Linda Rama: Between Family, Work and Albania’s Future The Constitutional Court has rejected the request of the Tenants’
Association by leaving in power the government’s normative act that asks
them to leave the buildings by November 1st.
While the Constitutional Court has not published yet the explanatory arguments for the verdict, the Tenants’ Association reacted immediately.
The defensive lawyer, Dorian Matlia, declared that in these conditions of urgency they have sent a request to the Strasbourg Court this Wednesday, since dozens of tenants risk being evicted.
“We addressed to the Strasbourg Court with urgency, because the situation is very alarming. After November 1st we will have 3000 families evicted from their homes, and Strasbourg needs time for these cases to decide if the case will be put on hold. We were expecting a hold from the Constitutional Court yesterday, but it didn’t happen. It is rare to make a suspension for emergent cases through a fax”, Matlia declared.
One of the tenants’ claims in Strasbourg is the violation of the legal security. “The main thing is that the act doesn’t guarantee that the persons who benefit loans will actually take them. This act doesn’t guarantee anything, because they don’t have a sufficient payment and the loan is not given 100, but only partially, and they need to have some part of the money”, Matlia declared.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Transports, Sokol Olldashi, greeted the Constitutional Court decision, saying that this will avoid all procedural problems.
“We thank the Constitutional Court for reviewing this case so quickly. Now we can implement the normative act since November 1st, without having procedural complications”, Olldashi declared.
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