Cracks show as parties discuss new laws

The Commission of Productive Activities showed the unanimous consensus of the Conference of Chairmen by reaching the approval of all three draft-laws with qualified majority.

But the consensus stalled at the Commission of Laws. The Socialist vice Chairman of this Commission, Fatmir Xhafaj, demanded a special procedure for reviewing the Traffic Code. According to him, there was space for improvements in this legislation.

But the Democratic Chairman of this Commission, Ilir Rusmali, declared that the special procedure proposed by Mr. Xhafaj had been rejected by the Conference of Chairmen, which gave priority to the Schedule and Regulation.

“We are not here to be just numbers that someone can use as he likes. You can forget this. We want the unanimity of the Conference of Chairmen to turn into a serious decision-making”, Xhafaj declared.

Rusmali declared that the Conference of Chairmen rejected this attempt that aimed to impose the Parliament to review the draft-laws for excluded procedures.

During the debate for the procedures, opened by Mr. Xhafaj before the Socialists of the Commission of Productive Activities approved the draft-laws with qualified majority, the Democrats put in question the Socialists’ seriousness for the agreement, although Rusmali declared that Xhafaj’s stance might be individual.

“I believe that the Conference of Chairmen has ordered the reviewing the draft law in not a very correct way. I don’t believe and don’t want to believe that this has been perceived as a simple way for just raising the hand and vote. We didn’t give our consensus for a formal process”, Xhafaj declared.

“This was the first test for seeing if you would really stick to the agreement. And if the first test is not successful, this cannot be a historical agreement, but a historical failure. I don’t want to believe that what Mr. Ruci declared yesterday, that this is a consensus that aims the country’s progress, gets disproved today by Mr. Xhafa, with all due respect to him. I don’t want to see divisions between the high Parliamentary representatives of the Socialist Party”, Rusmali declared.

The democrats agreed to postpone the reviewing of this draft-law to the next Monday, in order to see if the request for postponing it is an official stance or not.

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