No Language Law debate in Parliament this week either

No date has been set yet for the Parliament debate on the 35,569 amendments to the Law on the Use of Languages. The law extends the official use of Albanian over the entire country, and it was passed on February 11. A week later, however, the President vetoed it and sent it back to Parliament, which was followed by an unprecedented number of amendments submitted by the opposition.

Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi’s cabinet told reporters that the amendments had been translated and that they were presently being processed and categorized, but the date for their debate was yet to be decided.

They were put on the agenda of Parliament’s 32nd session as item number 8, which had to be skipped as technical conditions for the debate had not been met. This session’s agenda includes changes to the travel expenses of MPs and the Law on Mineral Resources in an expedited procedure, as well as other financial plans, decisions, and reports.

Xhaferi held a regular coordination meeting Monday morning, but no new plenary sessions, or extensions of existing ones, were scheduled.

One of the explanations for this was the absence of many MPs, who are currently away on business or attending seminaries abroad.