Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) MP Drita Lola announced that she will donate her parliamentary salary to charity in the future.
"Vijesti" announced two days ago that since December last year she has not participated in the work of the state parliament and its working bodies, but that she regularly receives a parliamentary salary, so in ten months she has earned more than 17 thousand euros on that basis.
"Since December 2024, it is true that I have been in the United States of America for family and personal reasons, aspects that the Democratic Party of Socialists is well aware of in detail. In addition to my physical absence, it is also true that my engagement through media reactions has been limited, with the last reaction in October being a public support for a colleague from the party. Aware of the complexity of the entire socio-political situation in the country and the fact that the discourse has been extremely focused on the past of the Democratic Party of Socialists, and not on the systematic collapse of institutions by the authorities, my position, which was communicated to the party leadership, was and remains that it is crucial for the Democratic Party of Socialists and the future of the state to find a way to free itself from its past and focus on the opposition struggle that will protect, above all, the institutions that have been painstakingly built and with the support of our Euro-Atlantic partners," Lola wrote on her account on the X network.
She added that she rejects any attempt to turn her decision to express her views in a way that I believe is appropriate to the context and moment in which society finds itself into a caricature:
"And even less so that personal and family circumstances are used to question my moral character. I will certainly not make the decision to possibly hand over my mandate, which I hinted at in my first response to Vijesti, under pressure or conditioning. In accordance with my possibilities, until I am physically present in parliament, I will be more active on all political issues, while in the future I will donate my parliamentary salary to charity," said Lola.
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