President Ilir Meta will not decree the last changes of the electoral code voted in Parliament just one day ago and he had an argument; the European People's Party urged him to do so.

In a reaction on this issue on Tuesday evening, the Head of State said that everyone who voted is responsible for what they have done.

After the ruling majority voted on Monday changes on the electoral code, the European People Party (EPP) Spokesman on Foreign Affairs Michael Gahler, said that Prime Minister Edi Rama spoiled the upcoming general elections of Albania by voting this Monday to break the June 5 agreement with the opposition,.

Gahler believes that through this, the Albanian Head of Government has hindered the country’s European Union integration, because the parliamentary elections “were supposed to be free and fair and better than the previous ones”.

Meanwhile, the EPP Spokesman appealed on President of the Republic Ilir Meta to return the law for review to the Parliament and pushed PM Rama to “reconsider his position”.

“By voting today to breach the EU brokered 5 June agreement with the opposition, the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama cast a dark shadow over next April‘s general election which were supposed to be free and fair and better than the previous ones. By doing so Rama clearly hinders Albania’s EU integration. More precisely the breach of the 5 June agreement may very well postpone the first Intergovernmental Conference as the first step for the beginning of the real EU accession negotiations.
Albania deserves much better than that. We call on the Albanian President to send back today’s laws to Parliament. We call on PM Rama to reconsider his position.