The leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, has withdrawn from the decision to boycott the Territorial Reform Commission. The decision comes after debates held at the meeting of the DP Parliamentary Group, where some MPs expressed their opposition to the boycott and requested the opposition's continued participation in this process.
According to sources, the debates at the meeting have influenced the change in Berisha's position, who has decided that the Democratic Party will participate in the next meeting of the Commission, which is expected to take place tomorrow. However, the participation of the DP will be conditioned by the request that decision-making in the Commission be consensual. Otherwise, the DP has warned that it will leave the Commission.
Several members of the Democratic Party, including Eno Bozdo, Luan Baçi, Bledi Himçi, Tritan Shehu, Arjan Ndoja, Oerd Bylykbashi and Ina Zhupa, have spoken out against the boycott. They have argued that the opposition should not “vacate ground”, but should continue to actively participate and exercise its role within the parliamentary process, especially on an issue of particular importance such as Territorial Reform.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the Democratic Party Parliamentary Group, Gazment Bardhi, has previously stated that the DP will be part of the Territorial Reform Commission, underlining the importance of representing the opposition in this process.
Tomorrow also ends the official deadline for submitting the names of opposition MPs who will be part of the next meeting of the Territorial Reform Committee, which makes the decision taken within the DP Parliamentary Group even more important in procedural and political terms.
