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Greek media: Fredi Beleri receives permission to be sworn in as an MEP, leaves for Strasbourg on Monday
2024-07-12 16:41:55 / POLITIKË
The Greek media "Protothema" announced in an article that the former mayor of Himara, Fredi Beleri, has secured permission to go to Strasburg and take his oath as a member of the European Parliament.
The article states that Beler will leave Monday morning for Athens, which will be an intermediate stop, and then from Athens will fly to Strasbourg.
" After pressure and opposition from the Albanian authorities, Fredi Beleri received permission to go to Strasbourg and be sworn in as a member of the European Parliament. He will fly on Monday morning to Athens, which will be a stopover intermediate and from Athens he will go to Strasbourg. He is expected to arrive in Eleftherios Venizelos at 12.30.
We recall that in May 2023, two days before the self-governing elections in Albania, where he was a candidate for mayor in Himara, Beleri was arrested on the charge of vote buying. The Vlora court, where he was referred by the district prosecutor, declared that it had no jurisdiction over the case and sent it to the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecution, while Beleris remained in custody. On May 14, Beleris was elected mayor of Himara, with him in custody.
In the same month, Ylli Manjani, Minister of Justice of Albania from 2015-2017, denounced the government of Edi Rama for the arrest of Beler, calling it a "fiasco" and "interference in free elections".
On March 5, 2024, the SPAK special court found Beler and his accomplice Pandeli Kokavesh guilty. The court sentenced Beleri to two years in prison and Kokaveshi to 18 months with a three-year suspension," says the Protothema article. There is still no reaction from the Fier prison directorate regarding the permission granted to Beleri.
Beleri is one of the MEPs of "New Democracy", the party of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in the European Parliament, part of the EPP grouping. Beleri will remain in prison until October, after the decision of the Court of Appeal of the Special Court Against Corruption in Albania, which tried his case at the second instance in Tirana. The court decided to uphold the original sentence of 24 months. He was convicted in both the first and second degree of active corruption. If the appeal decision reduces his sentence to 20 months or less, then he would be released immediately.
Meanwhile, on July 5, Beleri was dismissed as the elected mayor of Himara, after the CEC decided to remove his mandate. That day, Beleri, present at the meeting, as well as his defenders, supported the idea that the Central Election Commission could not comment on this case, without a Government decision dismissing him from office. But according to the head of the CEC, Ilirjan Celibashi, the decision was based on the so-called Decriminalization Law. With urgency, the Government then demanded the announcement of new elections in Himara, by the president, who also quickly decreed August 4 as the day of voting.
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