Pyramid, Constitution Violation

Socialist Party MP Erjon Braçe based these accusations on Article 82.12 of the Albanian Constitution. This article states that the laws proposed should be accompanied by the report that justifies the financial expenses and its implementation. The second clause of this article states that any non-governmental draft-law that increases budget expenses or that reduces revenues should not be approved without the opinion of the Council of Ministers, which must be given within 30 days from the date when this draft-law is filed. This article is also present in the Parliamentary Regulation.

“The Commission of Laws does not justify the financial expenses needed for the implementation for the draft-law that was presented and approved yesterday. The Council of Ministers has not presented in the Parliament the opinion regarding this project”, Braçe declared.

Socialist MP Erjon Braçe discovered that the Albanian Parliament addressed an opinion request to the Council of Ministers on March 2011, with a draft that is different to the current. Despite the difference, the common thing is that on both cases, the answer was not made public, although it was a legal obligation to declare the final value of the object, the way it will be billed, all prices per unit and the way in which the procurements will be performed.

“What has happened with the first draft of this group of MPs registered in the Parliament, sent to the Council of Ministers as a legal initiative? The project is different to the one that is now being voted in the Parliament”, Braçe declared.

Mr. Braçe referred to the declaration of one of the majority MPs, who emphasized in the Commission of Laws that the Parliament can allow the luxury of excluding itself from taxes.

“By stealing, they left our city under the administration of Lulzim, but the problem is that the taxes will be paid by Tirana’s citizens”, Braçe declared.

According to Erjon Braçe, the philosophy of this law in this time of economic crisis is not normal.

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