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Paloka: "Bulgarian Train" evidence of bought votes! Task force was used against the opposition

Politiko 2025-06-25 16:23:04

Paloka: "Bulgarian Train" evidence of bought votes! Task force was

MP and head of the DP National Council, Edi Paloka, spoke today about the May 11 elections, focusing on the "Bulgarian Train" phenomenon, for which there have also been video denunciations. 

Invited to Syri TV, Paloka stated that the DP's denunciations constitute part of the manipulations. According to him, what Berisha presents are phenomena that have been used throughout Albania and are not specific details as Celibashi and Rama's people are trying to present.

Paloka says that the "Bulgarian Train" is simply vote control, not direct vote manipulation. According to him, the vote was bought, taken under pressure, and those who were taken in this way were then controlled with the Bulgarian Train, controlled with marks on the ballot paper, and in many other ways.

Paloka has further leveled accusations against the justice system, saying that the latter are captured by the government. According to Paloka, if justice were functioning in this country, these things would certainly not happen.

He further adds that the Task Force was to capture the opposition and acted only against the opposition. 

Edi Paloka:  What Mr. Berisha has revealed is part of the manipulation. Because every fact that Mr. Berisha has revealed is what we have identified. We must bear in mind that there are some of these that have not been identified by the opposition yet. Some are in the process, some may not even be identified.

But what Mr. Berisha has presented are phenomena, they are not isolated details. Because here Celibashi and the CEC are also trying to play, of course under Rama's orders. They present these facts as details and then put them on the scale. Well, how much have they influenced. Because this is a repeated story. There were a few votes here and a few votes there. Not all of these are phenomena that have been used throughout Albania. Starting with the "Bulgarian Train" which is the evidence of the bought vote. Because the "Bulgarian Train", you know, is simply the control of the vote, it is not the direct manipulation of the vote. The vote was bought, it was taken under pressure and those who were taken in this form are then controlled with the Bulgarian train, they are controlled with marks on the ballot paper and in many other ways.

So I say it again. What Mr. Berisha is presenting are facts that represent widespread phenomena throughout Albania. Mr. Berisha today does not know if there was a table that was not presented. But in addition to these that Mr. Berisha has presented that are documented facts during the campaign, another phenomenon occurs that I had in some of my areas here from Farka and above. In the former municipalities of Tirana. Those prohibitions that are made by law today to Albanian citizens who must obtain a permit from the municipality even to fix the tiles of the house or to paint with lime or that villager to build a toilet today must obtain a permit from the municipality. During the campaign, he told everyone that you can do whatever you want because we do not control you. Permits were given for towers in Tirana, for the election campaign. So there are a series of legal violations made consciously by the government and the facts have been revealed.

There is no justice. If justice worked in this country, these things certainly wouldn't happen.

The Task Force was to catch the opposition. What did the task force do? Apart from the usual show that measures would be taken, it was practically used only against the opposition. When it happened that some deputies or candidates for deputies blocked or caught people in the act of buying and selling votes, the task force would ban or prosecute the DP deputies.

Justice prosecuted the DP deputies for blocking the road. In Kurbin, the husband of deputy Elda Hoti was arrested because he caught in the middle of the night in his neighborhood, those who were committing electoral crimes were selling votes and buying votes in the middle of the night, Who was convicted. Elda Hoti's husband was arrested. So what justice. Justice has long been at the service of Edi Rama.

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