{"id":29762,"date":"2022-01-19T13:19:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=29762"},"modified":"2022-01-19T13:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:22:52","slug":"meta-begins-consultations-with-party-representatives-ahead-of-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/meta-begins-consultations-with-party-representatives-ahead-of-special-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta consults party representatives ahead of special election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Ilir Meta began consulting with representatives from the political parties that have agreed to participate in the country\u2019s special municipal elections.<\/p>\n<p>His first meeting today will be with the head of SP\u2019s parliamentary group, Taulant Balla.<\/p>\n<p>According to the general rule, the party\u2019s Secretary-General should have been present as well, but the person currently holding this function \u2013 Damian Gjiknuri \u2013 wasn\u2019t presented with a formal invitation by Meta.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Balla was invited instead.<\/p>\n<p>The following are the municipalities that will be running in these special local elections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vora;<\/li>\n<li>Dibra;<\/li>\n<li>Shkodra;<\/li>\n<li>Lushnja;<\/li>\n<li>Rrogozhina;<\/li>\n<li>Durr\u00ebsi;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the moment, these City Halls don\u2019t have an acting mayor who was elected by the district residents, but rather they have been appointed by the current administration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/shock\/2021\/12\/07\/contested-local-elections-bushati-talks-of-a-constitutional-vacuum-haxhiu-meta-is-helping-berisha\/\">Contested local elections, Bushati talks of a \u201cconstitutional vacuum\u201d, Haxhiu: Meta is helping Berisha<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/12\/02\/constitutional-court-says-contested-2019-local-elections-were-legitimate\/\">Constitutional Court says contested 2019 local elections were legitimate<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ilir Meta began consulting with representatives from the political parties that have agreed to participate in the country\u2019s special municipal elections. His first meeting today will be with the head of SP\u2019s parliamentary group, Taulant Balla. According to the general rule, the party\u2019s Secretary-General should have been present as well, but the person currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":29763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Meta consults party representatives ahead of special election - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/meta-begins-consultations-with-party-representatives-ahead-of-special-election\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meta consults party representatives ahead of special election - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Ilir Meta began consulting with representatives from the political parties that have agreed to participate in the country\u2019s special municipal elections. 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