Today’s Parliamentary session went beyond formal communication and turned into an arena of offenses between parties.
Former Prime Minister Sali Berisha reported what he called a hidden agreement of the government with the International Monetary Fund, which foresaw the freezing of administration salaries and a 10% tax increase, including water and elcetric power. He focused on personal attacks against Prime Minister Rama, crossing the ethical line of parliamentary debate.
Sali Berisha: Rama was not allowed in the first Initiative Council of the Democratic Party Creation because he stank. He is a dirty person, and he exploits the Prime Minister’s seat with an ordinary language.
Edi Rama: You are behaving like Shaban Qosja. You take your turn to speak and start accusing. What you said about oil was untrue, and that’s how true is what you said about the International Monetary Fund, hidden agreements and everything else.
After asking to discuss the agreement with the International Monetary Fund in today’s agenda, the opposition left the room, saying that they were respecting their decision for keeping conditioned relations with the Parliament.
The only opposition Parliament Member who stayed in the room was Fatmir Mediu. The leader of the Republican Party used the amendments of the law for the Integration Institution of Politically Persecuted people, and accused the government that they haven’t included two categories in the budget of this year: former land owners and former persecuted people, which spurred strong debates with Prime Minister Rama.
Fatmir Mediu: Will the government compensate any of the legal owners with physical land? There is nothing, so far. This government removed 18 hectares from the Compensation Fund, to sell them for one euro and remove every hope for physical compensation.
Edi Rama: You have given properties for all Balkan, and you have started conflicts among Albanians. There are plenty of murders over property issues. You are the most caricatural image of the communist regime. The ugliest remains of the communist regime. You are what the communist regime did to this country. You have left this garbage for 20 years, which is now becoming a gangrene of the democratic process.
Fatmir Mediu: As for the former political prisoners, I was together with them in a hunger strike in 1991, and I was with them even when they held a hunger strike against the government led by the Democratic Party. I have kept their side not because they are looking for mercy, but because they want what they are entitled to, because they have dignity and because they are not that part of the Albanian society who wait for the persecutors to cry for them. My advise for you is to not behave like Shaban Qosja, because that’s what you are doing in every session.
Edi Rama: You claim you were suffering during the communist regime, but you are the biggest suffering of everyone who voted you, of everyone who trusted that you would give their property back, and you have always successfully lied to them.
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