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He did not secure the mandate of the deputy, Alimehmeti speaks: The electoral system should be erased, it produced internal competition

Politiko 2025-05-19 09:34:01

He did not secure the mandate of the deputy, Alimehmeti speaks: The electoral

Ilir Alimehmeti, the Democratic Party's candidate for deputy in Tirana, failed to secure a mandate, even though he received 17,500 votes on the open list.

Invited to A2 CNN, Alimehmeti said that the responsibility for destroying his chance of a mandate lies with the electoral system that has produced an internal competition among each other.

Alimehmeti said that this was not a competition and that the time has come to talk about systems that work for the people, not for political figures.

"The biggest problem that the system had was that the competition should not be between each other but with the opponent, this electoral system alone is not in place to have a competition of ideas, it was transformed into an internal competition. A system that must be deleted, produces a weak parliament because it distances the parliamentarian from the citizen. My mentality, I am for majoritarianism, what we had 20 years ago was a competition. This is not called a competition. Otherwise, we would have a national proportional system. We will have increasingly weaker voices in parliament. We come to this point where the parliament rejects constitutional decisions. The problem is that where we are going, the people give us the answer that after election, the voters are fewer and fewer. The connection between the MP and them is no longer MP, they ask who is the MP of the area. They want the majoritarian. Democracy is representation for the people. We need to talk seriously about systems that work for the people, not for the heads of politics. The two main political forces, the PD-SP, have agreed and like everything, it has an effect in reverse. But in "2021 Rama made unilateral changes," said Alimehmeti.

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