The Constitutional Court started reviewing this Tuesday the opposition’s request for rejecting the territorial division law.
The Democratic Party representatives said that the law violates five principles of the Constitution. They insist it passed unilaterally, with a rushed procedure, with no constitutional obligation implemented for consulting citizens, and the division of the country in communes has been done against the law.
Oerd Bylykbashi declared that this new division damages the vote equality and its specific weight, since the law was not followed by other amends in the local administration and the electoral laws.
Government and Parliament representatives rejected the claims of the opposition. They declared that they tried consensus with the opposition for several months; the law passed by respecting the Parliament’s procedures and that they took opinions from the citizens. They explained that the Constitution doesn’t require citizens to give their consent about this reform, rejecting this way the opposition’s claim for local referendums.
Armand Subashi and Artur Metani, representatives of the Parliament and the Government, declared that the vote equality has not been damaged, since the other laws have been part of the parliamentary procedures for the necessary amends, and that the Constitution has left the commune concept as a variant for the division of the local government, not as an obligatory division.
The Constitutional Court withdrew and is preparing the verdict, while the President will declare the new election date after one week. For this reason, the Democratic Party declared that the electoral process has entered a stalemate and that the elections of 2015 will not be held with this territorial division.
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