Speaker accuses President and opposition

14/10/2011 00:00

The Parliament Speaker, Jozefina Topalli, thinks that the opposition’s blocking
stance is the main reason why Albania is having its EU
integration delayed.

During a joint press conference with the Deputy President of the German Bundestag, Eduart Oswald, Topalli declared that some of the key priorities for receiving the candidate status, such as the electoral reform, the limited immunity, the establishment of the Administrative Court and the Ombudsman, which require qualified majority, have been intentionally blocked by the opposition.

“I think that the boycott has reached its goal. Mr. Rama was right, the boycott left Albania without a status”, Topalli declared.

But the Parliament Speaker didn’t stop at this. Asked by the journalists to comment the President’s declaration, who said that the country has been penalized by the politics, Topalli declared that the President is not only responsible for the corruption in the judicial system, but also for refusing to give his accountability and for collaborating with the opposition for the blocking activities.

“I read the report and especially the part about the judicial system and the corruption in there. As regards the reason why the candidate status was not granted, the boycott and the blocking, I have always seen President Topi and opposition’s leader Rama as the joint responsible in the last years”, Topalli declared.

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