Constitutional chairwoman committed legal violations, assembly cancels competition

The illegal involvement of Constitutional Court President Arta Rama-Hajrizi in the process of electing a judge of the same court has led the Parliament to turn the process to zero Tuesday, Koha Ditore writes today.

Rama-Hajriz had hidden the decision from the conflict of interest stemming from the fact that she had relatives of one of the candidates in the race for a member of the Constitutional.

The Assembly has returned the process from the first day the “Koha Ditore” reported this legal offense situation.

The special commission for reviewing candidates for Constitutional Court judges in today's meeting unanimously ruled that, in the functioning of the process, the entire procedure for selecting a candidate for judge of this court will be returned from the beginning”, a brief information of the Parliament is said. The “Commission decided that the re-publishment of the call/off for election of the judge's candidate to take place on December 14th 2017<3>.