Bad blow for the Meloni executive.
The Albanian Constitutional Court has announced the suspension of parliamentary procedures for the approval of the agreement signed with Prime Minister Edi Rama on migrants, scheduled for tomorrow.
The Court was called into question by two appeals presented separately by the Albanian Democratic Party and 28 other deputies aligned alongside the former centre-right prime minister Sali Berish in which it is argued that the agreement violates the Constitution and the international conventions to which the Albania joins.
Parliamentary ratification of the agreement will be suspended until the Court issues a ruling, for which it has 3 months.
The President of the Court, Holta Zaçaj, explained that «the college of judges meeting today considered that the appeals presented comply with the required criteria, and decided to examine them in plenary session. This automatically means that the parliamentary procedures for ratifying the agreement are suspended until there is a ruling. According to Albanian legislation, the Constitutional Court should make a decision within three months from the date of submission of the appeal , therefore, by March 6th. The first session of the Court is scheduled for January 18th.
Sources at Palazzo Chigi say they do not wish to comment because it is a ruling from a constitutional court of a third country. At the same time it is underlined that there is no concern about any delays in the implementation of the Memorandum .
(Unioneonline/D)