Law Making Citizens’ Initiatives and the Constitutional Law in Albania (Legislation, jurisprudence, practice)
Journal Title: Krytyka Prawa. Niezależne studia nad prawem - Year 2014, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
The constitutionalization of the referendum and law making citizens’ initiatives makes them important institutions and also important tools for exercising direct democracy. The question that arises today is the effective usage of these tools, in the framework of enhancing the direct participation of the citizens in the governance. Particularly, in countries like Albania, which represents one of the newest democracies established after the fall of the Communist regime in Europe, the exercising of these instruments encounters different challenges, coming up especially due to lack of traditions and practices in exercising direct democracy, legislation vacuum and the insufficiency of organizational experiences of the civil society. Nevertheless, some experiences in particular are achieved in the last 15 years, after the current Constitution of the Republic of Albania was enacted. These experiences will become the object of study in this paper. Out of the direct democracy instruments that are sanctioned in the Constitution of the Republic of Albania, this paper will focus only upon the law making citizens’ initiative and on the abrogative referendum initiative, as well. Legislation, jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court and some other issues identified through the experiences established in Albania will be treated in this paper. These experiences are analyzed in a comparative point of view with the experiences of other countries, particularly Italy. Thus, this paper is aiming to issue helpful conclusions and lessons related to the development and materialisation of direct democracy institutions, in Albania.
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Aurela Anastasi
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