Political parties urged on a compromise

TIRANA, Jan. 28 – Alfred Kellerman, European Union expert on legislation, and a professor at the Dutch Assser University, says that a political compromise is a sine qua non for further integration steps into the European Union.
“If Albanian will not succeed to get the compromise with the parties it doesn’t comply with the criteria of EU extension,” he said in an interview to the Deutsche Welle.
The country seems into a political crisis with the parties claiming their right on opening or not a number of ballot boxes of the last year’s general election.
The opposition Socialist Party of Tirana Mayor Edi Rama has boycotted the parliament, while the governing Democratic party of Prime Minister Sali Berisha says opening the ballot boxes would violate the law.
Kellerman urged the political groupings “to get to gather and try to find a solution. I think that a political solution should be found, a solution that is in the interest of the country.”
Albania has applied for the candidate status into the European Union and is now preparing a set of responses to more than 2,000 questions from Brussels.
“Political parties should give priority to the interest of the country and not to their own interests. Political parties should not disturb and prevent such political comprise,” said Kellerman.
The expert also did not support the idea of replacing the opposition lawmakers with the second names in the list if they expire their mandate (until early March) saying that “it will be a distortion of the vote, since the voters preferred initially other candidates.
On the other hand the substitution can harm parliamentary life and principles.”
It is very likely that the Albanian politics will again wait for the mediation of the international community to reach a compromise that will satisfy to the same level both sides.