Another parliamentary session shifted from political debate to personal attacks. After midnight, a tense clash was recorded in Parliament between the head of the Democratic Party parliamentary group, Gazment Bardhi, and Socialist Party MP Zegjine Çaushi, with tones that pushed any discussion of substance into the background.
The exchange that brought the debate down to a personal level
During his remarks, Bardhi addressed the Socialist MP by mentioning her uncle, who had been handcuffed following accusations by his former cohabiting partner of violence and of wounding her father with a sharp object.
He then addressed Çaushi with the words: “Did your uncle get you married? Did he get you married? Stay in your seat there, because I am speaking.”
The Socialist MP’s response
For her part, Zegjine Çaushi asked to respond and answered Bardhi back in the same personal register.
“You should look after your own troubles, Gazo, did you get married yourself or not?” was her reply in the chamber.
Political accusations intertwined with insults
In the same intervention, Bardhi also made political accusations about the way the state functions, saying: “I will give this other piece to him. Another friend of mine will bring the oil and he will take it, the gas will go to that other one. This is the state you have built. You have nothing to do with the law.”
His claims were voiced in the middle of a debate that had already shifted from public issues to personal blows, without any further clarification in the chamber regarding the accusations made.
The session that lost its core
Çaushi continued in a scornful tone also toward Bardhi’s role in the Fier district, declaring that elections are won more convincingly when facing “a political leader” like him.
The clash between the two MPs once again turned the session into a scene of personal exchanges, a familiar picture in Parliament, where political noise often takes the place of accountability on issues affecting citizens.
The post-midnight incident left little room for substantive parliamentary debate and much more for yet another episode in the degradation of political language in the parliamentary chamber.