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The head of the Democratic Party Parliamentary Group, Gazment Bardhi, has raised concerns about what he describes as the exclusion of the opposition from the normal functioning of the Assembly, during the meeting of the DP parliamentary group.
In his position, Bardhi accuses the majority of blocking the opposition's constitutional rights, rejecting its legal initiatives and excluding it from important decision-making processes, including appointments to independent institutions and the European integration process.
According to him, this situation has turned the role of opposition MPs into a formal one, considering their presence in Parliament as a "facade of false normality" which, according to Bardhi, undermines the basic standards of democratic parliamentarism.
He stressed that if the opposition is unable to discuss issues of public interest, exercise control over the government or propose laws and amendments, then its role in the Assembly is seriously questioned. On the other hand, he threatened that they will not allow the annihilation of parliamentarism, signaling that we may see a return of unrest in plenary sessions.
Bardhi's Message
The political stance of the majority to block every constitutional right of the opposition, reject every legal initiative, exclude it from the appointment process in independent institutions, or exclude it from the integration process, makes the role of opposition MPs in Parliament not only negligible, but above all a facade of a false normality, which undermines the very principles and minimum standards of democratic parliamentarism.
This situation seriously questions the very purpose of the opposition's continued presence in Parliament. If the opposition cannot discuss issues of public interest, cannot exercise oversight over the government, cannot propose laws or amendments for the benefit of citizens, and if its constitutional rights are ignored, then its role becomes merely formal, failing to fulfill its democratic responsibilities.
While we remain committed to operating within the democratic institutional framework, we will never accept the annihilation of parliamentarism or the denial of our constitutional rights. A country that aims to join the European Union, but that violates the basic rules of democratic coexistence within Parliament, where the majority and the opposition have their respective roles and responsibilities, cannot be anything other than a propaganda of a false normality.
We want Albania to move towards the European Union not through empty propaganda, but through genuine standards and institutions that function democratically, starting from the institution that constitutes the core of our Republic - the Assembly of Albania.
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