TIRANA – Ruling Socialist Party (SP) parliamentary majority has given up its drive to dismiss Albania’s President Ilir Meta being opposed by the parliamentary opposition in a meeting of the Inquiry Commission on President’s dismissal held on Friday.
Socialist MPs said they had found violations made by Meta but according to their assessment they did not bring consequences which can lead to his dismissal. According to the SP report presented to the commission on Friday, the violations are not sufficient to fire the head of state. It was the majority which asked the establishment of such parliamentary mechanism against Meta when the latter overruled the decree on the local power elections of June 30, 2019 an event which was followed by severe clashes between Meta and Socialists.
“We have a violation of the repeal of the decree. The right to vote was violated. Carrying out actions to annul or postpone elections also violated the principle of the right of the people to be sovereign and to exercise their rights,” said the SP member of the commission, Klotida Bushka.
But the opposition members of the commission were furious with majority’s decision abandoning the meeting. They labeled this stance of SP as ‘games between the majority and President’ and insisted that Meta should be dismissed.
Opposition MP Halit Valteri stated that two reports will be presented to the plenary session of Parliament and their report will push for Meta’s dismissal
In another event, President Meta has reacted after the statement of the MEPs published by the European Parliament on the issue of the June 5 agreement and integration. He thanked the European partners for their support and said that the first condition for opening of negotiations is the urgent approval of the June 5 Agreement on Electoral Reform.
The joint statement of three MEPs -David McAllister, Isabel Santos and Manolis Kefalogiannis said on Thursday that they expected that the parliamentary majority would adopt the necessary changes without undermining the consensus reached between the Government and the Opposition on 5 June this year. /argumentum.al
