President, debates in Parliament

Berisha invited the opposition to vote the reforms in a special session that will be held this Friday.

“I agree to have established rules for the view and the electronic passage of the ballot. You can ask the Ombudsman to propose the name of the new Chairman of the Central Election Commission.  Find another way of propositions and we will agree. You demanded that 80% of the decisions to be with qualified majority, and I think that this is right, because you want to have a boycott majority and I know that you are right. We have agreed for this electoral code that has the competence to judge all electoral problems. Take the court decision, set the rules of its functionality, and I will not disagree. It’s not me who is blocking, but you. You accused Berisha is holding this for the President, and I am inviting to come and sit tomorrow, but you don’t agree”, Berisha declared.

Gramoz Ruci answered to Berisha’s propositions by underlining that now that there is a common agreement for the Parliamentary Commission, the majority is having second thoughts.

“Intentionally you leave without mentioning a key problem, the central election commission. You are not taking in consideration a valid advice of the ODIHR for the electronic voting. The opposition wants guarantees for the list of electors, for the identity cards, the CEC election administration, a reliable CEC and with a new composition, as the ODIHR recommends. It is not true that the opposition has proposed that the Ombudsman should propose the name of the CEC Chairman. This is a speculation. If you resolve the problem of the complaining procedures, the administration and the identity card verification process, together with the transparency of the elections, and we will vote it today”, Ruci declared.

Berisha gave his arguments regarding the Parliament Regulation.

“You asked for the opposition leader to have equal rights to the Prime Minister. Give me a single European constitution that has this, and we will approve it. Find it and if it exists, I will vote it. There is a second problem. If you say “the opposition leader”, but when he is never in Parliament, how can we resolve this? Who will be there, his Spokesperson? You want to compare the Prime Minister with the spokesperson of the opposition leader? This is ridiculous”, Berisha declared.

Gramoz Ruci reiterated the need for changes, by illustrating with examples why the current regulation should be improved.

“Which Parliament of the world doesn’t have the opposition-position debate? In which Parliament of the world, the opposition speech is not free? There is no Parliamentary control. You have some interpellation requests from the opposition MPs, and you never come to respond. You asked me to find one single state that has this, and I will bring you two states that do not have the secret electronic voting for constitutional institutions”, Ruci declared.

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