Omari: Qualified majority laws to be discussed

The only majority MP who replied positively to the invitation was the Parliamentary Group Leader of the Socialist Movement for Integration, Lefter Koka.

“This invitation is based on our deep concern, and it is at the same time an expression of our responsibility for debating and exchanging thoughts in a constructive way. Our invitation to this dialogue table was open for the government and the majority, as another opportunity to avoid conflicting politics and for opening way to dialogue and Parliamentary consensus in order to achieve the reforms in justice, which require the contribution of everyone. We feel bad for their refusal”, declared that Socialist MP, Fatmir Xhafaj.

The Constitutionalist Luan Omari declared that a wide reform is needed in the Court and Prosecution system. He spoke about the need of approving qualified majority laws.

“It is time for the opposition to give its contribution in this aspect. The laws cannot be left aside forever. These laws that require qualified majority are significant factors for our political progress, and the EU has made repetitive requests on this aspect. I think that the laws should be voted after being reviewed, because many of them have passed even in the Parliamentary Commissions, have been approved by the opposition”, Omari declared.

Speaking about a series problems, among which was the Prosecution system in Albania, the General Secretary of the Prosecutors’ Association, Shkelqim Hajdari, suggested some changes:

“The prosecution budget must be independent, approved by law, based on the requests foreseen and argued by the Prosecution each year. The payment of prosecutors and judges must be equalized with the other countries of the region. We must preserve the Constitutional position of the Prosecutor General and the way this figure is elected. The Prosecutor General’s mandate must be equalized with that of the Supreme Court Judges, 9 years without another candidacy”, Hajdari declared.

The opposition leader, Edi Rama, commented the importance of this dialogue invitation and the refusal by the majority.

“We have offered a detailed vision of the process in which we have invited the majority, for the laws that require qualified majority. We have shared this with the most honorable representatives of the Albanian justice, and with our international friends. We have been unable to share it with the representatives of the other side, because they seemed to be busy with more important things than Albania’s European Integration and Candidate Status. I believe that while we were discussing about what Europe requires from us, Berisha must have been on some mountain, saying that the opposition doesn’t allow him to release the throat of the choking Albania’”, Rama declared.

The conclusions of these discussions will serve to the Socialist Party as a platform for the future political discussions in a parliamentary level for the reforms in justice.

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