{"id":31675,"date":"2022-02-17T13:41:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T12:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=31675"},"modified":"2022-02-17T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T12:49:09","slug":"who-were-the-6-judges-who-voted-against-metas-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/who-were-the-6-judges-who-voted-against-metas-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Who were the 6 judges who voted against Meta\u2019s impeachment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six judges of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gjk.gov.al\/web\/Constitutional_Court_1_2.php\">Constitutional Court<\/a> <\/strong>voted against president Ilir Meta\u2019s impeachment \u2013 a case that was brought to court at the request of the Albanian Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, only one judge voted in favor of president Meta\u2019s dismissal from all public functions.<\/p>\n<p>The members of the Constitutional Court who voted against Meta\u2019s impeachment were the following: Vitore Tusha, Elsa Toska, Marsida Xhaferllari, Fiona Papajorgji, Perparim Kalo and Sonila Bejtja.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas, judge Altin Binaj was the only one who voted in favor of this dismissal.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31087\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31087\" style=\"width: 902px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-31087\" src=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Gjykata-1-1024x683-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"902\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Gjykata-1-1024x683-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Gjykata-1-1024x683-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Gjykata-1-1024x683-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Gjykata-1-1024x683-1-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Gjykata-1-1024x683-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judicial panel at the Constitutional Court \/ LSA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/02\/16\/constitutional-court-overturns-parliaments-decision-to-impeach-president-meta\/\">final ruling<\/a><\/strong> issued by the Constitutional Court, judges overturned the parliament\u2019s claims that president Meta\u2019s public statements and behavior \u2013 especially during the electoral campaign in April 2019 \u2013 weren\u2019t in unison with the thoughts and sentiments of the general public.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Court also overturned the parliament\u2019s claims that Meta violated Albania\u2019s relations with our strategic partners through his actions as president.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the Parliament\u2019s other claims that president Meta put public safety at risk, while also risking the autonomy of our government institutions, were overturned through a court statement which explained that arguments to prove this, were insufficient.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/president.al\/en\/\">briefing room<\/a><\/strong> at the President\u2019s Office released a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=10159779461817760&amp;id=803702759\">statement<\/a> <\/strong>shortly after last night&#8217;s court ruling, claiming that this came as no surprise, going as far as saying that the trial against president Meta was a waste of time and resources and that it should have never even started in the first place.<\/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\/2022\/02\/16\/constitutional-court-overturns-parliaments-decision-to-impeach-president-meta\/\">Constitutional Court overturns parliament\u2019s decision to impeach President Meta<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/02\/01\/what-happens-if-president-meta-is-impeached-today\/\">What happens if President Meta is impeached?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/02\/07\/constitutional-to-examine-final-ruling-on-metas-impeachment-trial\/\">Constitutional to examine final ruling on Meta\u2019s impeachment trial<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six judges of the Constitutional Court voted against president Ilir Meta\u2019s impeachment \u2013 a case that was brought to court at the request of the Albanian Parliament. In addition, only one judge voted in favor of president Meta\u2019s dismissal from all public functions. The members of the Constitutional Court who voted against Meta\u2019s impeachment were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":31676,"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>Who were the 6 judges who voted against Meta\u2019s impeachment? - 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\/who-were-the-6-judges-who-voted-against-metas-impeachment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Who were the 6 judges who voted against Meta\u2019s impeachment? - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Six judges of the Constitutional Court voted against president Ilir Meta\u2019s impeachment \u2013 a case that was brought to court at the request of the Albanian Parliament. 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