After failing to stop the majority from approving the territorial reform, neither in the parliamentary committees nor in the plenary session of the Assembly, the leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, will attempt to undo it through the Constitutional Court. He calls the reform unconstitutional and accuses Prime Minister Edi Rama of exerting pressure on the Socialist MPs to approve it.
During a conversation with citizens on social networks, Berisha declared that the opposition will use every means against the new territorial division, which foresees the merger of 15 municipalities.
According to him, the majority's decision contradicts the Constitution and the principles of local government, while he claimed that Socialist MPs were blackmailed and humiliated by Rama into voting against the interests of citizens.
The democratic leader also criticized the rejection of the DP's proposal for a territorial map with over 100 municipalities, arguing that the opposition's alternative would guarantee better representation of communities and would respond to the needs of areas facing depopulation.
But there is also a paradox in Berisha's stance. While on the one hand he warns that he will pursue legal action to oppose the reform, on the other hand he states that he does not trust the justice institutions, which he accuses of being controlled by the government.
So, the opposition leader aims to overthrow the reform through a justice system whose independence he himself questions.
"The DP will follow the legal path. But with the narco-state, the legal path is a fallacy, as the courts are at the service of the narco-government," Berisha declared.
The territorial reform was approved in the Assembly with 85 votes in favor, despite the opposition's objections, which now aims to move the battle from Parliament to the Constitutional Court.
