The Speaker of the Albanian Assembly, Lindita Nikolla, called on the opposition and the majority to reflect, after three months of blocked parliamentary sessions by the former.
In an interview given to Top Channel’s, Robert Rakipllari, Nikolla said that the opposition has a chance to restore their demands for investigative commissions after the entry into force of the new law.
The head of parliament also underlined that the Parliament is not ‘in crisis’ and that this anomaly created by the democratic deputies has come as a result of the impasse in which the Democratic Party is.
“I would like to say that it has not turned into a parliamentary crisis, because a parliamentary crisis would mean that the Assembly of Albania does not function and does not exercise its constitutional duty to make decisions, we are not in these conditions. We are definitely in a situation where the normality, the development of the parliamentary sessions is not in accordance with the regulation of the Assembly, but it is an internal crisis of the Democratic Party. The opposition has every right to use any democratic and constitutional means to exercise its functions, but in no way to bring the street behaviour to Parliament, or the alleys of the Parliament, or block the work of other deputies who do not think the same as them.
Asked about the opposition’s request on the Parliamentary Investigative Commissions, as one of their rights, Nikolla said that it was not her competence.
“Your question is right. In fact, there was an investigative commission from the opposition, but I want to say that the head of the Assembly is not the head of any political group or political force in the Assembly. At the moment we speak, we have a new law on investigative commissions that also reflects the decisions of the Constitutional Court, and I believe it is perhaps a moment for the opposition to start from here and reflect further”, said Nikolla, among other things.
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