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Editorial: President hearings and the depth of the constitutional crisis

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL Things will get worse before they get better. The political, institutional and even constitutional crisis in the country continues to be in full swing. This week the parliament opened the Meta hearings which are supposed to conclude whether the President committed constitutional foul with his annulment of elections , which was not implemented anyways) and with his new decree of elections in October, which are all but guaranteed not to happen. In addition the majority has invited an outside body, the Venice Commission to perform their own evaluation about Meta’s potential infringement upon the Constitution. Ironically the…

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