Lawyer Berisha: Etem Arifi's vote is being used as a pretext for going to the polls

In his view of such a practice, everything has been clear until 2017, when the Supreme Court had made a decision.

“Supreme Court had decided on the “Zefir Berisha” case against P ZAP. It was the CEC that made the filter before someone received the blessing of this institution as elector or chosen. The Supreme Court has found that no one can be deprived of the right to choose and be elected. If the standards were applied according to Article 29 half of the deputies today would not be the ones to come out for a vote. This has changed as a result of a decision by the Supreme Court”, Berisha has said in Klan Kosova.

“Today we had an exhausted debate, and finally the common denominator of the petitioner was: The country must go to the polls. All the noise on behalf of Eem Arifi came out with one request: the country goes to the polls, because we don't know any other way they said”.

Political difficulties can not always be put into judicial decisions. We failed to ensure the election process are saying, we are now using Etem Arifi as a pretext. Etem Arfii is an example of the reality of many others”.

According to Berisha, the Constitution receives the mandate to each MP, who is sentenced to a formal form with over a year's period of time.

There is no logic to pretend it was legal until the day he voted, but his vote is invalid”.

The granting of the mandate envisions its non-principle with over six months without reason. The procedure for receiving Arifi's mandate has not been initiated to this day. He pays his salary even though he's in jail”, he says.