The Parliament’s second aberration
Godo: The Assembly is not an elementary-school classroom, where the teacher speaks and the pupils listen
This Assembly continues to walk in a fog and is showing signs of aberration. The first aberration, with symptoms of madness, was the bloodshed in Parliament, while the second aberration appeared yesterday. At the afternoon session, the Assembly was treated like an elementary-school classroom, where the teacher was the current prime minister, Nano, while the pupils were the people’s deputies. Nano went up to the Assembly’s lectern and, just as he used to do with PS members and supporters at the Palatinë Kongresreve when he returned from abroad, he tried to move his own majority. The subject of the lesson was Rome and Brussels. After the prime minister’s speech, the Social Democratic speaker of the Assembly, Gjinushi, hurried to congratulate the head of government and did not allow the parliamentarians (the pupils) to speak. Both Nano and Gjinushi felt rather uncomfortable when those they had considered obedient pupils rose up in revolt. It was the chair of the Foreign Policy Committee, Republican deputy Godo, who objected to the discussion being moved to another point on the Assembly’s agenda. Deputy Godo, intervening on a procedural matter, insisted on his view that the Assembly cannot listen to the prime minister’s report in the way obedient pupils listen to their teacher. Gjinushi, who just moments earlier had thought he could please teacher Nano by speaking on behalf of all the deputies, was forced to accept Godo’s procedural objection. Besides Godo, other deputies also spoke. Here is what Godo said in Parliament last night: “I had the honor of taking part in the Rome Conference, which demonstrated the attention and willingness of 24 governments and important international institutions to help Albania emerge from the difficult situation it is experiencing. Italy deserves our special thanks as the initiator of this conference, which also had the support of circles in the USA. Part of our press did not show objectivity in its assessment of the Conference. This is not good, because when it comes to helping Albania, we must have a common position. I listened attentively to the prime minister’s speech. In general, the presentation is correct. But it seems to me that the prime minister cannot say that the donors faced the Government’s negotiators without reservations, as he declared here tonight. In Rome and, as I also heard, in Brussels, we were asked to look toward cooperation with all political forces. We must understand this condition imposed on us by the West properly.” Continued on p. 6