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Albania is not a parliamentary republic, it is the republic of the presidents

2022-04-21 22:23:17Fokus SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Albania is not a parliamentary republic, it is the republic of the presidents

"If I went back in time ten times, ten times I would do the same to avoid situations where such individuals (Sali Berisha) block a process of taking the country hostage".

Thus stated Edi Rama at the parliamentary session of the Assembly this Thursday referring to the constitutional changes of 2007. Rama referred to constitutional changes that affected the way the country's new President was selected.

As events unfolded later, time may have given right to Eddie Rama in this chapter, but among the changes that were voted on 14 years ago were the changes that put all parliamentarianism under the groove of party leaders.

How did you? The changes smoothed out the Mazhoritar system, where 100 MPs were elected according to the party's personal vote and logo in the 100 constituencies and another 40 through the national proportionality. This choice was not the best, but compared to the proportional regional system that was passed was better.

The changes gave unlimited power to party chairmen. More than voters, from these changes have been the chairmen who have decided who would be an MP. As for example; In the campaign for the 2009 parliamentary elections, in one of the districts Berisha asked the chairman of the PD branch how many mandates he would receive.

The branch chairman, perhaps to make a good impression on Berisha that the branch was strong and the favorite PD tells him 8 of the 14 terms he had the district. Berisha set an example and set the chairman of the eighth branch, while the PD received only 7 terms.

The next example comes from Rama. As opposition speaker, but in the 2009 campaign, Rama goes to a socialist bastion and when he sees the urban situation of the area, he asks the SP MP to account. The MP tells him that 'it was a left area, which the SP won only by leaving that coat there'. When the candidate lists were compiled, Rama disappeared the mp in question at the end of the list.

The two examples are as identical, as different. Identically, they show how much power the party chairmen gave to the 2007 constitutional changes.

This power of presidents over the years was transferred to the Assembly. If pre-2009 rebellions within the kind were not lacking, after these elections they were almost zealous and according to reports released by the Institute of Political Studies the quality of the parliamentary composition also fell.

So the constitutional changes of 2007 destroyed the parliamentary republic and today the country de jure has the name parliamentary republic, but the de facto is the republic of mayors. The speakers are the ones who have in their hands who becomes an MP and who does not, and this power scares anyone who may have ambition, or support among citizens to oppose the speakers.

Therefore today neither side makes a voice when it comes to referendum discussion, or a popular vote for the election of the president, because indeed for at least 14 years none of them have tried the popular vote, but have gone up and made careers under the aegis of the parties and servilism towards the speaker.

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