Presidency has published the criminal indictment filed by President of the Republic, Ilir Meta against the Assembly of Albania.

In the introduction, the Head of State Has underlined that the gathering of the Assembly in plenary session on May 7, 2021 and the setting of the plenary agenda of this session, was determined by order no. 19, dated 6.5.2021 of the Speaker of the Assembly, i.e. only one day before the plenary session, which is contrary to the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly.

Rules of Procedure of the Assembly provided that the order and the issue under consideration cannot be notified to the Members of Parliament later than 48 hours before the holding of the scheduled session, added the President’s indictment.

Another serious violation by the Assembly was the fact that on May 7, 2021, the Assembly in addition to Decision no. 44/2021, dated 7.5.2021, "On the approval of the report and proposal of the Committee on Legal Affairs, Public Administration and Human Rights ‘On the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry based on the request of a group of MPs for the impeachment of the President of Republic’”, took another decision, specifically Decision no. 45/2021, dated 7.5.2021, "On the establishment of the Commission of Inquiry of the Assembly ‘On the investigation of serious constitutional violations by the President of the Republic of Albania’", which was not defined in the agenda that the Speaker of the Assembly had set, argued the Presidency.

Furthermore, the Albanian Parliament has also consumed two other flagrant violations of the articles of the Rules of Procedure has underlined the President:

“1. The Assembly or commissions cannot discuss and decide on issues that are not on the agenda of the session.

2. To discuss, or decide in plenary session on issues that are not on the agenda, the Assembly takes a decision with the approval of not less than three-fifths of the MPs who are present. Proposals for putting other issues on the agenda must be submitted in writing by at least 10 MPs, by a parliamentary group chair or by the Council of Ministers only before the beginning of the session, before the beginning of the discussion of an agenda item or when the discussion is suspended. In cases when the request is not made by the parliamentary group, the request is submitted by one MP and the support group of MPs stands up".

Full criminal indictment filed by the President of the Republic against the Assembly of Albania below:

https://president.al/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/REPUBLIC-OF-ALBANIA-indictment-last.pdf