Debate in the Administrative-Territorial Reform Commission between Boçi and Isai, Zhupa also joins in with retorts about SPAK

The meeting of the Special Parliamentary Commission on Administrative-Territorial Reform took place amid verbal clashes between representatives of the Democratic Party and those of the Socialist Party.

At the center of the debate were Socialist Erion Isai and Democrat Luçiano Boçi, while MP Ina Zhupa also intervened in the discussion.

Erion Isai said that he is the one who acknowledges that rural roads have not been properly maintained, and added that the discussion is about Albania, comparing the period before 2013 with the one after 2013. According to him, there was no reason why there should not have been a qualitative change in governance. Responding to a comment by Zhupa about the protests, he declared that in the past people protested and were killed, whereas today people protest and are not killed, which according to him constitutes a major qualitative difference.

Luçiano Boçi fired back, saying that protest is a beautiful thing and that it is made beautiful by those who protest, unlike the protest that, according to him, Isai had mentioned, where people went there and were later killed. He added that when someone comes to kill, perhaps that can happen as well, reminding Isai that he knows those events and asking him not to take on the role of prosecutor and judge.

Isai then declared that the only problem is that more pelicans gather in the square than owls.

Boçi reacted briefly by telling him: “Stop it now.”

Isai continued by saying that he knows how people were killed, because he was a student at the Academy of Arts and personally took part in the protest.

At that moment, Ina Zhupa intervened with a question directed at Isai: “Mr. Isai, were you at SPAK today?”

Isai replied that he is curious about those who go to applaud at SPAK’s door and asked when exactly they applaud. He said that he had been there and that he will go whenever necessary. He further added that the other side views SPAK through two magnifying glasses, once during protests and once when they mention it.

Boçi then addressed him with another retort, asking him to clarify also from the perspective of the “natural classification” whether those who go to SPAK fall among birds or animals.

Isai concluded by saying that they belong to the people who accept justice.