PD MP Belind Këlliçi accused the majority of rushing the vote on a draft law regarding tourist ports. He emphasized that ports are not just for tourism but also strategic infrastructure, public assets, and an essential element of a state's national security. “Why is this government rushing today, and for whom is it rushing? Because for Albanians, we have never seen them hurry to lower the price of oil, they haven’t rushed to save farmers from bankruptcy, they haven’t rushed for cancer patients' medicines, or to stop money laundering. Of course, this government always rushes when it comes to its strategic clients. Today, with this draft law, it is requested that ports be given without competition, without transparency, and in a privileged manner to so-called strategic investors. This is not a law for development, but for favoring public property. Ports are not simply tourist marinas. They are strategic infrastructure, public assets, and an essential element of a state's national security. Integration is not done with words, but with standards, and standards are being violated. This is not reform, but a total capture of the state,” Këlliçi said, among other things. The head of the PS Parliamentary Group, Taulant Balla, responded by recalling that during the PD's time, boats were not even used for sailing at sea. “I followed you closely, and tourism is also a very important issue. It is one of the sectors that are engines of Albania. Regarding tourism, as a very successful history of the Albanian economy, for us, tourism has brought five things. In Albania today, compared to 2013, we have more than four times the number of tourists we had that year. Tourism brings more jobs, more income, and more well-being. Today, Albania has an offer for the Diaspora to return. The ‘Mountain Package’ or ‘Double Your Business’ are two packages that many brothers and sisters of the Diaspora are using. We have a gross domestic product of less than 10 billion in 2013. Today we are at 27 billion. You won’t find another country in the Western Balkans that has tripled its economy within this time. We have a growth forecast of 3.5%. Today here I want to express a more successful tourist season than last year's. The numbers are expected to be better. In Golem, we have at least a better increase than last year. Albania expects a tourist season where the message of the Assembly should be supportive and condemn messages of violence. Whoever thinks they can harm the economy by burning buildings with Molotov cocktails harms the economy of Albanians and tourism. To return to tourism: Porto Montenegro or Corfu should have these tourist ports, and why shouldn’t we have them? When you were in power, you didn’t want them at all. You didn’t even let boats move at sea. It was the mindset of someone who came from an area without a sea. You have a phobia of boats, even though you yourselves moved by boat and enjoyed the Ionian coast,” Balla expressed.