The "McGonigal" case, Berisha's group request to the Assembly: Motion with debate without time limit

2023-02-01 19:04:35Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The "McGonigal" case, Berisha's group request to the Assembly:
Berisha's group demands the removal of the time limit

Sali Berisha's grouping has submitted to the Parliament a request to change the agenda in Thursday's plenary session. These MPs have requested from Speaker Lindita Nikolla that the debate with the motion should not have a time limit.

Two days ago, the Conference of Speakers accepted the request of the parliamentary group of the Democratic Party for an urgent interpellation with Prime Minister Edi Rama on the McGonigal case.

In addition, the conference approved the calendar and work program of the Assembly. In Thursday's session, the chief democrat Sali Berisha and four DP deputies who are excluded for ten days after the riots that occurred in the assembly last session will not be present.

Request filed in the Assembly:

Madam Speaker of the Assembly

In recent days, Albanian and international public opinion has been shocked by a scandal of international proportions that has also involved the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama.

According to the data published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the US Department of Justice and the US and international media, on 21.01.2023 the senior FBI official, Charles McGonigal, was arrested, accused of violating sanctions against the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska , with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as for concealment, manipulation and falsification of data for inappropriate contacts with foreign citizens, including the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and two of his associates who do not hold official positions in the Republic of Albania.

In the lawsuit filed against Mr. McGonigal near the District Court of Columbia (Washington), listed a series of facts related to at least 5 secret meetings held between Prime Minister Rama and Mr. McGonical, in the presence of two other people who cooperated and acted on behalf of Mr. Rama, involved through bribery of the amount of 225 thousand dollars to influence the internal political developments in Albania.

This serious event has been made public after an in-depth two-year investigation by the FBI office in Los Angeles against two FBI offices in New York and Washington, already undergoing a judicial process in the courts of these two states.

At the same time, bearing in mind that the oligarch Oleg Deripaska should have been sanctioned by Albania since April 8, 2023, as a candidate country that applies European Union sanctions, it results that he continues to own businesses licensed directly by the Albanian Government, in violation of directly of this political and legal obligation.

Bearing in mind the extraordinary size of this unprecedented scandal, where the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama is included as the subject of investigation and accusations of involvement in international corruption, the undermining of public trust towards the institutions of the Albanian state and the violation of interstate political and diplomatic relations between Albania and United States of America, as well as based on Article 31 point 2 and Article 98 of the Rules of the Assembly, a group of deputies requests:

1. Changing the Agenda of the session of 02.02.2023, 10.00 am;

2. In accordance with point 1, the inclusion as the first point of the Agenda of a Motion with Debate on the above issue.

3. We request that the Debate has no time limit, giving every MP the opportunity to express himself.

The President of the Assembly to convene the Conference of Speakers immediately after submitting this request, before the start of the Plenary Session on February 2, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., to change the Agenda of this session according to the above request.


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