demonstrations apologizing that he couldn't be with them that's understandable he was imprisoned in yemen sooth the rebels say they've targeted a son of the airport with a drone for the 4th time since wednesday riyadh has neither confirmed nor denied the attack on board close to the yemeni border on saturday a military spokesman for the who these want people to stay away from airports in saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. and renewed fighting between ethnic groups in the democratic republic of congo has killed at least 160 people nearly 40 villages were destroyed and more than 100000 people have been forced to flee in the eastern province in the past week and gunmen have killed at least 34 villages in nigeria's north western states. hundreds of people have died in the region this year those were the headlines about with more news in half an hour here on al-jazeera next it's talk 12 do stay with us. i'm counting the cost and. the balance is growing bigger kaname go wrong for modi so soon after

his landslide election victory plus no longer the world's garbage can china disrupted the multi-billion dollar global way from destroying counting the costs on al-jazeera. to. overarching national goal is to join the european union prime minister doesn't think the country is ready for membership partly because its political institutions are underdeveloped that has been on display in the past week as political parties have disagreed on when to hold local elections nationwide they were scheduled for june 30th the opposition democratic party now wants that date pushed back and hasn't fielded mayoral candidates the ruling socialists of roma want to proceed regardless with the candidates they've registered the deadlock has added to

skepticism in the european union about whether albania is ready to join today on talk to al-jazeera the prime minister of. thank you prime minister for talking to today i want to start by asking you about the country's european prospects which is the major political issue facing this country for many. years now a few weeks ago the european union held parliamentary elections across the continent and millions of people voted albania wants to join the european union but seems unable to hold you know support elections is albania ready to join the european union. no alban is not ready to join european union because. this is still a long way ahead but of course we are ready to start accession talks for which we have already. committed and. delivered based on the

commission reports and the recommendation to the member states to consider opening accession talks with me and north macedonia. want would albania bring to the european union more and more europeans are asking what does albania have to offer the e.u. . i'm not sure that. the majority of europeans that. deal with political affairs are where that will be nia and the western balkans are surrounded by e.u. borders so we are somehow an organ of the body that is dragging. out of the body but is not. simply fading away but is

there so the choice is very simple. let this organ bleed and create. troubles to the whole by the as it happened in the past should have been a reason why the 2 world wars started about guns or helped this organ to integrate and help the body to get organised so. it's not about enlargement is about the completion is about it's about a very important piece of the puzzle because an area as i said within the european union that should not be left as an open space for other actors that may not be very keen to. see the european union progress and prosper now you have

a very tense political situation inside the country at the moment i want to ask you about your dispute over the constitution with president ileum at that. article 92 of the constitution clearly states that the president not you sets the date of elections for the assembly and the organs of local power the local elections of june 30th so why do you feel you have the right to override the president's decision or change of a decision on the date of the next local election. last thing i wish in my in my daily work is 2 and 3 legal disputes because you know legal disputes are always complicated there are always. matter of different opinions and let alone have a legal dispute with you but i should tell you very simply that yes there is. there

is a clear indication that the president is the one that. has to set the dates for the elections but there is a frame clear frame. you know we're electoral law. that the president has. a very. different well defined space of maneuver in picking dates and this being said. the constitution and all the constitutions all the worlds where there is a parliamentary republic say that the president can pick a date but no one so that the president can undo that so undoing. your own decree he's a novelty for the history of what i meant to republics but the president in his

legal opinion which he delivered on monday 18 pages sites 3 presidents 4 previous presidents overturning what had been an established state in one case for general election and in 2 cases for local elections so it is not without precedent it is without precedent because. when local elections have been have been postponed it has happened. in times when we didn't have the same legal frame and legal frame has been has been consolidated exactly to avoid the repetition of this think and one general elections were postponed 2 years ago. based on an agreement between parties it was only one week within the constitutional and

