{"id":30488,"date":"2022-01-29T17:08:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T16:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=30488"},"modified":"2022-01-29T17:27:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T16:27:44","slug":"president-meta-writes-to-constitutional-court-ahead-of-potential-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/president-meta-writes-to-constitutional-court-ahead-of-potential-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"President Meta addresses Constitutional Court ahead of impeachment ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albanian President Ilir Meta addressed a letter to the Constitutional Court ahead of its decision on his impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>Meta wants the court to provide evidence of how it came to choose the judge that took over his impeachment from the parliament.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Meta outlined three points to the Constitutional Court, starting from the decision to suspend the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Meta seeks an explanation over the \u2018expiration of a 3-month legal deadline to oversee the case\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview for Euronews Albania, President Meta <a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/now\/2022\/01\/26\/meta-i-wont-show-up-for-my-impeachment-hearing-at-the-constitutional-court\/\">said<\/a> he would appeal the case if the court upholds the parliament\u2019s decision on his impeachment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30490\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30490\" src=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Meta-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Meta-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Meta-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Meta-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Meta-1-150x84.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Meta-1-696x392.jpeg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Ilir Meta on Now with Erla Mehilli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cLet them discharge me. I have no problem with that\u201d, said Meta, threatening to bring his case to a European court, although without making any specifications.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitutional Court will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gjk.gov.al\/web\/NJOFTIM_PER_SHTYP_2189_1.php\">announce<\/a> its decision on February 1.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the court was supposed to have its say on 18 January, but the case got postponed as one of the judges was diagnosed with COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The Albanian president was impeached by the parliament on June 9 after he overturned a decree on the date of the local elections.<\/p>\n<p>Socialist lawmakers claimed at the time that the president had \u201cflagrantly infringed the Constitution\u2019 and that his \u201cacts, behavior and messages conveyed failed to guarantee national unity\u201d and incited violent riots led by party militants which \u201cterrorized citizens and limited their freedoms\u201d.<\/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\/now\/2022\/01\/26\/meta-i-wont-show-up-for-my-impeachment-hearing-at-the-constitutional-court\/\">Meta: I won\u2019t show up for my impeachment hearing at the Constitutional Court <\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albanian President Ilir Meta addressed a letter to the Constitutional Court ahead of its decision on his impeachment. Meta wants the court to provide evidence of how it came to choose the judge that took over his impeachment from the parliament. In addition, Meta outlined three points to the Constitutional Court, starting from the decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":30489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[270,365,366,388,390,150,151,389],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>President Meta addresses Constitutional Court ahead of impeachment ruling - 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\/president-meta-writes-to-constitutional-court-ahead-of-potential-impeachment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President Meta addresses Constitutional Court ahead of impeachment ruling - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Albanian President Ilir Meta addressed a letter to the Constitutional Court ahead of its decision on his impeachment. 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