This draft resolution is what is required from this Parliament today, the Republic of Albania and the Albanian citizens to support the membership of the Albanian state in the European Union in 2030.

This initiative that comes to life with this resolution has nothing to do with the comments that have been made by different sources.

Secret goals have been fantasized, such as putting SPAK under control, or it has been propagated that we have reminded ourselves, after 10 years, to fight corruption. No!

We have been at war with corruption for 10 years!

That is why the reform in justice happened along with the birth of SPAK itself, which had, has and will have, at least as long as I am here, the unconditional support of this majority.

SPAK is the bitter medicine, drink it, you die, and whoever drinks it once yes and once no, like the rest of you, it has no chance of self-cleansing and moving forward, but only prolongs the agony.

Precisely because we have been fighting corruption for 10 years, the radical transformation of public services has also taken place, through digitalization, along with the end of endless queues and permanent tips for a birth certificate.

Even the reform of public procurement, together with 1 billion euros saved from tenders and Albania’s ascension from the last place to the first, in the regional ranking for this field, that is why the opening of negotiations for Albania’s membership in the European Union took place.

Even the criminal processes for officials of all levels, with their investigations, accusations, and punishments, are taking place precisely because the war started seriously 10 years ago, against corruption, a war that is irreversible.

Therefore, who sits and counts, “this one was called and that one was called, this one was arrested, that one was arrested, this one was convicted, and that one was convicted”, turning the political and media opposition into a mud pit with the illusion that it will return people against the reform, will simply sink itself day by day in that mud, will be reduced by impotence and blackened by resentment.

Those who do not understand that without our state-making vision and will, none of this would have happened, or they do not want to admit that the wheel of history has turned for this country, or they do not have the strength to believe that Albania, which could not be ameliorated by them, is being ameliorated by us, or then they have nothing of value to say and they talk without stopping, trying exactly this, accompanied by their shoulders on the table.

While those who remember that the fight against corruption in a new democratic state, which until 10 years ago had semi-free elections, is a war that is fought by knocking on the kettle, they have no idea how far they are from the reality of this war.

This is not a vulgar struggle for power, but it is a struggle for democratic statehood, for functional institutions, for state, institutional, social mechanisms that reduce, step by step, the high influence of human subjectivity on every part of the constitutional and legal machinery, in the functioning of the Republic, strengthening the rule of law over the subjects that operate and interact among themselves or with the state and their good governance.

The initiative that comes to life with this resolution stems from the need to deepen this war and reflects the increased level of the challenge of Albania’s membership in the European Union with all the obligations that stem from it.

Colleagues from the parliamentary group and the government will certainly provide full details on this new reform plan, so I will close with two key points.

The first is for all Albanians. We are fully aware that corruption in Albania is a cancer inherited from the Ottoman transactional society and the capitalism of the half-transition state, which our government with a vision of reforms and giving up political control of justice has begun to repel, but still has not overcome it and therefore corruption is a disturbing phenomenon.

This is why we and no one else come to this Parliament today with this initiative, which clearly proves that this political force in the government, not only has no complacency or fatigue with power, but has such an inner power to change the country and undergoes the constant self-change that makes it the only serious opposition of itself.

The second point is addressed to the deputies outside the perimeter of the Socialist Party in this hall. Just as the reform in justice was not stopped, this new initiative in its continuation is not stopped either, therefore my call is to vote today on the draft resolution and if you did not find the strength to do so, do not boycott the Special Parliamentary Committee. I have said it repeatedly, access your memories, 10 years ago: “don’t do this, don’t do that, do this, look do this,” and we still have done it. Not because I am smarter than you, but because you have never wanted to learn that looking down your nose makes a seemingly very short path infinitely long, and that is why we are here and are you there.

I hope you will see, what we started 10 years ago will end 5 years later when the flag of Albania, whether you like it or not, will be ready to hang in the courtyard of the states of the European Union in Brussels!