TIRANA, Sept 23 /ATA/ – By I.Vata/ – The Secretary General of the Democratic Party Gazment Bardhi stated Thursday that a decision to hold sessions of the parliamentary committees remotely instead of meetings in the parliament offices face-to-face, was actually an attempt by the majority to silent the opposition.
Speaking to reporters, Bardhi said that the decision by the Conference of the Chairs of the parliamentary groups to hold online meetings “runs counter to the parliament’s regulation and it is an attempt to silent the opposition.”
“On behalf of three opposition parliamentary groups, I would like to inform the public over an unprecedented action committed by the minority that has usurped parliament’s Conference of Chairs to silent the opposition. Pursuant to the Assembly’s regulation, the sessions of the parliamentary committees should be held online only in the event of extraordinary emergency situations. The committees’ meetings are much more important than the parliament’s plenary sessions if the parliament operates in a democratic state. Over the past eight years, we have seen a parliament acting as a notary of the government’s corruption practices,” Bardhi said.
The DP lawmaker said that “the decision is unacceptable, it totally lacks transparency and it is designed to hide the government’s corruption practices from the public eyes, just like they have done in the past eight years, when Parliament served merely as a notary of these corruption actions.”
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