Berisha, it doesn’t matter how immunity will be lifted

What was noted is the unreserved support that Slovenia keeps giving to Albania in its EU integration efforts, same as with the NATO membership and the visa liberalization.

By emphasizing this support, the Slovenian Prime Minister, Janez Jansa, mentioned in his joint press conference with Berisha the still open issue of immunity lifting. Jansa declared that the immunity issue must be resolved according to the EU standards and that the EU expects a European vote from the opposition on this matter.

“We believe that the opposition will not use this as an internal political tendency, but will offer cooperation when the qualified majority will be needed. The opposition must behave with responsibility. We don’t have here issues that are related only with the internal state affairs. We are talking about requests that the EU has established not only for Albania, but for every country that aims to join the EU for realizing the EU standards. As for the immunity lifting, it must be also respected because this must not be a show of strength between the majority and the opposition, but a cooperation of all political forces so that this can be achieved as soon as possible. If the EU establishes conditions that must be fulfilled, the candidate state must fulfill those conditions in order to be near this goal”, the Slovenian Prime Minister declared.

Berisha gave an important message from Slovenia as regards the way how the immunity is removed. Same as the Parliament Speaker, he insinuated that besides the referendum there is a second chance for voting the law with consensus.

“I underline that the immunity lifting is very important, not as important as the path. Naturally, after a series of failures to removed it through a Parliamentary way, and because the other Party opposed it, we decided to address to the referendum. The referendum option is still standing and it will be operational as soon as the Parliament will not vote to lift it. Because I think that this is a valuable principle for fihgiting with all democratic means”, Berisha declared.

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