
Wednesday was the last deadline for the Albanian President to decree or
to return in Parliament the law for the construction of the new
Parliamentary Complex.
The new complex will be built where today stands the International Cultural Center. The plan for razing this building down has provoked a wide reaction among the Albanians and foreign diplomats in Tirana, even by the EU Commissioner for Enlargement, Stefan Fule, from the European Commission.
In face of such a sensitive matter, the President chose to not decree the law. The law will be enacted without the signature of the Head of the State, as the Constitution provides.
But for Artan Lame, this is a strong message for the Prime Minister.
“The President is the one who expresses the national unity, while the Prime Minister expresses the difference between two camps. Maybe the President did not want to take sides, and has found a middle solution by not decreeing the law, and by not returning it to the Parliament. This way he will not fulfill the desire of the President for dividing people who are on his side or against him”, Lame declared.
Lame underlines this issue has a wide consensus, as never before.
The people of Tirana gave its message in all possible ways. Albania’s greatest figures, the international community, the former Mayor, the current Mayor and the President also gave their message. I don’t know who has to talk to the Prime Minister and convince him for abandoning this craziness”, Lame declared.
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