You. See. Albanias overarching National Goal is to join the European UnionPrime Minister doesnt think the country is ready for membership partly because its Political Institutions are underdeveloped that has been on display in the past week as Political Parties have disagreed on when to hold local elections nationwide they were scheduled for june 30th the Opposition Democratic Party now wants that date pushed back and hasnt fielded mayoral candidates the ruling socialists already roma want to proceed regardless with the candidates theyve registered the deadlock has added to skepticism in the European Union about whether albania is ready to join today on talk to aljazeera the Prime Minister of albania eddy rob. Thank you for a minister from talking to today i want to start by asking you about the countrys european prospects which is the Major Political issue facing this country for many years now a few weeks ago the European Union held parliamentary elections across the continent and millions of people voted albania wants to join the European Union but seems unable to hold unisa pull elections is albania ready to join the European Union. No albany is not ready to join your opinion because. This is still a long way ahead but of course we are ready to start accession talks. For which we have already. Committed and. Delivered based on the Commission Reports and recommendation to the Member States to consider opening accession talks with and north macedonia. What would albania bring to the European Union more and more europeans are asking what does albania have to of the e. U. Im not sure that. The majority of europeans that. Deal with Political Affairs are where that will be near and the western balkans are surrounded by e. U. Borders so we are somehow an organ of the body that is dragging out of the body but is not. Simply fading away but is there saw the choice is very simple let this organ bleed and create. Troubles to the whole body as it happened in the past should have been a reason why 2 world wars started about guns or help this organ to integrate and help the body to get organised so. Its not about enlargement is about the completion is about its about a very important piece of the puzzle because in the area as i said within the European Union that should not be left. As an open space for other actors that may not be very keen to. See the European Union progress and prosper now you have a very tense political situation inside the country at the moment i want to ask you about your dispute over the constitution with president ileum at the. Article 92 of the constitution clearly states that the president not you sets the date of elections for the assembly and the organs of local power the local elections of june 30th so why do you feel you have the right to override the president s decision or change of a decision on the date of the next local election. Last thing i wish in my in my daily work is 2 and 3 legal disputes because you know legal disputes are always complicated there are always. Matter of the from the pinions and let alone have a legal dispute with you but i should tell you very simply that yes there is. There is a clear indication that the president is the one that. Has to set a date for the elections but there is a frame clear frame. You know were electoral law. That the president has. A very. Different well defined space of maneuver in picking dates and this being said. The constitution and all the constitutions all the worlds where there is a parliamentary republic say that the president can pick a date but. No one so that the president can undo that so undoing. Your own decree is a novelty for the history of parliamentary republics but the president in his legal opinion which he delivered on monday 18 pages cites 3 president s 4 previous president s overturning what had been an established state in one case for general election and in 2 cases for local elections so it is not without precedent it is without precedent because. When local elections have been have been postponed it has happened. In times when we didnt have the same legal frame and the legal frame has been has been consolidated exactly to avoid the repetition of this think and when general elections were postponed 2 years ago. Based on the agreement between parties it was only one week within the constitutional and legal frame and it was based on a consensus of all Political Parties and the venn predecessor of our actual president as asked did by return because otherwise he could not undo. Your Immediate Reaction to the president s position was that you were going to have him dismissed and what we heard was that thursdays parliamentary debate was going to be a motion for parliament to ask for the president s removal but that didnt happen the resolution you brought instead to censure the president i want to ask you what was your constitutional basis for asking for the president s removal the constitution states that the president may be dismissed for serious violations of the constitution do you think that the change of the date was such a serious violation 1st of all to her. Was inaccurate and again i have to repeat that. We live in a so so far world of news that there is no more time of Fact Checking we didnt say that we would start the procedure of impeachment on thursday we just said that yes we will start the procedure of impeachment but there are steps so the 1st step was to to based on our on our law. It was to. Take note of the facts and come out with the resolution of the Parliament Taking note of the fact of the constitution has been breached really violently because you know. How possibly in the world and never happened before in the world. At least in the part of the world where we have democratic but i meant to republics that once elections have started once the complaint has started the president can say im sorry i have to undo the date it doesnt happen so this is one this is the this is the stunning violation of the constitution the president said that he acted out of concern for Public Security and democratic stability. And your political opponent Democratic Party leader losing. Yesterday on thursday called upon the citizens of albania to act and i shall quote from morsi told me. In a way that european citizens are forced to act when they are faced with the prospects of an effective coup that. It isnt clear what he means by that but it is clear that he means some sort of action. Are you at all concerned. About what may happen if you proceed with local elections on june 30th and do you think its responsible to proceed im not sure if its interesting for your audience that were entering all the details. But i think that 1st of all the constitution does not allow the president to. Use his office for concerns or for imagination because there is very clear. The president in our constitution is. Is not the. Institution that has to deal upon or or things like that so its ridiculous. On the other hand its important i think for your audience thank you for giving the opportunity to understand whats happening out there now because this is this is you know. Where from where everything then unfolds so the world has seen in the last 3 months maybe pictures of. Heavy stuff like protestors coming here and throwing molotov. Right or sold the building and of course you know its concerning but when you see it from fire you think that the reason i praise of the people its not the people its just. An old and its quite obscure politics of group of a present for president of the people that have a big concern the have a concern without Justice Reform and they were concerned with the possibility of opening the negotiations now which would imply start immediately with 2 chapters of justice and then of course would imply