25 January 2022 Reaction of the President of the Republic, H.E. Ilir Meta: Stop the lies of the MPs Lulzim Basha and Gazment Bardhi for the decision of the Constitutional Court on the voting of June 30, 2019!
STOP THE LIES of the MPs Lulzim Basha and Gazment Bardhi for the decision of the Constitutional Court on the voting of June 30, 2019!
THE DISMANTLING OF THE FIRST LIE!
Yesterday we were introduced to some repeated lies of the Democratic Party MP, Gazment Bardhi held on a TV show, regarding the local partial elections of March 6, 2022, but which are also related to the decision of the Constitutional Court for the elections of 30 June 2019.
Mr. Bardhi in this interview given yesterday states that:
“…. This court did not legitimize the June 30 elections. It did not say that these elections were constitutional or legal. It said that the entity that sets in motion the Constitutional Court should not be the association of municipalities, but the president of the republic, thus giving the president the opportunity to initiate the process in this court. So, the court has not entered into the substance of the case. “
MP Bardhi does not lie when he states that:
– This court did not legitimize the June 30 elections; It did not say that these elections were constitutional or legal; the court has not entered into the substance of the case. Here he does not lie.
But MP Bardhi, LIES when he consciously and repeatedly declares that the Constitutional Court once told us that, “the entity that sets in motion the Constitutional Court should not be the association of municipalities, but the president of the republic, thus giving the president the opportunity to initiate the process in this court ”.
We invite Mr. Bardhi to read to us in which paragraph the Constitutional Court has written exactly what he declares that if a request had been submitted by the President, the Court would have declared the June 30 elections as unconstitutional?!.
Enough with LIES!
Mr. Bardhi’s statements are overflowing with lies.
On the one hand, there is the repeated 5-year tactic to escape the responsibility of the Democratic Party leadership for the situation of abandonment of the local government elections of 2019, and on the other hand, MP Bardhi undertakes to lie this time on behalf of the Constitutional Court.
It suffices to quote Mr. Bardhi, three paragraphs (26, 61, and 73) of the Constitutional Court itself, to expose the intentional lies:
Paragraph 26.
“The court, referring to the object of the request under review, notes that the applicant (i.e. the association of Albanian municipalities) has filed two requests:
the first relates to the finding as unconstitutional of the electivity / electoral process for the election of local government bodies, held on 30.06.2019, consequently the unconstitutional finding of the election of members of these bodies;
the second concerns the verification of the constitutionality of the activity of the party “Democratic Persuasion (Bindja Demokratike)” in relation to its registration in court for these local elections.
Paragraph 73.
“Regarding the above, the Court considers that in relation to the first request of the case under review the case is not part of the constitutional jurisdiction, while in relation to the second request the applicant (i.e. the association of Municipalities) is not legitimized to initiate the constitutional trial.”
Paragraph 61.
“Regarding the above, the request for the unconstitutional ascertainment of the eligibility / electoral process conducted on 30.06.2019 for the election of local government bodies, remains outside the constitutional jurisdiction, so the Court can not invest in this issue.
The Constitutional Court declared itself incompetent to review the constitutionality of electoral processes as a whole.
For the clarity of all, according to the Constitutional Court itself, regardless of which subject could submit a request for the unconstitutionality of the voting process of June 30, 2019, it would again declare itself incompetent for lack of constitutional jurisdiction.
This is always according to what the Court itself says !!!
We remind the MPs Basha – Bardhi, that the President of the Republic is neither an electoral subject, nor a representative of any party running in the elections, nor enters the type of institutions that have the duty to follow the political parties in the courts every time there is an electoral race, or to defend the interests of a certain political force.
It is the duty of the political forces themselves that claim to exist to improve and preserve democracy, and that they must do everything possible to carry out a constitutional electoral process, to preserve intact the fundamental rights of the citizens they claim to represent, most importantly the fundamental right to choose through a free, secret, fair and alternative voting process.
So this has been, is and should be the primary task of the Democratic Party as the main opposition force in the country.
The President of the Republic has the duty to exercise the competencies and the role given to him by the constitution, where among his main tasks as a representative of the unity of the people is to supervise the normal functioning of the constitutional mechanisms, intervening to eliminate shortcomings in this regard.
For this purpose, the President issues decrees, that in the case of the 2019 local elections, no one dared to challenge these decrees before any Court, not even before the Constitutional Court.
In the absence of a fundamental decision by the Constitutional Court, and after declaring itself incompetent by it, the President of the Republic obeys only the Constitution of Albania and the interest of Albanian citizens in those 6 Municipalities that today are without a mayor.