Parliament, SP-DP mistrust

“Vote is a decision of the conscience, a constitutional obligation. Different to the reforms that were needed for removing visas, which could be made possible only with the votes of the majority, the new ones also need the votes of the opposition. The words should be turned into deeds, the voting of the 12 recommendations is an obligation towards the country, and this doesn’t require conditions or bargains”, Topalli declared.

But for the opposition, which emphasized through the speech of Mr. Ruci its commitment for voting the country’s integration, Albania cannot progress with Sali Berisha as a Prime Minister. Berisha was accused as the man who organized the vote stealing in Tirana.

“After these elections, justice is more submitted than before. The country is farther from Europe, and all of us are more behind, because you have reached the bottom, from which there is only one solution: go! The opposition has won, the Socialist Party has won, Edi Rama has won. We won Tirana, the capital of all Albanians, but above all we have unmasked you in front of all Albanians, showing you as you really are: thief and corrupted”, Ruçi declared.

Describing the past two years of the government with very pessimist tones, Ruci declared that the only alternative of this country was the opposition.

“The Albanian opposition is committed not only to show your real face, full of greed and corruption, but is ready to continue Albania’s alternative of the new century. We are ready to give the Albanians the leadership they deserve, resolving their problems as they deserve. You lack the knowledge, the will and the legitimacy for achieving it”, Ruci added.

Prime Minister Berisha made only a short comment as response to Ruci.

“This was the lament of a deserved defeat. In our ancient tradition, the only things that are not commented after are laments and the cries”, Berisha declared.

After listing as achievements what the Socialist Party had just mentioned as failures, Berisha emphasized his success with the reforms in the last two years.

He invited the opposition to vote the law for removing immunity, not only as a testimony for the will to fight corruption, but also as one of EU’s 12 agreements.

The Prime Minister invited the opposition to give its expertise and cooperate for the important reforms in education, health and pensions.

“I invite you to assign the criteria, the standards, but not to anathematize them. Nothing can be resolved with anathema. Nihilism is a fanatic doctrine, totally worthless and we must never forget that the nihilist always has a deep hate for what he believes. The reforms involve all areas. Maybe the road of solitude prevented you from seeing it. I wish to leave that road, and I guarantee our strong will for cooperating”, Berisha declared.

Both parties expressed their readiness to start working for the electoral reform, another recommendation of the EU. But it seems that the opposition wants to go deeper than the Prime Minister, who is ready to make any kind of concession, with the Commission of Venice and OSCE-ODIHR, only for the amends of the OSCE-ODIHR report.

Berisha: I guarantee that the majority is determined to cooperate for turning each of these recommendations into laws and decisions.

Ruci: The electoral reform cannot be enough only with some technical amends for the code, but it must guarantee real free and honest elections, far from the state manipulators. We must return the missing legitimacy to the Central Election Commission. With the CEC and the Electoral College that we have today, the same that destroyed the local elections with your order, with Ristani, Sashenka and Tomi, there can be no elections in Albania.

In this climate, which doesn’t seem favoring wide political consensus, there was a voice that repeated the request of the US ambassador for a national pact. And this voice came from the leader of the Socialist Movement for Integration, Ilir Meta.

“I propose all Parliamentary Groups of the majority and opposition to gather and assign the calendar of all actions that must be taken until the EU opinion for Albania, which must include this agreement, this pact, the approval of all laws that are related with the 12 priorities, prioritizing the electoral reforms, and to reflect for the recent OSCE-ODIHR recommendations on May 8thlocal elections”, Meta declared.

The proposition of Mr. Meta doesn’t seem to be realized soon, but if the promises will be kept by the Democrats who talk about starting a new chapter and the Socialists about a new course, everything might be realized.

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