Constitutional expert: Meta falls as president on July 24th if...

Newly elected President Ilir Meta is expected to take the oath on 24 July, at an extraordinary session.

There is a scenario for Socialist MPs to boycott the extraordinary session, jeopardising the newly elected president's oath.

But what if Ilir Meta cannot take the oath on July 24th?

Juris Sokol Hazizaj, in a proposal for the newspaper “Today,” explains that Ilir Meta cannot take office in the president if the session is boycotted.

Hazizaj says parliament is tasked with carrying out its constitutional post for realising the president's oath.

“If the Assembly does not meet to carry out or consume the formal act in accordance with the Constitution for the oath, the purpose of the elected president's mandate is hindered.

Constitutional provisions really interrupt the existing president's mandate, leaving the vacuum through the formal oath act, thus preventing the president from performing formal oath, but today we are ahead of another nature”, Hazizaj said.

He stresses that the president's figure stands on the sides, and the Assembly also has moral and institutional obligation to meet for the oath of the newly elected president.

“Under these conditions, I don't think there's much time and space left for the Parliament not to consume its task, presence and existence of the oath.

Second, the act of swearing to the president who is equivalent to the beginning of his mandate is not only an act of the republic's president as institutional and constitutional position, but is an act of representation of a larger symbol representing the Assembly of various political subjects.

The president's figure exceeds the authority of the Parliament because it results in unity because of the predictions in the Constitution.

Under these conditions, I don't think the Assembly will be capable of exercising its own license to recognise institutions. Do not exercise a license through presence in the oath, it is nothing but the beginning of conflict not with the president but worse than the president, with the unitary representation of the Albanian nation”He said Hazizaj.

If in some straight sessions the newly elected president fails to take the oath, the head of the Parliament exercises the powers of the president of the Republic until the new head of state is elected.

Jury Hazizaj explains that Ilir Meta himself in the quality of the Parliament leader until September plays the president.

In September, the new Parliament receives mandate. The Speaker of the Assembly will be Gramoz Ruchi.

Sokol Hazizaj says it is then up to Ruci to take over the powers of the head of state until the first procedures are launched for the election of the new president.

“Due to the interruption of the current president's mandate in the 24th and in the event of formal nonconfirming the new president's oath, Meta exercises the office of president as speaker of the Parliament. The constitution has envisioned cases of interruption of the mandate and cases of the end of the mandate of the mandated presidents due to the oath and elected by the Parliament earlier.

Gramoz Ruci is tapped as head of the Parliament's new mandate, which begins in September. In the concrete case when the republic's president comes as Parliament chairman, the task is exercised by the end of this mandate in September with the Speaker or deputy head of the Parliament. The new president after the oath date is entitled to the signing date of the Assembly meeting. If he doesn't exercise the task, it's anything else”Hazizaj said.