Berisha offers to bring Fazlic in parliament

TIRANA, Oct 7 – Prime Minister Sali Berisha said Monday evening he was ready to bring his friend Damir Fazlic to speak to the parliament if the opposition wanted.
In what seemed to be a political clash at the parliament’s session the premier insisted that he could bring Fazlic. He also added that after that all crime files would be open, referring as if they belonged to opposition lawmakers.
The political quarrel turned hot and the opposition responded saying that the parliament was not Berisha’s property so that he could take Fazlic at his home.
At the same time everyone was surprised to learn that Berisha had files involving certain opposition lawmakers with crime networks. Mero Baze, once a Berisha adviser and now disputing his government, asked that the premier had to take all the files at the prosecutor’s office or keeping those would be a criminal act.
At the same time Foreign Minister Lulzim Basha also denied in the parliament that he or any of his close family or relatives had one business with Fazlic, as mentioned by the media and opposition leaders.
He also said that Fazlic had earned nothing from the governing Democratic party whom he mediated to get the support of a U.S. company for the electoral campaign in 2005.
The opposition asked the prosecutor’s office to immediately start investigation into alleged links of Berisha’s family members to Fazlic. They said there was a link between them and also the ammunition sale scandal and the March 15 blast in Gerdec ammunition disposal factory which killed 26 and injured 300 people.
Ilir Meta of the Socialist Movement for Integration, a smaller opposition party, accused Berisha as the “greatest trafficker.”
The opposition asked for a debate at the parliament on Berisha and the issue but they were ironically offered by the premier either to offer a non-confidence vote and not beat about the bush.
The new constitutional amendments passed last April do not allow a vote of non-confidence for the government.