The Minister of State for Relations with the Parliament, Elisa Spiropali, after a meeting with the Assembly of SP Shkodër, has stated that there is no discussion of early elections in our country.
“There is no discussion about early elections, when there are, you will be informed, but until today we have a full mandate and a mandate to realize our promises as a government, and we will do that,” she said.
Among other things, Spiropali also focused on the chaos created in the Parliament by the opposition, while emphasizing that according to her, “this is a dead end and that radicalism is not a solution”.
Likewise, the minister called on the DP deputies to unite in order to have a proper strategy.
“Definitely, this situation is not liked not only by us, but also by the public opinion and the citizens of this country do not like to see fire, flames, whistles in the Assembly, they want to hear the voice of the elected deputies, they want to hear the opinions even critical of draft laws or others and we very much wish that the issues that hinder the deputies of the DP and here I am not dividing them into who and how but I am saying that all of them together must return to the path of reason, must they find a point that unites them, to make the union between them first in terms of the strategies they have to choose both in the Assembly and electoral strategies, and the Assembly cannot be the solution for their radical strategies. They have every right to protest, to go to dead ends, but this is not the way of the Assembly of Albania. The Assembly of Albania is for other work and all the oppositions have tried to radicalize, they have tried to burn the mandates, even to abandon the Assembly, we have done it too, we abandoned it for 6 months when we were in the opposition and that road led us nowhere. I believe that the political parties have already gained a maturity to understand that the only way is the institutional way and the way of creating trust in people”, said Spiropali.
The Minister of State also focused on the electoral reform, while adding that this process is not in danger of failure.
“Of course, it is not in danger of failing because, beyond the bipartisan commission, we are certainly hoping that it will work, we have the ODIHR recommendations which are guidelines, they are not only legal changes, there are also other institutional issues that need to be addressed and I am convinced that we will be able to address before the next elections whenever they are.
There are definitely legal changes that may require 84 votes if there is interference in the Electoral Code, there are other issues that can be addressed in other ways, but that is why we have set up this Commission so that we can come there and make proposals substantively, we have not set up the Electoral Reform Commission to discuss one or the other’s chair”, she said.
