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This is the biggest drama the decree has created.
President Begaj's decree for the November 9 by-elections caused major political dramas, more than a legal drama, for the Municipality of Tirana.
From a legal point of view, most opinion agrees that the decree is the result of a legal maneuver to avoid referring to the Constitution but an article that deals with disputes between employees and their employers. In this case, Erion Veliaj's employer is the Tirana voter and he has not fired him. He will fire him on the day of the next elections, where he is not a candidate.
This is the biggest drama the decree has created.
The Socialist Party, in a desperate attempt to find a solution for the Municipality of Tirana, which has remained like a godless commodity, was in an incomprehensible hurry to wait perhaps one or two more months for this problem to be resolved constitutionally. I do not think that after a month the opposition would be stronger and the positions of the Socialist Party in Tirana would be more endangered. The only thing that could happen a month later was that the opposition would be at the peak of the debates on the choice of the candidate, which had turned into psychological torture for them.
By acting quickly through this legal maneuver, the Socialist Party apparently wanted to create a clear perception of its distancing itself from Erion Veliaj, in order for him to no longer be part of the electoral debate and be considered a finished story. This was also seen today in the High Court, when there were all the theoretical possibilities for the Court to release him from detention, since he is currently considered dismissed and the file has gone to trial, dropping the reasons for his influence on the file in the investigation. Even though the judges are close to the Socialist Party, they have been in line with the party, to leave him in prison. So the only message that the Socialist Party wants to give in this case is their distancing themselves from Erion Veliaj so as not to have him as an issue during the campaign.
On the other hand, the drama in the opposition is even greater. They, hoping that the battle between the Socialist Party and Erion Veliaj would continue and enter into an endless legal spiral, forgot that they could have elections so soon and are now trying to find convincing reasons for violating the Constitution by the President's decree not to enter the elections.
But this is also a difficult decision, as other opposition parties can enter the elections and steal a large part of the electorate. So it must be thought carefully. Ermal Hasime's proposal by Agron Shehaj is not an offer that convinces the DP to run, but it is a signal of fear for them, that if they boycott the elections, he could be the candidate of the rest of the opposition, relativizing the power of the DP. In this case, Hasime is more of a blackmail candidate on the DP than an offer for the DP that of course it does not accept. If the DP manages to accept Ermal Hasime, then we must accept that something important is changing in Berisha. But this is an impossible event. He has not even been able to endure six months in the cabinet, let alone endure four years as a candidate.
Therefore, all this tension around the President's decree, his appeal to the Constitutional Court, the possibility of suspension by the Court or not, is not related at all to Veliaj's fate, but to the predicament he was in with his dismissal from the Socialist Party and the President. Veliaj has the path open to go to Strasbourg with the appeal process after the Constitutional Court, reviewing the measure of detention, but he has simply left the rope out for those who buried him.
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