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Elections, Lela: What has happened is threatening the fate of Albania's future

Politiko 2025-05-15 16:30:48

Elections, Lela: What has happened is threatening the fate of Albania's

The Director of Communications at the Democratic Party, Alfred Lela, commented on Syri TV on the electoral massacre carried out by Edi Rama on May 11.

Lela stated that the vote was trafficked and this is not the first time Rama has done this.

Alfred Lela: The vote has been trafficked, massacred. Patronized. There are all those very clear images of Vora, of Tirana. In the south, in the north, in all corners, a systemic patronage, an equally systemic intimidation.

But not only what has happened on the ground but also what in my opinion is even more serious is the interference, the state intervention to entice him to buy votes and Mr. Rama is a main actor in this, we remember that just two days before election day, voting day, he offered a broad amnesty for numerous categories of the population, so he forgave fines, he forgave bills. It is something that is prohibited by law. It is not the first time that Edi Rama has done this.

He has done it several times. The last time was in the local elections two years ago and the justification at that time was that the prime minister was not prohibited from running in local elections. He did it again in the general elections and again he was not prohibited. This speaks of involvement, of the return of power to the function of patronizing votes for the sake and favor of the ruling party, which is the Socialist Party and Rama. This is only part of the picture.

Because the OSCE-ODIHR has reflected, has concentrated part of what has happened in the interim report. We are also waiting for the preliminary report, which, by delaying what has happened during these two-three days of counting, will make the panorama of what Edi Rama's Albania is in the Election even darker, which according to Edi Rama will meet the criteria, the conditions for EU membership.

Marku: Referring to the nominal votes, some were denounced by the DP as being supported by criminal gangs. So the DP's claim was proven by the votes. The votes were found in the boxes.

Alfred Lela: This is a mechanism already built into the system. And this is what makes it threatening. It makes the system threatening for these elections, but it also makes it threatening for what is happening for the very fate of Albania's future in a democratic system, where we can say it again, whose heart is equal competition.

The killing of equal competition leads the country in uncertain directions and we will be here to prove this. Of course, it is not the opposition's alarm about the defeat, but I think it should be everyone's alarm about where the country is going. It makes no sense that a party that has been governing for 12 years with countless scandals with proven corruption in Albanian and foreign languages.

From intercepts of internationals published both in Albanian and by foreign media widely covered. With a Tirana incinerator that has received hundreds of millions of euros but does not exist, to increase its volume and popularity, This does not happen anywhere because it cannot happen. It happened in Albania. Parties are consumed by power....