TIRANA, June 24/ATA/- The Electoral College in Albania voted in favor of holding local elections on June 30, rejecting the decree of President Ilir Meta who decided to cancel election date.
Five judges of the Electoral College rejected unanimously the request of the National Unity Party, a small political party which had asked to deregister from elections based on the president’s decision, and declared that the party must take part in Sunday’s vote.
The judges declared that the local elections will take place on June 30.
Electoral College, consisting of Astrit Kalaja, Ridvan Hado, Tomor Skerli, Artur Malaj and Lindita Sinanaj issued the CEC decision, announcing that, the President’s Meta decree on the cancellation of local elections is illegal and the elections will be held on June 30.
The court upheld the petition by the Central Electoral College (CEC), which called Meta’s decree invalid ”because it violated the constitution”.
At the end of the Monday’s session the Electoral College of the Court of Appeals decided to reject the President’s decision to abolish the elections, and came down in favor of putting into effect the CEC decision to hold the elections on June 30.//a.i/
