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The dismissal of Mayor Erion Veliaj is being discussed at the Tirana City Council meeting.
Regarding this, former prosecutor Eugen Beci said that a person who is under indictment should be heard.
He said that even in his absence, it is now practical to present the counterarguments of the person under indictment in writing, but this is in violation of the process.
' Referring to jurisprudence, the person's counter-arguments must be heard. Today, as we speak, there is a practice. The Supreme Court, with the amendments to the legislation, has introduced the spirit that the counter-arguments you have against an accusation can be made in writing without the person physically appearing. Is the presentation of counter-arguments in writing a due process of law? In this case, if the case goes to trial, will I call it an irregular legal process?
"The submission of written counter-arguments constitutes a violation of the process. He may have his last day today, that chairman, but I hope that the councilors think that precedents are dangerous so that they are not dismissed so simply and so easily. That a person, even if you sentence him to life imprisonment, you are obliged to listen to him because he will give his counter-arguments," he said.
Beci said that in this case Veliaj could not report to duty due to isolation and not because he did not want to.
'We have cases where MPs have not appeared in the Assembly for 6 months due to security measures, the case of Berisha, and here we are in a position to discuss this, that a mayor if he does not go to work for reasons that are unjustified, or when we have objective reasons that make it impossible to exercise his duty for 3 months in a row. We cannot say that you could not come to work because you were put in prison. This point of the law is debatable,' he told Frontline.
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