Legal Saga for Tirana

The Socialist Party made a last minute tactical movement by withdrawing their June 30th appeal, which requested the invalidation of the local elections. SP wants the Court to review first the July 2nd appeal. SP sources say that this was a tactical movement from the Socialist Party in response to the DP request, which demanded both cases to be merged in one.

Besides the last minute withdrawal, SP sources confirmed that this was temporary. Opposition expects the Electoral College to rule in favor of their request for obliging CEC to invalidate the decision that announced Lulzim Basha as winner, leading with 92 votes.

Without making any prejudice, but by referring to the previous precedents, which have not been rare in this prolonged process, chances are that CEC will reject the SP request. But what will happen after that?

The Socialists will file at the Electoral College the request that they just withdrew: the invalidation of May 8th local elections for Tirana, but only after CEC will have its say. In principle, these are the legal movements expected from the Socialist Party, but they might change, as we have seen so far. The last SP tactical movement showed that the legal movements will continue to keep all parties under pressure in a battle that is starting to look more like a chess game, when every movement is taken slowly, with the eyes to the opponent. With this pace, its end is unpredictable.

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