FLASH
Shkruar nga Sandër Lleshaj
Today, what is needed is not the unauthorized addition of another upper floor to our parliamentary structure, but the rebuilding of its foundations...
The relentless invention of new topics is the most efficient method of forgetting and covering real fires with smoke. And for this to work well, the topics thrown into the public sphere must be beyond reason and as close to absurd as possible.
The latest idea to add another chamber to the Albanian Parliament seems to be exactly the same, as if our country doesn't have enough of the nonsense being produced in the current chamber, so much so that it needs to increase its production capacities with a new body.
It is rare to meet Albanians today who are proud or satisfied with the level of their highest representative body. The level of the Albanian Parliament has followed a steep downward trajectory throughout these decades of the new political system to reach its current state. Today it resembles more of an arena for fighting for personal interests (which in Albania also means party interests) with no connection to the public interest and in alarming conflict with its very name as Parliament.
The deputies of today's Albania, in their absolute measure, are representatives of two people, a kind of clone of them both in terms of educational and cultural level as well as in terms of vision, ideas, ethical behavior and political decision-making. Not only are they not representatives of the people, but they do not even represent the parties that formally nominate them.
In order for the Albanian people to be represented in the Assembly of Albania, they must have the right to determine their own CANDIDATES and also the right to select for themselves which of them are the most suitable for the Assembly. As long as the parties determine the candidates, the people cannot have the role of sovereign, but only the miserable role of victim who must be subjected to the will of one or another party leader.
Albania urgently needs to rewrite the “algorithm” of electing the people’s representatives. If the Albanian Parliament had the authority to pass only one law today, it would have to be the Law on Political Parties, the law that currently grants political parties the exclusive power to form the Parliament, denying the people this attribute. Under the current law, which no one complains about, political parties do not function as constitutional institutions based on clear democratic principles and representing the interests of the people, but as hierarchical structures representing the interests of their members.
Today, we do not need to add another upper floor to our parliamentary structure without permission, but to rebuild its foundations. Not increasing numbers, but reducing them and improving the quality of representation are the immediate needs of the country. Albania does not need a senate, when it still does not have a real assembly, but the assembly itself: a dignified, competent, representative assembly; an assembly with representatives of the people and not with emissaries of presidents, an assembly completely different from the one it has today.
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