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Sali Berisha has agreed to sit down with Edi Rama to discuss radical changes to the Albanian Constitution. These changes consist of the creation of a Senate and a Parliament chamber and consequently the reduction of the number of deputies in the Assembly.
Analyst Mentor Kikia, who, in addition to this latest development, also spoke about the disagreement between the DP and the SP on Electoral and Territorial Reform.
Kikia expressed that she has a great prejudice against the opposition in every case, both when it cooperates and when it refuses. In this case, Kikia sees the merging of votes with the majority as optimistic as long as the final product will be valid.
"Electoral and Territorial Reform are two of the biggest challenges of this legislature. With the territorial reform, what was done almost 15 years ago, the new territorial division, the elimination of local units and their reduction to 61, will be undone. It was a failure not only political but also administrative in relation to service to citizens. The opposition's contribution to becoming part of the territorial reform is a good thing.
Another is the Electoral Reform. We are used to the fact that after every electoral process, reform begins and is talked about. Historically, it has been left for the last minutes, and then no reform is done, but only something that disrupts work more than hell is done. The commitment to undertake the Electoral Reform at this stage is necessary. When there is no cooperation, we say the opposition is to blame, when there is cooperation, they accuse it according to the principle that it united the votes with the majority", said Kikia.
Among other things, Kikia analyzed the position of oppositionist Agron Shehaj, who refuses to become part of the Electoral Commission, claiming that this is an agreement between two large parties to eliminate the smaller ones.
"It is a good stance, reforms cannot be made only by the majority and the opposition, but by the overwhelming parliamentary majority consisting of the parties. I believe that Shehaj's stance, more than about the composition of the commission, is related to a long-standing suspicion that electoral reform is seen as an attempt by the two major parties to undermine new parties. The SP and the DP have always winked at each other to maintain an electoral law that does not allow new parties to be favored. Shehaj's speech yesterday was precisely that the two major parties have come together for this," the analyst said.
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