In a press conference held today, president Ilir Meta invited the people to protest on March 2, on the main boulevard of Tirana outside Prime Minister Edi Rama’s office.
Though he sidestepped questions regarding a possible dismissal of the parliament, Meta declared that on March 2 he would sign a decree against what he called a “coup d’etat” on the part of the Rama government. He called the upcoming protest a “covenant” that would “destroy the oligarchic regime that has intentionally infringed on the people’s sovereignty and intends to depopulate the country and transform it into an operational base for organised crime and money laundering.”
Meta’s statement comes as a result of legal changes passed by the Socialist ruled parliament that would remove jurisdictional power over constitutional judges from the president’s hands, by erasing a provision that requires Constitutional Court members to swear in before the President of the Republic.
