After the Constitutional Court remained without members, due to the vetting law, the process for appointing new members is entering a new, unprecedented and dangerous constitutional stalemate.
The President of Albania, Ilir Meta, decreed Marsida Xhaferllari several days after his legal deadline. His delay meant that the next on the list, Ana Vorpsi, would automatically go to the Constitutional Court since the President failed to exert his Constitutional Right for appointing the new candidate within the 30-days provided by law.
The President argues that he couldn’t appoint the second member since that would make him violation the Constitution. In such conditions, according to the Presidency, the Parliament would be stripped of the right to appoint, since the list of the Commission of Justice Appointments would be reduced to 2 candidates, from 3.
The Presidency justifies the appointing of Marsida Xhaferi with the fact that she had a better CV. Xhaferi has not finalized her vetting process yet. She will face the Special Commission of Appeals on January 21st. The President went back to strong accusing declarations towards the majority, one day ago.
Despite the new conflict of the president with Edi Rama, Arta Vorpsi continued with her new duty. She did not lose time to wait for the President’s invitation to take her oath. She took the oath in front of a notary and sent it to the President through the post. Then she entered the Constitutional Court building for her first day at the new job.
The majority accused the President of opposing the judiciary reform in a brutal way, and summoned a new extraordinary meeting this Friday, to discuss the Constitutional violation of the President.
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