The afternoon session in the Parliament of Albania started with debates as the opposition MPs blocked the pulpit as soon as Speaker Lindita Nikolla read the agenda.

The debate started when the Speaker of the Assembly was presenting the agenda. Gazment Bardhi requested the floor for the procedure, but this was not accepted. This caused the opposition MPs to stand up and block the pulpit, which then aggravated the verbal conflict with harsh words.

The debates have de-escalated into a physical clash between the deputy of the SP, Vullnet Sinaj, who took the floor to talk about the agenda, while the deputies of the DP, standing up, asked him to stop.

At one point, Bledion Nallbati went to Vullnet Sinaj and turned off his microphone, pushing him and further hitting him with his fists. Other DP deputies, such as Flamur Noka and Edi Paloka, were also involved in the confrontation.

It took the intervention of the Guard to calm the situation. A few minutes after the clash in the Assembly, the speaker Lindita Nikolla announced the immediate exception of the MP Nallbati.

Afterwards, former Prime Minister Sali Berisha delivered his speech in the Assembly after the expelling of Devolli’s deputy, Bledion Nallbati.

For Berisha, the whole scene was a low and thuggish provocation.

“This scene that you see today, this scene that constitutes a low, thuggish provocation towards the opposition, is created by the fact that these criminals in the government, these thieves who have lost every ethical, moral and legal norm exclude us, the opposition deputies, from our constitutional rights of the deputy.

One of the most fundamental constitutional rights of the deputy in the parliament is his right, together with 35 other deputies, to set up a parliamentary investigative commission to make transparency about the big problems that he considers.

This right sanctioned by the constitution cannot be denied to anyone. The collection of signatures for a parliamentary investigative commission is automatically the establishment of the commission. Those who believe they can kick the constitution, these are thugs, these are a shameful bunch who have no morals and no law,” said former Prime Minister Sali Berisha.