Topalli: In USA, no secret voting

The majority has not given an official stance yet, since the propositions of the opposition are not official, but during an interview for the Voice of America, Mrs. Topalli strongly defended this Parliamentary Regulation clause that the Socialists want to nullify. She said that it has the highest transparency standard, also used in the US Congress.

“In the US Congress it is the transparency principle that prevails. In the US Congress it is unimaginable to vote in secrecy, because it is unthinkable to have a secret voting. The MPs must be responsible for their actions in front of the citizens who elected them. Not only the judges are elected with this kind of transparency, but the Parliament Speaker is also elected with nominal vote. The only amend that we have made, is the one that has brought a higher standard, not only for the transparent nomination, as mentioned in the US Senate, but also for the fact that the topics outside the daily schedule cannot be more of a priority than the agenda of the reforms that the Albanians need”, Topalli declared.

Mrs. Topalli, who met in Washington the Cabinet of the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, agreed with them that Albanian MPs from the majority and the opposition should visit the Congress for taking the best experience of the Parliamentary life, and especially for learning the voting procedures, where the open vote is the basis of every procedure. Expressing her readiness for discussing in Parliament every amend proposed by the Socialist Party, which might bring high standards in the parliamentary life, she added that the Albanian MPs must understand that the problem is not the regulation, but the lack of freedom among the opposition MPs.

“I think that together with the the free speech, it important to have a free thinking. Everyone has the right to freedom of speech, but some of them lack of the will for thinking freely. Maybe this is what needs more reflection”, Topalli declared.

During her visit in Washington, the Parliament Speaker was attended at the State Department by the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Philip Reeker. But Topalli’s press office gave no details for this meeting.

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