Election College: President can neither change nor abolish election date

The Electoral College says specifically that the president's second decree abolishing the decree of November 5th 2018 is an absolutely invalid act. The college subject also refers to the competencies the president has in terms of setting the date of elections, under predictions that the Electoral Code appoints on deadlines and election period. So notes the College in the absence of a legally expressed partnership, any other competence conflicts with the Constitution.

Based on the CEC's stance, the College further appreciates that decree must be made no later than nine months, and that is why the president has limited competence beyond that time. So the ongoing emphasis, the president can neither change nor abolish the election date, so the second decree is considered in open and flagrant violation with the Administrative Code. The college stresses that only the law could allow the president to abolish the date of elections as it happened in 2007, when the Parliament was forced to change the Electoral Code to enable something like that. Following these college arguments, he considers that the president of the Republic through the annulment of the election date has obtained the powers of the Parliament. Election College judges go further, saying that with the annulment of the date that Albanian citizens are denied the right to vote based on the Venice Commission's practices, but also on the basic principles of European electoral heritage.