Prime Minister Edi Rama has announced a new legislative package aimed at combating violence and urban anarchy, a day after Saturday’s protest in Tirana, which was marked by clashes, Molotov cocktail attacks on institutions, and damage to public and private property.
Rama stressed that the package is based on the principle that “peaceful protest is protected, violence is punished, and those responsible must pay for the damage.”
He emphasised that the measures were drafted in cooperation with European experts and Italian and French partners, and include six legal instruments.
“With patience and determination in the face of violent individuals, who have no chance of imposing on Albania the rotten mess of a senile man who has reduced the Democratic Party to a mask of violence, of ANTIFA extremists who glorify violence across Europe, and of foreign forces that do not want Albania in the European Union and that incite masked individuals who claim to represent students but who, in reality, represent organised crime as much as, if not more than, students themselves.
And, on the other hand, by addressing the legitimate demands of ordinary people in this country, who rightly expect greater fairness in the redistribution of income generated by economic growth and stronger guarantees that merit determines opportunities in employment.
The 2027 budget, which we will present in the first days of next week, will introduce many positive measures specifically aimed at ordinary families, public services, young people and students.
Following intensive work in cooperation with European experts, as well as close coordination with our Italian and French partners, drawing on the model they have adopted in response to the same anti-democratic scourge, and also based on the case law of the European Court, we have finalised the legislative package of measures against violence and urban anarchy.
This legislative package rests on a very clear principle: peaceful protest is protected, violence is punished, and those responsible must pay for the damage.
Every proposed measure has been aligned with Article 47 of the Constitution of the Republic of Albania, Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights, the case law of the Strasbourg Court, and the guidelines of the Venice Commission and ODIHR on freedom of peaceful assembly.
Responsibility is always individual, any potential restrictive measures are temporary and justified, and every significant restriction is subject to judicial review.
The package consists of six complementary instruments: a normative act providing immediate compensation to small businesses, a special law on compensation for damages, several amendments to the Law on Assemblies, a dedicated electronic register of individuals involved in urban violence, an amendment to the teachers’ code of ethics, and several proposed amendments to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Albania,” Rama said.
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