condemn the standard "one justice for Edi Rama and another justice for all others". In every democratic country, the implementation of the decisions of the Constitutional Court is mandatory and the foundation on which a legal state is built."

Yesterday, the Democratic Party Parliamentary Group addressed a letter to Speaker Elisa Spiropali, requesting an extraordinary session in the Assembly, regarding the implementation of the decision of the Constitutional Court for the mandate of Socialist MP Olta Xhaçka. The request was signed by the head of the parliamentary group of the DP Gazment Bardhi and 28 other deputies of the DP and the opposition.

DP demands that former minister Xhaçka's mandate be removed for conflict of interest, as her husband, Artan Gaçi, was declared a strategic investor by decision of the Council of Ministers, to build the resort "Dreamades Luxury Suites" in the village of Gjileke in Himara.

More specifically, DP requests the implementation of decision no. 1, dated 23.01.2023 and no. 55, dated 10.07.2024 of the Constitutional Court and the sending to this court of the motion for the incompatibility of the mandate of MP Olta Xhaçka.