Berisha: Ready to meet Rama for reforms

Speaking on the Parliamentary Group meetings, Berisha invited Rama to complete the electoral reform with consensus, and he underlined that he is ready to meet the opposition leader, if he suspects the majority’s sincere stance.

“I appeal Rama to complete the reforms and. We are in a very important process for the country and although we are not reaching a consensual conclusion, I hope that there will be clear will and without ultimatums”, Berisha declared.

According to the Prime Minister, the ultimatum is the mechanism that blocks the consensus, while he underlined that the majority has accepted the propositions and initiatives of the opposition at the Electoral Reform Commission.

“We value the propositions of the Electoral Reform Commission and we hope to reach a quick conclusion within the given deadline and the Parliament voting”, Berisha declared.

Rama: No electoral reform without changing CEC

The Socialist leader, Edi Rama, reacted on his blog about the recent decision of the Central Election Commission for the Waste Import.

Rama considers this decision as the continuity of the tradition created in the institution that has been withheld by the government. Rama says that the next election will be the popular referendum against the stolen power for stealing and polluting Albania, and he promised that he will repeal the law as soon as the Socialists will be in power.

For Rama, CEC has lost its trust and legitimacy, and that the SP will accept no reform without changing this institution.

As regards the request of the Alliance Against Waste Import, CEC declared that they will sent it to the Constitutional Court on January 2013. According to the Electoral Code, the referendum request that has not went through all procedures within March 15th of any year, despite the time when it has been presented, will be postponed for the next year. This meeting should have been made before March 15th of this year. CEC voted that the request will go to the Constitutional Court on January 2nd and 3rd of 2013.

The Constitutional Court will have to decide within 60 days, until 3 March 2013. If the Constitutional Court gives no decision, the request is considered approved. The President has 45 days to declare the referendum date.

The maximal scenario says that this deadline goes until 17 April 2013, but the same Code of 2003 states that the referendum cannot be held six months before the end of the Parliamentary Mandate, and even three months after the first meeting of the new Parliament. The mandate of the current Parliament ends on June 2013, when the new Parliamentary elections will be held.

The new Parliament will gather on August or September, which means that the referendum cannot be held before November 2013. The AAWI understood all of this only when the meeting was over.

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