{"id":30282,"date":"2022-01-26T21:34:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T20:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=30282"},"modified":"2022-01-26T21:41:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T20:41:28","slug":"meta-i-wont-show-up-for-my-impeachment-hearing-at-the-constitutional-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/meta-i-wont-show-up-for-my-impeachment-hearing-at-the-constitutional-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta: I won\u2019t show up for my impeachment hearing at the Constitutional Court \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Meta declared that he won\u2019t be participating in his impeachment hearing set to take place on February 1, at the Constitutional Court.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Meta argued that he doesn\u2019t trust the Constitutional, which according to him, hasn\u2019t responded to the Venice Commission on the issue of the disputed local elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going before a court, which doesn\u2019t give a rightful answer when it comes to the disputed local elections and which has yet to respond to the Venice Commission on this crucial issue,\u201d \u2013 said Meta.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the president stated that the greatest concern for Albanian citizens isn\u2019t whether or not he gets impeached, but rather, whether or not their local elections were legitimate.<\/p>\n<p>During his interview on &#8216;NOW&#8217;, Meta affirmed that if the Constitutional does end up ruling in favor of his impeachment, he will be appealing his case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They can impeach me, I have no issue with it,&#8221; &#8211; said Meta, adding that he will be filing an appeal at a higher European court, but didn&#8217;t specify which court that would be.<\/p>\n<p>Even though he won&#8217;t be present during his impeachment hearing, Meta said that he isn&#8217;t planning to boycott the court session, but will be sending his legal representatives instead.<\/p>\n<p>Ilir Meta was impeached following a Parliament vote on June 9, 2021, which voted 104 votes in favor to 7 against and 3 abstentions.<\/p>\n<p>On February 1, the Constitutional Court is expected to issue an official verdict on the president\u2019s impeachment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/06\/10\/old-politics-should-step-aside-david-phillips-analyzes-ilir-metas-impeachment\/\">\u2018Old politics should step aside\u2019, David Phillips analyzes Ilir Meta\u2019s impeachment<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/06\/03\/president-metas-impeachment-heres-how-votes-from-mps-will-be-distributed-on-june-9th\/\">President Meta\u2019s impeachment, here\u2019s how votes from MPs will be distributed on June 9th<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/05\/11\/what-are-the-steps-to-impeach-a-president-in-albania\/\">Impeachment of President Meta: Here\u2019s how the process works<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"eneu15438\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"eneu15028\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Meta declared that he won\u2019t be participating in his impeachment hearing set to take place on February 1, at the Constitutional Court. In addition, Meta argued that he doesn\u2019t trust the Constitutional, which according to him, hasn\u2019t responded to the Venice Commission on the issue of the disputed local elections. \u201cI\u2019m not going before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":30284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[150,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Meta: I won\u2019t show up for my impeachment hearing at the Constitutional Court \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 - 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-i-wont-show-up-for-my-impeachment-hearing-at-the-constitutional-court\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meta: I won\u2019t show up for my impeachment hearing at the Constitutional Court \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Meta declared that he won\u2019t be participating in his impeachment hearing set to take place on February 1, at the Constitutional Court. 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