While two protests were taking place outside the Parliament, the Spaç miners demanding better working conditions and the pensioners demanding dignified pensions or at least the living wage, in Parliament the political parties continued their fruitless debate for several weeks, whether Niko Peleshi should be the Speaker of the Parliament or not.
The opposition, which theoretically should have focused on the real concerns of the citizens protesting just a few meters away, continued to waste time making noise and political noise with empty accusations. This Thursday too, the DP decided to stand up for Niko Pelesh and this time filed a report on his instigation, although they were convinced that something like this would not happen.
The floor was taken by DP MP Ivi Kaso, who accused Pelesh of attempting to silence the opposition and asked him to leave with dignity.
"Run away before the vote and resign. Choose your dignity over the party's duty. You are the one who tried to silence the opposition in the Sovereign's Hall. You will run away without dignity, but you will free the Assembly from the leadership of a speaker who did not know how to lead this institution. You will run away without dignity, but you will have spared your majority colleagues from protecting you with a vote a month after you took the seat of the number two of the State", declared Kaso.
SP MP Damian Gjiknuri responded by defending Peles. According to him, the Speaker of the Assembly has not committed any offense and should not be dismissed. Gjiknuri described Kaso's comment "go away and resign" as a recipe for chaos.
"The violation does not exist, there are no violations, the recipe 'you go away because you are not running the Assembly well' is a recipe for chaos. In the end, order prevails. Niko has done his best and, for his nature, I have known him for years - he does not enter my closest friends, but neither do my enemies. He is the man who knows how to face debates and discussions calmly", said Gjiknuri.
So, an hour of session wasted, without discussions that serve the citizens, simply for rhetoric and political accusations. It all ended with a vote, where the opposition's request was not only rejected by the majority, but also received only 10 votes against from the Democrats convinced that Pelesh's dismissal would not be realized, so much so that they did not even bother to vote.