legal frame and it was based on a consensus of all political parties and the then predecessor of our actual president as asked did by return because otherwise he could not undo. your immediate reaction to the president's position was that you were going to have him dismissed and what we heard was that thursday's parliamentary debate was going to be a motion for parliament to ask for the president's removal but that didn't happen the resolution you brought instead to censure the president i want to ask you what was your constitutional basis for asking for the president's removal the constitution states that the president may be dismissed for serious violations of the constitution do you think that the change of the date was such

a serious violation 1st of all to her. was inaccurate and again i have to repeat that. we live in a so far far world of news that there is no more time of fact checking we didn't say that we would start the procedure of impeachment on thursday we just said that yes we will start the procedure of impeachment but there are steps so the 1st step was to to based on our on our law. it was to. take note of the facts and come out with the resolution of the parliament taking note of the fact that the constitution has been breached really violently because you know. how possibly in the world and never happened before in the world. at

least in the part of the world where we have democratic but i meant to republics that once the elections have started once the complaint has started the president can say i'm sorry i have to undo the date it doesn't happen so this is one this is the this is the stunning violation of the constitution the president said that he acted out of concern for public security and democratic stability and your political opponent democratic party leader losing. yesterday on thursday called upon the citizens of albania to act and i shall quote from morsi told me. in a way that european citizens are forced to act when they are faced with the

prospects of an effective coup that. it isn't clear what he means by that but it is clear that he means some sort of action are you at all concerned. about what may happen if you proceed with local elections on june 30th and do you think it's responsible to proceed i'm not sure if it's interesting for your audience to entering all these details. but i think that 1st of all the constitution does not allow the president to. use his office for concerns or for imagination because there is very clear. the president in our constitution is. is not the. institution that has to deal upon or or things like that so it's ridiculous. on the other hand it's important i think for your audience thank you

for giving the party to understand what's happening out there now because this is this is you know. where from where everything then unfolds so the world has seen in the last 3 months maybe pictures of. heavy stuff like protestors coming here and throwing molotov. trying to a sold the building and of course you know it's concerning but when you see it from fire you think that the reason i praise of the people it's not the people it's just . an old and it's quite obscure politics of group of a present for president of the people that have a big concern the have a concern without justice reform and they were concerned with the possibility of

opening the negotiations now which would imply start immediately with 2 chapters of justice and then of course would imply there will be no has to shoulder is a state of rule of law and it's not just about being ok in the paper but it's also about having the capacity to indict and convict. you know. big guys. so we are now in a process of vetting of old judges and prosecutors from the old system and. many of them are already kicked off because of not being able to to show to prove the legitimacy of their wealth and so we will have the whole system. in place with judges that get out clean and interior from the vatican so after 30 years we'll have

a justice system that will be not any more. you know maneuvered by politicians the last year opin commission report. cites the need for more progress on high level prosecutions in organized crime particularly drug related crime more high level convictions and indictments. do you think that albania does have a problem with organized crime. of course i think will be you know the problems we're going to ask right and corruption as every country that is not yet a modern functioning state that's why we are in this process that's why we're not members of the e.u. or that's why the i'm not pretending that. it's an injustice is that we are not members today we need to prepare we need to modernize and fighting corruption and fighting. organized crime is about very strong willed but it's about very strong

institutions and very strong mechanisms and functioning. in every direction this being said. if i turn my had. 5 years and a half ago and. i see from where we come we have done we have done impressively but if i see forward where we want to go and where i aim to bring the country. raise much more to this is part of the problem managing the expectations. then ian's really want to go to europe now and many of them leaving we hear as many as $50000.00 a year according to some estimates because in albania salaries rarely brize above $400.00 and they want not only the prosperity but the legal structures and the

source of society that they can enjoy in europe how do you explain the fact that despite these years of hard work and reforms albanian per capita g.d.p. remains pretty much stuck at $400000.00 and albanian unemployment even though it's come down a very long way still a 12 percent and 22 percent of the young. listen. how do you explain that. it's earth or a question that last year. in germany there were 100000 crowds crowds a number of european union. much more ahead of us with registered in german labor offices i explain that portugal has has a quite the same process of a period of reforms and some good results and there are 50000 people leaving.

