The changes in the regulation of the Assembly, with the extension of the expulsion time for of MPs if they break the rules during the sessions, seem to have had an immediate effect.
For the first time in several weeks, in today’s parliamentary session, there were no more overturned chairs, firecrackers or members of the Republic Guard standing between the majority and opposition MPs.
Deputies of the parliamentary minority had chosen today only to hold some banners, as well as sound some trumpets to make it impossible to hold the session, which, however, took place for about 12 minutes, where several draft laws were approved.
Today’s protest of the opposition was so peaceful that at the beginning of the session Speaker Lindita Nikolla asked the officers of the Republican Guard to leave the position where they had been standing for several weeks, in front of the ministers’ tables.
The changes in the regulation of the Assembly envisage a 30-60 day expulsion for MPs who disrupt the plenary sessions. But this exclusion is also accompanied by financial effects, since the MPs’ salary is kept for the time of the exclusion, which seems to have discouraged the protesting MPs.
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