TIRANA, May 16/ATA/ The Assembly convened today to hold the first round of voting for election of the new President of the Republic.
The session was chaired by Speaker of the Assembly Lindita Nikolla.
In the quality of the rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs, Public Administration and Human Rights, Klotilda Bushka said that the Committee considered in a special meeting the issues according to the agenda regarding the first round for election of the President.
“The committee concluded that no candidacy was submitted to the Assembly until the deadline set by the Conference of Chairmen. Under these circumstances, pursuant to Article 87, point 2 of the Constitution, which stipulates that the first round of voting takes place no more than 7 days from the beginning of the procedure for election of the President and the voting is considered completed even when no candidate is presented, it submits the report to the plenary session of the Assembly. Hence, I present the report and close the procedure of the first round for election of the President without a candidate”, she said.
Speaker of the Assembly Lindita Nikolla said that, “Based on the report of the Law Committee, the first round is considered completed. Hence, I call on the Conference of Chairmen to meet and set the date of the second round of voting for election of the President”. /a.a/p.s./
