TWO JUDGES RESIGN FROM CONSTITUTIONAL COURT
admin1 – October 31, 2007 – 1:54pm

Constitutional CourtThe Constitutional Court lost its legitimacy after court President Mahmut Jusufi and judge Bajram Polozhani submitted irrevocable resignations, constitutional law experts assessed.

These two judges submitted their resignations yesterday following the controversial decision of the majority of the Constitutional Court judges concerning the use of the ethnic communities' flags.

Experts say that without these two judges and without judge Mirjana Lazarova-Trajkovska, who will start her mandate in the Human Rights Tribunal in Strasbourg next year, the Constitutional Court will no longer have legitimacy in the adoption of significant decisions. All decisions will be adopted by six instead of nine judges.