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Details from the Conference of Speakers/Opposition Front: We will continue working on reforms even without you

2026-01-19 11:45:00, Politikë CNA

Details from the Conference of Speakers/Opposition Front: We will continue

The Conference of Mayors convened today, and discussions from within the meeting were also revealed.

Regarding the opposition's boycott of the special commissions for Territorial Reform and Electoral Reform, the head of the Socialist Party Parliamentary Group, Taulant Balla, stated that they cannot block the work.

Addressing the opposition, Balla warned that work on reforms will continue without them, if they choose to withdraw from the committees.

"Don't waste time with calls and promises of revolutions that will not happen. Don't waste time with "laying out the carpet" of an alibi for the next defeat. We are ready to cooperate with you fully to give Albania a new Electoral Code according to the best electoral standards, functional Territorial Administrative Division, and everything else."

You must firmly establish in your mind that you cannot block the reforms. We made an agreement in the last session to establish the committees. If you say today to withdraw from the committees, this is a unilateral violation of the agreement. We will be forced to continue the work even without you.

The Special Commission on Electoral Reform should address the recommendations of the OSCE-ODIHR, where the full depoliticization of the electoral administration is a special priority. This unacceptable approach for an EU member state must end, parties are voted for, parties count.

We also all tell each other left and right, during those endless nights of counting in sports halls or school gyms, whenever we have elections. And here we must reiterate out loud the need to issue the election results in a shorter time, why not carry out the counting in the polling stations.

The fact is that whether for party election commissions or for the delay in issuing the election results, time no longer waits for the 2027 local elections. The electoral reform regarding the Electoral Code requires at least 84 votes in the Assembly. But we have made public our ambition for a deeper reform which would also include reducing the number of deputies of the Assembly of Albania to at least 100 or 101 deputies.

"I heard Mr. Gjekmarkaj that the opposition has been denied the right to speak. There is a very significant indicator from the last session. The time of discussions. The opposition has received 48 hours of discussions, the majority together with the Government 40 hours of discussions in the plenary session ," Balla said. /CNA





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