there will be no has to shoulder is a state of rule of law and its not just about being ok in the paper but its also about having the capacity to indict and convict. You know. Big guys. So we are now in a process of vetting of old judges and prosecutors from the old system and. Many of them are already kicked off because of not being able to to show to prove the legitimacy of their wealth and so we will have the whole system. In place with judges that get out clean and interior from the vatican so after 30 years well have a Justice System that will be not anymore. You know maneuvered by politicians the last year opin commission report. Cites the need for more progress on high level prosecutions in organized crime particularly drug related crime more high level convictions and indictments. Do you think that albania does have a problem with organized crime. Of course i think would be you know as a problem with organized crime and corruption as every country that is not yet a modern functioning state thats why we are in this process thats why were not members of the e. U. Or thats why the im not pretending that. Its an injustice is that we are not members today we need to prepare we need to modernize and fighting corruption and fighting. Organized crime is about very strong willed but its about very strong institutions and very strong mechanisms and functioning. In every direction this being said. If i turn my had. 5 years and a half ago and. I see from where we come we have done we have done impressively but if i see forward where we want to go and where i aim to bring the country. Raise much more to this is part of the problem managing the expectations. Then ians really want to go to europe now and many of them leaving we hear as many as 50000. 00 a year according to some estimates because in albania salaries rarely brize above 400. 00 and they want not only the prosperity but the legal structures and the source of society that they can enjoy in europe how do you explain the fact that despite these years of hard work and reforms albanian per capita g. D. P. Remains pretty much stuck at 400000. 00 and albanian unemployment even though its come down a very long way still it 12 percent and 22 percent of the young. Some. How do you explain that. Its earth or a question that last year. In germany there were 100000 cross roads a number of European Union. Much more ahead of us with registered in german labor offices explain that portugal has has a quite the same process of a period of reforms and some good results and there are 50000 people leaving. How do you explain that the south of italy is empty. By people leaving to the north and the north is you know in trouble for medical doctors. That are leaving its its one of the most excellent systems of health care in europe and still they say you know were missing but it will doctors. Explain that this is happening in every country now yes of course. We leave you know big Global Village its not there more like it was than or 20 years ago people see much more opportunities and i realize that better better you do. More you want its not like you know people that leave. In. Total poverty they lose the capacity to have you wouldnt missions you know but people that start to move out from poverty of course they want to to have more so its not something that. There is a magic to fix and i always say you know expectations are the more are the biggest the biggest enemy. Of every government that comes with a lot of support but in same time what i think is what we need to do is to not let the new generation the generation of my little kids were little kids to lose but its also about attracting investments and capital from even your neighbors and that seems to be very difficult for albanians to do because its earned a reputation for being rather very system of governance not a transparent assessment of investments there are high profile cases of investments that didnt happen like club on the south coast and theres also a connection to organized crime in this perception. Among albanians we hear many people voicing opinions that. There are so many members of Parliament Even government ministers who appear to be colluding with organized criminal rings that they seem not to care about the legitimate economy but the illegitimate economy and that the only way to do business in albania is to be in some way illegitimate this is the perception not only of albanians but also of many Foreign Investors how do you combat that. Again 3rd time in the interview have to say yes theres always some truth. In this kind of here saying its the kind of perception but in the same time i realize more and more in the hard way that there is no bigger lie than the half truth so. Now you you legitimate say what is the truth dont ask me shall one of the Biggest Companies in the world. D. A. P. Trying to dry by playing. Other investors that are working in this country and listen from them if this perception meets with their reality of work. Secondly albania based on the world bank and my my you know Wishful Thinking created last year more than half of new jobs in the region. Thirdly. We had. The 2nd highest level of Point Investments in the region last year. So. Its its a big fight and this perception is also a big problem to fault with but again if i turn the had to 5 years. And a half ago when we were elected. When we entered office and i see it now oh my god we have changed a lot we have done things that nobody imagined before. Now if i have to see the reality not the perception yes there is a lot of truth in what you say but the good news is that we are fighting like hell every day to improve you face a controversial local election which you have said you are resolved to hold without the participation of the opposition. I want to ask you whether it wouldnt be more responsible to consider. Meeting with the president who has invited you along with all the other person is to talk about a consensual date that would be uncontroversial. Rather than hold an election that may also contain unpleasant surprises when you see the president when you answer his call as opposing leader 1st of all. We are not in this electoral process. Alone because we have. Excluded the opposition. We are in this letter process along because the opposition has self excluded. So please resort itself based on its own strategy they have walked out of parliament they have burnt the mandates theyve taken the molotov they have transformed themselves in the yellow vests. And the have been gauged in the creation of the image of an image of a brain that is not not the result of people operates but is the result of a set up. Now. It seems. That the reasonable way would be to say ok guys you look crazy. So now we have to settle and lets postpone elections but its not what will be deserve and its not what the future is about because if we set the precedent that a party to party street parties one side decided to to impose. The disruption and election. Terms can be decided upon this direction and it will have its for many years to come one part of the day another party tomorrow another but its not about what we are fighting for we are fighting for a state where there is rule of law where politicians are. Equal in front of the lowers every citizen and not above the law and the v. N. The elections its not its not made for the politicians to decide is made for the people to decide about the politicians so we have the duty to go to the people and the people have the right to judge us escaping this judgement or transforming. This very basic basic. Element of our democratic life it means going in a direction which is not our future. Thank you much. Back. Back back. Back. Back. Back back. 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