how do you explain that the south of italy is empty. by people leaving to the north and the north is you know in trouble for medical doctors. that are leaving it's it's one of the most excellent systems of health care in europe and still they say you know we're missing but it all doctors. are explaining that this is happening in every country now yes of course. we leave you know big global village it's not there more like it was than or 20 years ago people see much more opportunities and i realize that better better you do more you want it's not like you know people that leave. in. total poverty they lose the capacity to have you wouldn't missions you know but

people that started to move out from poverty of course they want to go to have more so it's not something that. there is a magic to fix and i always say you know expectations are the more are the biggest the biggest enemy. of every government that comes with a lot of support but in same time what i think is what we need to do is to not let the new generation the generation of my little kids were little kids to lose but it's also about attracting investments and capital from even your neighbors and that seems to be very difficult for albanians to do because it's earned a reputation for being rather very system of governance not a transparent assessment of investments there are high profile cases of investments that didn't happen like club on the south coast and there's also

a connection to organized crime in this perception. among albanians we hear many people voicing opinions that. there are so many members of parliament even government ministers who appear to be colluding with organized criminal rings that they seem not to care about the legitimate economy but the illegitimate economy and that the only way to do business in albania is to be in some way illegitimate this is the perception not only of albanians but also of many foreign investors how do you combat that. again 3rd time in the interview have to say yes there's always some truth. in this kind of here saying it's the kind of perception but in the same time

i realize more and more in the hard way there is no bigger lie than the half truth so. now you you legitimate say what is the truth don't ask me shall one of the biggest companies in the world. d.a.p. trying to drive a pipeline. other investors that are working in this country and listen from them if this perception meets with their reality of work. secondly albania based on the world bank and my my you know wishful thinking created last year more than half of new jobs in the region. thirdly. we had. the 2nd highest level

of point investments in the region last year. so. it's it's a big fight and this perception is also a big problem to fault with but again if i turn the had to 5 years. and a half ago when we were elected. when we entered office and i see it now we have changed a lot we have done things that nobody imagined before. now if i have to see the reality not the perception yes there is a lot of truth in what you say but the good news is that we are fighting like hell every day to improve you face

a controversial local election which you have said you are resolved to hold without the participation of the opposition. i want to ask you whether it wouldn't be more responsible to consider. meeting with the president who has invited you along with all the other person is to talk about a consensual date that would be uncontroversial. rather than hold an election that may also contain unpleasant surprises when you see the president when you answer his call as opposed to leader 1st of all. we are not in this electoral process. alone because we have. excluded the opposition. we are in this letter process of law because the opposition has self. excluded. so please recently itself based on its own strategy they have walked

out of parliament they have burnt the mandates they've taken the molotov they have transformed themselves in the yellow vests. and the have been gauged in the creation of the image of an image of a brain that is not not the result of people operates but is the result of a set up. now. it seems that the reasonable way would be to say ok guys you look crazy. so now we have to settle and let's postpone elections but it's not what will be deserve and it's not what the future is about because if we set the precedent that a party to party street parties one side decided to to impose.

the disruption and election. terms can be decided upon this eruption and it will have its were many years to come one part of the day another party tomorrow another but it's not about what we are fighting for we are fighting for a state where there is rule of law where politicians are. equal in front of the lowers every citizen and not above the law and the v.n. the elections is not is not made for the politicians to decide is made for the people to decide about the politicians so we have the duty to go to the people and the people have the right to judge us. in this judgement or transforming. this very basic basic. element of our democratic life to be it's going in

a direction which is not our future. it's a past prime minister thank you for talking to others or thinking of.

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