The Historic Mission of the Constituent Assembly to Determine the Form of Government

Abstract

The Lushnja Congress had decided that the form of government of Albania would be decided by a Constituent Assembly, which should be formed by free elections, after the borders of Albania were determined by the International Border Commissions. This thesis was one of the issues discussed in the National Council during the discussion of the Extended Statute of Lushnja. On that occasion, MP Hilë Mosi said that Albania could not stay in that form of government, republic or monarchy for a long time. Therefore, the elections for the Constituent Assembly had to be organized. Prime Minister Sulejman Delvina resigned because the High Council and the National Council did not accept that the elections be held for the Constituent Assembly, but for the parliamentary elections. Prime Ministers Iliaz Vrioni and Xhafer Ypi also made commitments to organize the elections, but they remained only promises. The election was organized by Prime Minister Ahmet Zogu in December 1923. The Constituent Assembly began work in January 1924, but the assembly failed to approve Albania's constitution and the country was engulfed in a political movement called the June Democratic Revolution in political history. End of the political institutions created in a democratic way by the Congress of Lushnja.