Balla "Condition" To The Parliamentary Opposition: Give Us A Consensus On The Electoral Code And We’ll Give You The Open Lists

Nga OraNews Përditësimi i fundit 9 Korrik 2020, 16:37

During Thursday's (July 9th) parliamentary session, theleader of the Socialist parliamentary group, Taulant Balla, called on theparliamentary opposition to reach a consensus on the electoral code so thatthey can return it to constitutional changes.

Balla said the majority is ready to sit down and talk tothe parliamentary opposition and finally reach a tripartite agreement onelectoral reform.

Balla: Focusing the entire parliamentary debate on how we will come to parliament in the next legislature is not the only thing the citizens want.

I can't avoid them. I want to respond to the parliamentary opposition regarding the necessity to implement the agreement with the extra-parliamentary opposition as we have agreed.

We need to understand that even though it is an agreement to do nothing, it is an agreement to address the basic recommendations of the ODIHR.

The return to the battlefield of another political force of the extra-parliamentary opposition is an important dimension.

With you, the opposition within the Parliament, we are ready to discuss with you according to a transparent procedure related to a partial opening of the lists.

You have called for some restrictions on coalitions as well as the national threshold. Opening the lists is important, the citizens demand.

Parliamentarization and above all politics is the art of consensus. You will give consensus regarding the code, we will give consensus on constitutional changes.

In the end, we will reach a tripartite agreement and organize elections next spring, so that they are worthy.

My call to them abroad is that the Assembly does not take orders or orders, while I ask them to show respect to their MPs who come from their lists, because in the end we do not have the votes and the rest of the hall must necessarily support the code.

I will tell you bluntly that we will support the opening of the lists.

Following this proposal by Balla, the parliamentaryopposition decided to leave the parliament where MP Myslim Murrizi was the lastto speak and respond to Balla.

He said that if the majority has opened an auction tolure, intimidate or threaten MPs, then it should forget the 84 votes on thePolitical Council's Electoral Reform Agreement.