(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
The Albanian parliament is set to fail to elect the new
president of the country for the third consecutive round as no
candidacy was presented in the parliament here on Sunday by 4 p.m.
local time, the deadline before the session in the parliament on
Monday, Trend reports citing Xinhua .
Lawmakers are scheduled to gather on Monday at a formal plenary
session which will start at 10 a.m. to discuss the possible
candidates, but none of the parliamentary groups in the parliament
has submitted so far any proposal for the name of the new
president.
The first two rounds for the election of the president,
scheduled for May 16 and May 23, both failed as no candidate was
proposed.
Since the start of the process, the ruling Socialist Party (SP)
has declared that the opposition parties will be given the right to
propose candidates for president in the first three rounds.
Taulant Balla, head of the SP parliamentary group, earlier said
that the opposition is not taking any responsibility to formally
propose candidacies.
Meanwhile, according to Enkelejd Alibeaj, the appointed leader
of the main opposition Democratic Party (DP), the election process
'should be conducted by consensus.'
According to the country's constitution, a proposed candidate
must receive a total 84 votes in the first three rounds in order to
be elected as president, but the ruling majority has only 74 seats
in the 140-seat parliament.
In the fourth and fifth rounds, a simple majority of 71 votes in
the parliament will be sufficient for the election of the new
president.
A total of signatures from 20 lawmakers are needed for the
nomination of an official candidate.
The mandate of the current President Ilir Meta ends in July this
year.
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