SP Group, debate for police

30/07/2014 00:00

Today was the first meeting of the Socialist Group after the majority
could not vote last Thursday a law that required qualified majority
because some of their MPs were intentionally absent in Parliament.
However, different from what it was expected, the SP leader Edi Rama did
not ask individual explanations from the MPs who abandoned the voting.
Sources say he was balanced between the discontent of some of them and
between not justifying their reaction.

The SP leader has announced the planning of an internal rules that will regulate the communication between MPs for having discipline in sessions.

After underlining the importance of the recent laws that are about to pass in Parliament, including the new territorial reform, the Prime Minister left the meeting.

The Socialist MP, Andrea Marto, expressed his stance against the division of some southern villages between the municipalities of Konispol and Livadhja, a division that has gone beyond the criteria for preserving the border between the communes as established by the Commission.

Despite being against Minister Cuci and Bashkim Fino, Marto supported the reform in general but he warned that just for these two villages his vote would be against this Thursday.

While the debate for the territorial reform ended here, the debate for the draft law of the State Police was harsher.

The National Guard issue caused debates between Paulin Sterkaj and Minister Tahiri.

Sterkaj was against the proposition of the Interior Ministry for merging it with the State Police, a stance that has found support from most of the MPs at the Commission of Security and of some MPs at the Commission of Laws.

The Chairman of the Commission of Laws, Fatmir Xhafaj, declared that they need a new law for the National Guard.

Arta Dade proposed to postpone the passing of this law in September, while the Chairman of the Group, Gramoz Ruci, tasked the MPs to find a consensual variant before the session starts.

Some of the MPs who abandoned the voting process one week ago were also absent this week: Tom Doshi, Mark Froku and Parid Cara.

The wait will be over tomorrow, when we will see how the law will be voted and what stance will be held by the Party for Justice, Integration and Unity, and also by the United for Human Rights Party, which declared that they would leave the coalition if this variant of the territorial reform will be voted.

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