Dehari Calls for Political Agreement: Resuming the Assembly Session Would Be Merely Ceremonial

Acting Speaker of the Assembly Avni Dehari has criticized the opposition parties’ stance on the process of constituting the Assembly. He recalled that the deadline set by the Constitutional Court was also exceeded last year without the institution being constituted.

In a Facebook post, Dehari said the current deadlock cannot be resolved by repeatedly convening sessions that produce no results. According to him, the way out of the impasse lies in a political agreement among the parliamentary parties, “Bota Sot” reports.

He said that as soon as there are signs of an agreement that would enable the establishment of the institutions and avert elections, resuming the constitutive session would simply be a ceremonial formality.

Dehari recalled that on June 26, 2025, the Constitutional Court reiterated its requirement that the Assembly be constituted within 30 days. Under judgment KO124/25, this period began on the date the judgment was published.

Based on that decision, the Assembly should have been constituted by July 26, 2025, at the latest. However, even after the expiry of this new 30-day deadline set by the Constitutional Court—namely, by July 26, 2025—the Assembly had still not been constituted.

The Acting Speaker said that whenever he called on opposition MPs last year to vote to constitute the Assembly and not allow the constitutional deadline to be exceeded, their response was that “a political agreement is needed.” According to him, exceeding the deadline was not raised as an issue at the time, while the Constitutional Court, through subsequent judgments on the constitution of the Assembly, instructed the parties to continue their efforts to constitute it despite the deadline having expired, because the need to constitute the Assembly took precedence over the deadline.

Following the December 28 elections, the opposition parties made their demand clearer, insisting that a political agreement had to be reached before the institutions were formed; otherwise, the country would go to elections.

Dehari stressed that further inconclusive sessions could be convened, but these would only irritate citizens. However, based on the experience of the past two legislatures, he said the only way to establish stable institutions and avert elections is to reach a political agreement among the parliamentary parties.

According to him, as soon as there are signs of an agreement guaranteeing the formation of all institutions and the avoidance of elections, in line with the Constitutional Court’s requirements in its judgments last year, convening a continuation of the constitutive session would amount to nothing more than a ceremonial act. Dehari recalled that the Court had called on the parties to reach an agreement rather than continue with unsuccessful attempts.