TIRANA, July 19 – The Albanian Mayors Association sent to the Constitutional Court the request to interpret the legitimacy of the June 30th elections.
The association’s speaker, Mayor of Shkodra Voltana Ademi, submitted the request on Thursday hoping this will be the first issue to be considered by the court, as soon as it is established.
At present, the Constitutional Court has only one member, Vitore Tusha, and is therefore out of function. For several months, the Independent Qualification Commission has begun the candidates’ vetting for the Constitutional Court’s completion, but this process is not over yet.
Another requirement that the association is raising for the CC to go through once it is established is whether the Democratic Conviction establishment and participation in the June 20 elections was legal.
A day earlier, Durrës judge Mimoza Margjeka refused to certify the mandate of Durrës’s elected mayors that came from the DC after winning the June 30 local elections.
Margjeka called the mandate won by the Socialist candidate illegal, due to the illegal participation in the elections of the DC. According to the law, if the registration of the contestants is illegal, then this makes the elections illegal as well.
