Taravari: Alliance for the Albanians to revel conditions for voting on constitutional amendments next week
Skopje, 23 October 2022 (MIA) – Arben Taravari, acting president of the Alliance for the Albanians party, in an interview with RFE/RL on Sunday said MPs of the Alliance for the Albanians in principle will vote for constitutional amendments, but they impose conditions, which they will present to the "important embassies in Macedonia" during the next week.
“The second condition is to remove the term 20 percent from the Constitution, to practically use both Macedonian and Albanian as official languages. But the first condition is going to be very interesting, which will present first to important embassies in Macedonia,” Taravari said.
According to him, the conditions of the Alliance for the Albanians were prepared with international experts, who gave "both ideas and suggestions that would be good for the whole country".
“I think that it will not be rejected by any political party in Macedonia,” Taravari said.
He said that the Alliance for Albanians is ready for early elections sometime in March-April if elections are held, but he thinks that in this period of crisis the parties should be united.
“I insisted on a non-party caretaker government even earlier,” Taravari said.
He denied claims that he met with the DUI leader Ali Ahmeti and the Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski for possible negotiations to be part of the Government.
According to him, the Alliance for Albanians has the capacity and is open to make coalitions, but above all the party is interested in its structure and bringing about change in the Albanian political bloc.
“I think that whenever the next parliamentary elections are held, the Alliance for Albanians will win and be part of the Government. If not, I would definitely leave politics,” Taravari noted.
“The policies of the Alliance for the Albanians remain the same. We also have a large number of intellectuals who are joining the Alliance for the Albanians for the first time, and I hope that next week we will promote them,” Taravari said in an interview with interview with RFE/RL.