Rama invites opposition to Parliament: “Vetting, a condition for EU negotiations”

23/02/2017 00:00

The Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, accused the opposition of
starting a protest to block the vetting law, a process that is supposed
to start next week in the Parliament.

Rama said that the Vetting Law is the only condition for starting the negotiations with the EU.

“The vetting procedures start next week, and the PD is saying they want to do the vetting, because they don’t agree with this one. We cannot have two or three vetting laws. It should be clear for them, for us and for the international partners”, Rama said.

The Prime Minister said that they have started the technical negotiations with the European Commission for chapters 23 and 24. He says that the comparison that the opposition makes with the protests he made when in opposition, are unfounded.

The European Commission, the European Council too, have been very clear that they need the Vetting law. They didn’t say “end the vetting”, but “start the vetting”.

Rama invited the opposition to dialogue for the standards of the June elections: “I don’t see how there can be other ways to improve the standards of the June elections, when they refuse to sit and talk about improving them”, Rama said.

The Prime Minister said that people in Brussels are laughing with the condition for electronic voting. For the first time he said that electronic voting is possible, but it can be compensated by opening the ballot boxes.

“We can do the electronic voting. But it will be replaced 100% by opening the ballot boxes, if things go that way”, Rama said.

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