Former Prime Minister Sali Berisha, in a statement to the media after the tensions in the Assembly today, stated that "there will be no more peace" in the Parliament until, according to him, "the rights of the opposition are restored".
Berisha and his deputies asked to be part of the meeting of the Ethics Commission, where the expulsion of the democratic deputies who caused riots in the parliamentary session the day before will be discussed.
But they were not allowed by the Guard, and were forced to leave without being present at the Commission meeting.
"Deputies are excluded without being heard. Parliament has no more peace until rights are restored
So you see how the meetings are held here, he calls the deputies and expels them without any legal basis. The secretariat is there to listen and she only listens to one, leaves. I made the decision, he says. That I am the one who makes the decision without asking either law or regulation.
The media have driven them away, they have turned it here into a crime den. This is no longer a parliament. See how decisions are made. It is being protected by 5 guards. Instead of listening to the deputies, listening to their reasoning, as required by the rule, I have made the decision, he says. This is a shame.
There is no more peace in this parliament until the full restoration of the constitutional rights of the deputies. You see for yourself how these have transformed the parliament, as never before in its history. Excludes MPs without being heard", said Berisha, among other things.