TIRANA, August 15 – President Bajram Begaj has quietly approved the law on the cultivation of medical cannabis and the law that forces medical students to work for 5 years in Albania after finishing their studies to receive their diplomas. While the 20-day deadline for the decreeing of laws expired on Monday, the head of state has chosen to speak with his silence, using the path recognized by the Constitution, according to which laws are considered approved even by the President in cases when he does not publish decrees.
This was the path that Bajram Begaj chose, on the one hand to satisfy the government and on the other hand, to avoid the pressure of public opinion, which opposed both of these laws.
Although he met the medical students in a meeting and assured them that he will seriously consider the arguments presented by them that oppose the law, which holds their diplomas hostage for 5 years, Begaj chose not to return the law for reconsideration, but passed it in silence.
While he spent a year in the office of the head of state, the only law that President Bajram Begaj has returned for reconsideration to the Parliament was the one on decorations with the argument that the powers of the President of the Republic were violated, while all other laws of the ‘Rama’ government, have been approved by him. /argumentum.al
