Ruling majority in Albania thinks there is no time to embark on an ‘adventure’ and wait for the opinion of Venice Commission on Electoral Code amendments, as the Leader of Socialist Party (SP) parliamentary group Taulant Balla revealed Tuesday.

SP Parliamentary Group’s Head also accused President of the Republic of attempting to “put the country in a dangerous spiral” and of not intending to improve the electoral legal framework of Albania.

Earlier, the Head of State returned to Parliament for review the amendments in the Electoral Code, as there was no consensus with the non-parliamentary opposition. President Meta even asked for Venice Commission's opinion on the matter and the Enlargement Commissioner Varhelyi called on the Parliament and Prime Minister Edi Rama wait until this opinion is given before it decides to approve the constitutional changes.

“The Parliament of Albania, through the Laws Commission has dismissed the decree of the President of the Republic for the Electoral Code.

For the majority, the Venice Commission is always welcome to bring a mature opinion, which will be discussed by all political forces with attention and will addressed also for issues after April 25, but now we do not have time to lose, to enter on an adventure.

I have explained it also to the commissioner in a conversation we have had, direct friendly conversations, without gloves, that the parliament will not wait a second, because we have the elections on April 25 and we do not have to enter the spiral of an adventure where Ilir Meta invites us, who does not aim to improve the electoral code, but aims to sabotage from his extremist, anti-majority and anti-parliament position in this process.

They need to have written black on white the electoral law. The implementation of the electoral law requires its own time, a commitment to biometric identification has also been taken, the time is extremely tight”, said Balla.