The Parliamentary Group of the Democratic Party has today officially responded to the letter of the Speaker of the Assembly for not convening the Assembly in an extraordinary session to implement without delay the decision of the Constitutional Court regarding the mandate of Olta Xhaçka.
In the letter signed by the Chairman of the Gazment Bardhi Group, it is underlined that "the meeting of the Assembly in an extraordinary session, when requested by no less than one fifth of the deputies, as one of the constitutional subjects that is expressly mentioned in article 74, point 2 of According to the Constitution, it is mandatory for the Speaker of the Assembly, who has only one responsibility to set the date of the session within the period "3 days from the submission of the request".
"It turns out that you have in fact called an extraordinary session of the Assembly, ordering the "out-of-session meeting of the Council of Legislation", but contrary to the Constitution and the Regulations of the Assembly, firstly, you have scheduled the meeting of the Assembly's bodies beyond the deadline "3 days" which is clearly defined by the Regulation; and secondly, you have not scheduled a meeting of the plenary session", says the official response of the DP parliamentary group.
The DP Parliamentary Group considers the meeting of the Legislation Council in this case to be completely unnecessary, bringing to attention that the Constitutional Court itself, in decision no. 55/2024 considered that the Assembly did not act in accordance with the Constitution as long as it submitted the issue of the execution of its decision to the assessment of the Council for Legislation and the Council for Mandates.
"As a rule, the meeting of the Assembly in an extraordinary session, i.e. in an extraordinary plenary session, is preceded by the meeting of other bodies of the Assembly, i.e. parliamentary committees or councils. For this reason, point 2 of Article 42 of the Assembly's Rules of Procedure has established two obligations for the President of the Assembly, for calling an extraordinary session (1) Calling the Assembly meeting no later than 3 days from the submission of the request; (2) Determining an order of committee meetings and the plenary session within this term." – is clarified in the answer.