The head of the DP parliamentary group, Gazment Bardhi, has reacted after the refusal of the Speaker of the Assembly, Niko Peleshi, for the opposition to participate in the process related to the mandates of the members of the Constitutional Court. Bardhi accuses Peleshi of having set a new standard, by treating this issue as the exclusive competence of the majority, without including the opposition. According to him, this is a serious violation of parliamentary practices and the constitutional order.
He emphasizes that while Peles' predecessors have treated these issues as a shared responsibility of the Assembly, Peles is acting unilaterally, excluding the opposition from the right to express opinions and institutional positions. Bardhi criticizes Peles' signing of documents without fully understanding their content and underlines that representation in the Constitutional Court can also be done through sending a written opinion. According to him, this position of Peles is a dangerous precedent that violates the integrity of the Assembly.
Finally, Bardhi calls on Pelesh to reconsider the decision and ensure broader parliamentary cooperation on issues related to the Constitutional Court. He underlines that the exclusion of the opposition from this process is an unprecedented violation and undermines trust in state institutions. The debate between the majority and the opposition on this topic is expected to intensify in the coming days.
Bardhi's full reaction:
Unlike his predecessors in the position of Speaker of the Assembly, who treated issues that are within the competence of the Assembly, in this case the mandates of the members of the Constitutional Court, as common issues of the entire Assembly and that should reflect the opinion of the entire Assembly, Niko Peleshi sets a new standard. For the Speaker of the Assembly, the mandates of the members of the Constitutional Court are a party-state issue, where the opposition cannot even have a role to say its word.
In addition to this, the Speaker of the Assembly continues to sign "state nonsense", without understanding what he is signing for and even less what he is using the seal of the highest institution of the state - the Assembly of Albania. According to him, representation in the Constitutional Court takes place only in public sessions and since there is no public session, there can be no representatives.
Someone should explain to them or, due to the high public position he has assumed, he himself should read and understand that representation in cases where the Constitutional Court has decided to hold a hearing on the basis of documents is achieved through the submission of a written opinion. Niko Peleshi decided that the opposition has no right to give an opinion, nor to express an opinion, nor to hold an institutional position on important issues of the state and that are directly related to the constitutional order. No one before him has dared to go to these levels.
