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Court rejects appeal on vetting bill suspension

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TIRANA, Nov. 22 – Albania’s Constitutional Court rejected this week an appeal by a member of parliament to remove the suspension of the law on transitional qualification assessment of the judges and prosecutors, better known as “the vetting bill.” The chairman of Constitutional Court, Bashkim Dedja, said that there has been no change in circumstances to force the court change its decision to suspend the implementation of the vetting bill until an expert body from the Council of Europe can give its opinion. The hearing was attended by U.S. Ambassador Donald Lu and Head of EU Delegation to Tirana Romana…

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