FLASH
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So this story has shamed all state and justice institutions, the government and the opposition, who all got involved in an absurd battle...
The constitutional debate about bypassing the Constitutional Court in the procedure for Veliaj's dismissal is important only for the state, not for Veliaj. Veliaj is interested in speeding up the procedure towards the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights to appeal his detention and in this specific case also the violations in his dismissal.
Therefore, the debates over Veliaj's dismissal should be separated from Veliaj's legal interests in this process.
Erion Veliaj is not running for mayor. That position was stolen from him through a political action, in which SPAK, the opposition, and segments of the Socialist Party itself were involved with full awareness and even zeal, creating a dangerous precedent in Albania, that you can steal an elected official from office and then, through a controversial constitutional procedure, legitimize the theft of his position.
But for him, this is a matter that is over. The only ones who should worry about this are those who are still elected.
He is the defendant. And his interest is to expose the fabrication of the charges and have them dismissed, at least in Strasbourg, in conditions when trust in our new justice system has fallen to worse levels than it was in the old justice system.
Now any battle between institutions in this regard will make the state even more ridiculous. The point is, imagine the two scenarios of the Constitutional Court:
– The first scenario that it dismisses Erion Veliaj, thus legitimizing the dismissal. After this, a precedent is created that any mayor can be detained on a fabricated charge, as the case of the Italian in the denunciation of Veliaj proved, and then he is arrested for 3 months and flees from office.
– If we take the other scenario that the Constitutional Court does not dismiss Veliaj. Then we will have two mayors, one elected on November 9 and Erion Veliaj not dismissed. Of course, in this case, the one elected on November 9 will remain, after we have called on the people to vote again, while we must give Veliaj his salary until 2027. As we did with Arben Rakipi or Dhori Sollaku when they were dismissed unconstitutionally.
The opposition is also in a ridiculous position. They call President Begaj's decree on the date of the elections in Tirana unconstitutional, but they themselves voted to dismiss Veliaj in the Municipal Council. Of course, they did not commit any constitutional violation by voting, as they expressed their political will, but if the process, according to them, has been taken in an unconstitutional direction, then they are in a difficult position regarding participation in the elections in Tirana.
If they boycott the elections in Tirana, they will be called cowards, and if they participate, they will be called certifiers of the violation of the Constitution, and the statements they are making today seem banal.
The only one who comes out of this story with more dignity is the victim of this process, Erion Veliaj. He has simply been victimized more in this entire political process against him, from the fabrication of accusations, the invention of false witnesses, the payments for rallies in front of his office, the arrest without charge, the dismissal after they arrested him and now this constitutional debate about new elections. In this entire story, he has only served as a reason for everyone to make mistakes by violating the Criminal Code, the Criminal Procedure Code, the independence of local government and ultimately the Constitution. If there were a death penalty, it would make their job easier.
But I actually hope they made it easier for him. Of course, I have in mind the European Court of Human Rights. If there were normal courts here, he should be released tomorrow in the Supreme Court, because as of today he is officially no longer mayor, since the electoral campaign has been announced and all the reasons for his arrest have disappeared.
But the three who are judging him are part of the new "justice", which is a mixture of the Republic of Prosecutors with corrupt politicians.
If before we had a Constitutional Republic with a corrupt judiciary, now we have a Republic of prosecutors with corrupt politicians who have handed over the republic out of fear for their future, involving them in political decisions and devaluing the citizens' vote.
So this story has shamed all the state and justice institutions, the government and the opposition, who all got involved in an absurd battle, without any major reason, just to necessarily take over the post of mayor of Tirana for 45 days, after having detained the mayor without charge. They can be proud that they achieved it: Tired, but proud!
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