Democratic Party MP Agron Gjekmarkaj harshly criticized the majority during his speech in the Assembly, accusing the government of violating democracy and trying to limit parliamentary debate through changes to the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly. In his speech, Gjekmarkaj said that democracies are often not overthrown by external enemies, but are damaged by corruption, privileges, conformism and fear within the system itself. According to him, corruption and crime endanger the functioning of democracy and state institutions.

The Democrat MP also criticized the recent government reshuffle by Prime Minister Edi Rama, calling it a “tragi-comic reshuffle,” while adding that the current cabinet is dominated by figures without individuality and political personality. Gjekmarkaj also focused on the proposed changes to the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, accusing the majority of aiming to limit parliamentary debate. He said that reducing the speaking time of MPs from 10 to 5 minutes and moving the reporting of institutions from plenary sessions to closed committees harms transparency and parliamentary control.

Ironically, the opposition MP also presented some symbolic “proposals” for the rules of procedure, saying that MPs should stand up when the government enters the hall, beat drums when the prime minister arrives, and applaud for a long time when he speaks. At the end of his speech, Gjekmarkaj warned about the danger of “overpower”, emphasizing that the weakening of the opposition undermines pluralism and democracy in the country. He added that the opposition and citizens, according to him, are the main guarantee for preserving freedoms and preventing the concentration of power.

THE FULL WORD
Dear citizens,
Dear fellow MPs,
Mr President,

Every democracy is a fragile balance between power and responsibility, between authority and individual freedom.

History has shown that democracies are generally not overthrown by an external enemy, but they are internally weakened by the seduction, blindness and deafness of money and privilege, conformism, adaptation, servility, corruption, crime and fear!

Corruption trivializes its nature!

Crime calls into question its existence!

The denatured law is transformed into a garter belt according to the stomach of the candidate for autocrat!

No one has enough money to buy back their past, which follows them like a shadow, it conditions the present and the future!

Prime Minister Edi Rama, constrained by circumstances and the dictates of his former deputy, gave us a tragicomic reform of the government, a phantom executive, faceless and visionless.

Tragic because the Prime Minister is not free, tragic is his fear, tragic is the courage that comes from it!

The professional and political vanity of these individuals is tragic!

Everything is like that except your attempt to protect them! It is also comical.

The seven movements within it are a mix for personal survival.

*The ministers who come and go, or those who change and who stand with faces sometimes smiling like dolls and sometimes gloomy and reserved, I don't know why they all seem the same to me, even with the same name!

Figures without individuality and without political personality dominate the SP government today!

Of the "two hundred petritas" of 2013, only one sad lady remains, who seems to be waiting with a frozen heart for this news and looking at the cup while waiting for this coffee!

The Socialist Party should have behaved as a national asset, while it is turning into a national danger, obstructing justice with a cardboard coup, promoting the continuation of corruption as an obstacle to * SPAK, undermining the centuries-old dream, European integration!

In this rematch, in this regression, in this chaos, the socialist majority unilaterally proposes another change to the Rules of Procedure, after a short while ago it unilaterally turned it into a political slaughterhouse where the mandates of the deputies are suspended for 3 months!

Now you have a problem with words and truth!!

You have declared war on them! Judging by dialectics, it is metaphysical, judging by popular culture, it is war with windmills!

You are asking that the deputies' speaking time be reduced from 10 minutes to 5.

You aim to transform the Assembly into a formal theater, where debates, criticisms and political warfare are degraded! Institutional reporting is moved from the plenary session to a closed committee, plunging everything into darkness and secrecy.

This is a frontal attack on transparency, an attack on the citizens we represent because your roads are collapsing, ports are being seized by Spak, airports and Akshi too! What is left for you? Edi Rama has long snobbed, relativized, insulted the parliament and I don't know if he is the architect of the new regulation or some joke that he will find and make as necessary for him in these difficult hours!?

Then I would like to take this opportunity to make some public proposals for the new Rules of Procedure that may be useful to you! When the government enters the chamber, the deputies stand up and bow slightly in respect!
When the Prime Minister enters the hall, drums are played, an opposition MP gives him a bouquet of flowers, and brings him a cup of coffee without sugar!

When he speaks, there is a long and warm five-minute applause, accompanied at the end by the sound of a gong, and monitored by the Speaker of the Assembly! When ministers speak, the applause lasts two minutes, monitored by the Deputy Speaker, and there is no gong.

When the government is happy, the deputies should smile, when it is sad, they should be silent!
In any case, the tear handkerchief should be in the right pocket and the tear jug ​​at the top of the left arm of the room.
Whoever wipes their noses is sentenced to 30 days, whoever sneezes to 60!

A commission of virtue against vice should be established, headed by the majority!
Who says how well we live – the Kopanis!

The Assembly meets once every six months, in early autumn, when the harvest is in full swing, and in late spring, before the beaches are ready.

The chairmen of the parliamentary groups bow and greet each other, ask the Prime Minister and the ministers how they are doing, are they tired and bored with this infidel millet, after their answers the session closes and the most trusted ones distribute Turkish delights on trays!!!

Albania's history has often shown that weak individuals can separate the country from Europe, but citizens are the force that can keep pluralism alive.

If Albanians choose to stand and confront, democracy will survive.

If they flee in despair, it dies, and its place is taken by farce, and politics turns into a jungle!

For a moment, let's assume that you extinguish the opposition and oppositionism, without realizing that the opposition is the greatest guarantee of your freedoms, of your personal security, of your dignity as individuals, of your families!

Its weakening and annihilation turns you into numbers, it gives you only one opportunity, to show zeal, to run to be servile, to pretend, to say hosanna, but every day you will be on the edge, because it will not be the Regulation, nor the Constitution, nor the institutions that will be your guarantors but the moods and emotions of an individual, whose cult lays its foundations on your greed and fear, then you will end up saying, "Oh my God, what has he done that he is not beating me today, as if he has no mercy left!"

It takes you back to where you were before the Democratic Party appeared on the stage of history!

This is a warning to us all!

Civic participation and the courage to speak out are the only hope for a normal Albania.

The decision of the Constitutional Court of Albania, which declared the arrest of Sali Berisha illegal, shows the use of justice against the opposition during the electoral year, but also the state with double standards in which we live!

Consecutive regulations, imposed silence, and depersonalization are not mere accidents but signs of disaster.

Excessive power is not just a problem of the opposition; excessive power oppresses every citizen and destroys hope for a present and future that this society deserves!

Overpowering must be stopped before it destroys everything.

Only the opposition and courageous citizens can keep the country away from the depths of darkness.

When people stop speaking and remain silent in the face of injustice, freedom slowly dies. The Albanian opposition is not afraid of any sacrifice to prevent this ominous project from being realized!!