The Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, made an official request to the
opposition for dialogue. The Socialist MP, Talant Balla, said that to
confirm it with deeds and not just words, PM Rama had sent an open
public letter to Mr.Basha.
The opposition leader, Lulzim Basha, said that “the DP has always been open and inviting for dialogue, but has always received offenses and vulgar languages by the sender of today’s letter.” However, these details did not stop the communication, although from distance.
Rama’s invitation for dialogue without international intermediation doesn’t say much about what will be discussed, but Rama considers it as a new mechanism for the “much needed communication between parties in Albania. Let’s prove to our people and the partners of this country the will to not treat political disagreements with huge lack of civilization”, Rama’s letter says.
However, things are not this simple for Lulzim Basha. He says that the disagreements are created due to a malfunction of the rule of law and democracy, because of the failure to implement the Constitutional Court decisions. “The Parliament is a constitutional criminal under the orders of Edi Rama.”, Basha said.
However, this doesn’t mean that the DP refuses Rama’s offer, who says in his letter: “We are ready for dialogue! Are you ready?”. Basha’s answer seems conditioned, however: “I never close to door to dialogue and I always give a chance to consensus. But it cannot be like two years ago when it was signed, we agreed on it and today it is being ridiculed”, Basha said.
The opposition leader left to be understood that the Democratic Party will demand the dialogue discussions to also treat a thorough constitutional reform.
“Our republic has been twice in a constitutional crisis during this majority. It is the time to review the foundations of this republic, so that these crises don’t repeat in the future. This demands political will. We must not forget that it was the perverse political will which brought us here”, Basha said.
The former leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, supported a constructive dialogue but that should be genuine, not just for show.
The dialogue everyone is talking about may have another actor involved, the EU Commissioner for Enlargement, Johanes Hahn, who met both Edi Rama and Lulzim Basha before they released these declarations.
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