The European Commission supports the principle of a "joint investigation" in Albania, bringing together government and opposition, after anti-government demonstration in Tirana on Friday, January 21, that left three dead, killed by bullets. "We fully support the principle of an investigation," said a spokesman for the Commission, Natasha Butler, stressing that the investigation should be "common and comprehensive"."It is important that calm returns to Albania, she stressed, calling on the Albanian politicians as a whole to show" responsibility ". "It is the Albanians themselves, government and opposition, to identify priorities," she said. Recalling that Albania was a "potential candidate" to the EU, she noted that membership could not be done on "very clear principles." The Albanian Parliament, meeting in special session Sunday night, spoke in favor of the creation of a commission of inquiry into the events of Friday.
But only seventy-three deputies of the ruling majority have voted for this inquiry. The opposition MPs boycotted the session. The Socialists have never recognized the victory of Sali Berisha's parliamentary elections in June 2009, accusing the premier of fraud. Mr. Berisha has accused his side of the opposition leader, Edi Rama, also mayor of Tirana, of wanting to foment Friday a "coup".
Albania has been experiencing since the 2009 parliamentary political crisis, with a minimum stake of opposition in parliamentary proceedings, the longest in the country since the fall of communism in the early 1990s.
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