I welcome the initiative of the Minister of Justice for criminal amnesty.
Undoubtedly, we have the most aggressive penal system in Europe and as such there must definitely be relaxing measures. There are very few of us and at this rate of prison for everything, it is becoming a rationing for everyone.
The initiative deserves respect.
I am happy that some Albanians will benefit from this amnesty.
But at the same time, I also feel a little sad because these are the same arguments that have always been for an amnesty.
This shows that we have learned nothing from the past.
It was my privilege to be the initiator of two criminal amnesties in the past, where the parliamentary political majority was not as clear as it is today. We had to fight a lot, that is, for every vote of the deputy. But we used these arguments like today's.
Unfortunately, neither in my time nor today, we can't get out of a somewhat hypocritical mentality. Totally insincere and filled with 100 completely idiotic complexes.
The country, today more than in the past, needs a genuine POLITICAL criminal amnesty.
We need an amnesty that weighs more heavily on criminal prosecution. In fact, the concept of amnesty was invented for this phase. That there is individualized forgiveness for the convicted.
Today is the moment for Parliament to send a strong message to justice, especially to criminal prosecution for verbal abuse or cell phone messages; criminal prosecution for political hatred of opponents; criminal prosecution of the media and journalists; criminal prosecution without consequence or criminal facts; criminal prosecution that pleases the crowds and promotes popular justice.
Yes, yes, the parliament should amnesty Erion Velina as a man still elected to office and Ilir Meta as the president of this state, who has not yet been proven to have harmed the state. He may have harmed himself and his party, but not the state.
Of course, the amnesty should free the opposition leader from criminal cases that have no connection to his past as Prime Minister. Along with him, his family members, who are under criminal prosecution simply because they are his family members.
There should be no criminal amnesty for businesses that are being prosecuted for no reason at all. Absolutely not. Doing business, making contracts, and making a profit cannot be called a crime, people!
The trial in an amnesty is undoubtedly POLITICAL. There is no need to complicate politics with dirty, uncooperative theories about "impunity."
Everyone who talks about impunity, arrests and detains people without evidence?!
This is the moment, amnesty is the constitutional instrument that gives direction to these Jacobin phenomena.
Yes, yes, the Jacobins must be unhappy with the political criminal amnesty.
Parliament has the constitutional right to evaluate criminal policy in the country and provide messages and solutions to irregularities when they become the norm of behavior.
And don't tell us that America didn't allow us such amnesties. For God's sake, don't insult us at least!
What American would be against a sovereign amnesty for a sovereign country?
But Donald Trump, who amnestied and still amnesties people who were killed there. Well, he does it politically without asking the parliament at all. You've heard him say that the police officer who killed that left-wing activist is under federal protection, right?!
Or do you want the pardon that President Biden gave his son?!
So don't open our stomachs with Americanism and Jacobinism.
The country needs an amnesty, perhaps even a penal peace, to create a calm that should precede the very deep reforms that are required.
Parliament is perfectly legitimate to do so, despite the government's truncated amnesty initiative. It just needs accountability and citizenry to do so.