The vote on the salary increase of the judges of the Constitutional Court was postponed at the request of the Socialist Party.
The request in the Assembly was submitted by the leader of the SP group, Bledi Çuçi. The vote on the law "on the organization and functioning of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Albania", which provides for the increase in the salary of the judges of this institution, has been postponed for the umpteenth time.
The Socialists could not get the 85 votes required for this bill.
The draft law provides that the salary of the judge of the Constitutional Court should be equal to the salary of the President of the Supreme Court. With the proposed changes, the salary now becomes 96% of the president's salary, plus 58% extra due to the special nature of the work. So the salary of the member of the Constitutional Court becomes 644 thousand ALL.
While the head of the Court has an additional 20% due to his position and his salary reaches 773 thousand ALL.