Gjiknuri: Socialist mandate withheld

According to him, the majority’s stance is a clear violation of the Constitution, and the Democratic Party’s request for addressing it to the Constitutional Court is unprecedented.

The stalemate is related with the fact that Gjon Bardhi, who comes after Seseri on the SP candidate list for MPs is currently the Mayor of Fushe Kruje, a post that he refuses to abandon. The SP asked the mandate to pass to the candidate that comes after Gjon Barhi, Edison Konomi, but the DP rejected it, saying that they will ask an opinion from the Constitutional Court.

Socialists’ missing Parliament seat

After the Socialist MP, Rudina Seseri, resigned from her Parliament seat, the Parliamentary Council of Mandates have not given a final answer to the Socialists who are trying to continue the procedures for its replacement.

The debates were held behind closed doors and Top Channel has been able to receive the transcribed document.

The majority suspects that the mandate of the current Mayor of Fushe Kruje, Gjon Bardhi, is against the Constitution, since the Central Election Commission stated tat he has two mandate.

The Socialists insisted through Mayor Gjon Bardhi, who was present in the meeting, by refusing the Parliament Seat in order to continue his mandate as Mayor.

Socialists Gramoz Ruci and Damian Gjiknuri, as respectively Parliamentary Group Leader and Chairman of the Electoral Reform Commission, declare that the debate can be closed with this. Ruci thinks that the conflict comes as result of the CEC decision that has legitimized an illegal mandate. Ruci insisted for the Council to verify it and ask CEC to appoint another name of the list.

The Socialists state that the problem is solved in the moment when the Fushe Kruje Mayor refused the Parliament Seat, but the Parliament Speaker, jozefina Topalli, and the Democratic Chairman of the Commission of Laws, the Fushe Kruje Mayor cannot refuse something that he doesn’t have.

According to them, CEC implemented the Electoral Code and gave Bardhi a second mandate, which is against the Constitution. The Democrats insist that the Parliament cannot declare the seat vacant without clarifying the conflict.

The debates went on for a long time, and very complicated, from the legal point of view. But the Socialist made a political summary by saying that the majority is withholding an opposition seat. The Democrats declared that they can ask an opinion from the Constitutional Court, but several days have to pass before this decision can be taken.

If the majority will bring the case to the Constitutional Court, there are chances that the Socialists will have one MP less for the Presidential voting, a procedure in which every single vote counts.

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