The opposition wants Rama for “McGonigal”, Balla: The Prime Minister is in office

13:33 02/02/2023

The chairman of the parliamentary group of the Socialist Party Taulant Balla says that the Prime Minister has the right to delegate the development of an interpellation.

Speaking to journalists after the end of the parliament, Balla considers today’s parliamentary session “ridiculous”.

“The Prime Minister of Albania can delegate the development of an interpellation. When I was in the opposition, I requested 18 interpellations and only 2 were conducted with the Prime Minister of that time. Today was a session beyond ridiculous because you heard that there they raised all kinds of accusations, they even gave court claims, they spoke in the name of American justice”.

Balla was also asked by journalists why Prime Minister Rama did not appear today in the interpellation with MP Bardhi in Parliament regarding the “McGonigal” case.

“The prime minister of Albania has an agenda. The Prime Minister of Albania is in office. There is no avoiding an issue that is not an issue.”

Taulant Balla considers the opposition’s requests for Rama’s presence in Parliament as an attempt to avoid attention.

“We had a session on January 16. This McGonigal case did not exist. The Assembly could not carry out its work normally. The only issue is the question of the investigations for January 21 and Gërdec. The Assembly could not hold that session because the DP MPs blocked the Assembly”.

Balla was also asked about the statement made yesterday by the Minister of the Interior, Bledi Çuçi, who said that he himself did not meet the former FBI official in 2017 and that the relations with him were at an official institutional level and not personal. This is also affirmed by Balla, who confirms the meeting with an FBI official at that time.

Naturally we met a US official. It may happen that we meet another US official on an issue that comes to Albania. After a few years, this person turns out to have problems with justice, and will I bear responsibility or will Edi Rama bear responsibility for something that he is accused of today and that the reason for his visit to Albania in 2017 has nothing to do with it? Mr. Çuçi was not the Minister of the Interior in 2017 and it is said that this gentleman was in Albania in 2017“, said Taulant Balla. /broread