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Democratic Party MP Oerd Bylykbashi said that the electoral reform commission is bipartisan and consensual only if it reflects the real relations of the majority and the opposition.
In a post on Facebook, he writes that the reactions of the representatives of the European Union, the United States of America and the United Kingdom highlighted the untruth of Lulzim Basha's statements as if the international partners have mediately supported a minority group of deputies, emphasizing that they they clearly demanded that the reform should deal constructively and comprehensively with electoral problems.
Bylykbashi says that as long as the majority will simply demand a numerical majority of 84 votes for the electoral reform, the commission is neither comprehensive nor consensual and constitutes an unacceptable farce for the Democratic Party.
Bylykbash's full post:
The Democratic Party emphasizes again that the violation of the elections of May 14, 2023 is at the root of the political crisis that Albania is going through. The degree of violation and disregard not only of the Electoral Code and constitutional principles, but also of international electoral standards in these and previous elections is equaled only by the 2001 elections, which were condemned by the OSCE/ODIHR report and the European Parliament.
In 2001, OSCE/ODIHR recommendations and a European Parliament resolution called on the socialist majority in parliament to set up a bipartisan, majority-opposition electoral reform commission, with the two largest real forces co-chairing the commission and vetoing it. unilateral decisions and guaranteed consensus, as well as the involvement of all political forces. This position was a clear distancing from the unilateral reform with a numerical majority of 2000, when the DP, the real leading force of the opposition, avoided the reform.
Today's successive reactions without delay by the representatives of the EU, the United States and the United Kingdom, not only highlighted the untruth of yesterday's abusive statements of Lulzim Basha as if the international partners had mediately supported a minority group of MPs, but clearly demanded that the reform deals constructively and comprehensively with electoral problems. Very clearly, in the statements of the OSCE, the EU, the USA and the United Kingdom, there is no support for the statement of Prime Minister Rama who stated that for the electoral reform he will simply ask for a numerical majority of 84 votes with those he bargains with, such as did for the vetting.
The electoral reform commission is bipartisan and consensual only if it reflects the real relations between the political forces in the majority and the opposition, only if the Democratic Party, the real representative of the overwhelming majority of opposition voters, owns the co-direction of the commission and the veto that guarantees the real majority-opposition political consensus.
The current commission does not represent any of the criteria that ensure inclusiveness and constructive consensus. The opposition from the opposition of the current composition, direction and decision-making mechanism in the electoral reform commission, as well as the rejection by the majority of the DP parliamentary group's request to change these, is one of the two basic political reasons for the normal dysfunction of the parliament, in addition to the non-establishment of parliamentary investigative commissions
It is well-established practice over the last 20 years by the OSCE/ODIHR that their technical assistance and expertise be offered only to a truly consensual bipartisan commission. Such expertise has often helped to find consensus between the two main political forces and between the majority and the opposition in general. The request to the OSCE/ODIHR, signed yesterday by the current co-chairs, aims to break this positive tradition. It does not represent the Democratic Party and the real opposition and aims to legitimize a reform based simply on numbers and deals of Rama and Basha.
The current framework of the commission is only equivalent to a numerical majority, as Prime Minister Rama intends. As long as the majority maintains this status quo, this commission is neither comprehensive nor consensual and constitutes an unacceptable farce for the Democratic Party. Any of its products cannot be consensual and does not guarantee standard choices.
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