Constitutional Court decision doesn’t affect Census

The data that will derive from this process will be used only for statistical reasons and will not be reflected in the Civil Registrar basic register.  

“The recent decision of the Constitutional Court has no connection with the Census, the data of which will be completely in the disposal of INSTAT for statistical, studying and development purposes. The data of the Census will not be part of the Civil Registrar. The latest Constitutional Court decision regards the government decision for removing the nationality from the birth certificates, as an element of the citizens’ generalities”, declared the head of the Civil Registrar, Armand Teliti.

Law for nationality change rejected

The Constitutional Court rejected the dispositions for changing the nationality in the Civil Registrar.

 The Court ruled with six votes in favor and two against for rejecting the disposition of this law, approved in 2009, for the procedures of changing the nationality in the law for the Civil Registrar. Considering the law as illegal, the Constitution Court ruled that it is inconsistent with the term “nationality”.

The appeal at the Constitutional Court was filed by the Courts of Saranda, Shkoder and Permet, which asked the Constitutional Court to declare it as inconsistent. The District Courts declared that the law damaged the Constitutional Principles by obliging the citizens to change their ethnicity.

Based on this law, the courts of the southern Albanian cities have changed thousands of nationalities, from Albanian to Greek. This wave of changes caused the citizens to complain, and the Red and Black Alliance too. During a tour of meetings with the district courts, this law was also opposed by the Vice Chairman of the High Council of Justice, Kreshnik Spahiu.

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