They say that after the storm the sun rises, but it seems that this expression does not find a place in the Democratic Party.
As of April 26 the panorama at the blue headquarters is quite different from what it was before the April 25 election. The enthusiasm that had gripped the Democrats during the election campaign faded after the voting when the trend of the result was dictated in the counting of the first ballot boxes.
On April 26, the phrase “change is coming” was replaced by the phrase “elections were stolen”, while the legal team and from all fields started the legal battle to demand the invalidity of the elections. At a time when the lawyers in the Democratic Party started the legal battle to demand the invalidity of the elections in 9 constituencies, critics of Lulzim Basha demanded that he resign and start a process of analysis of the election results at the blue headquarters.
Three weeks after election day and after many calls from critics, last Sunday, the DP leader called on the DP Presidency and the National Council to call early elections to elect the new DP chairman for 4 years. next. But as Democrats’ attention has been focused in recent days on the internal process to elect the president who will lead the Democrats for another term, a “Twitter” of the US Secretary of State gets all the attention and sows silence in PD headquarters.
It seems that the announcement “non grata” of the former chairman of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, took the Democrats by surprise. The decision was made public at noon on Wednesday, while PD officials found it difficult to conceive. A day later the gloom in the blue headquarters was felt even more than after the election defeat. Few elected MPs arrived at the blue headquarters, while even fewer were those who could give a comment on their former chairman. Meanwhile, the question that arises for the leadership of the Democratic Party is whether they will keep Sali Berisha in the Parliamentary Group of the Democratic Party, at a time when throughout the campaign they attacked the chairman of the Democratic Party, Tom Doshi, that should not have been entered the competition, as it is subject to decriminalization automatically, as the declaration “non grata”, according to Basha, means the act of expulsion from a foreign state, which is also subject to the law of decriminalization.
Did Basha sell Berisha to the Americans ?!
There are so far three politicians in Albania who have been declared “non grata” by the US State Department. The first to take this measure was Tom Doshi. The current chairman of the PSD took this measure in February 2018. Mr. Doshi did not resign from the mandate of deputy during these years.
Doshi even decided to run in the April 25 elections, despite the numerous messages of the American ambassador against him. After much news in the media, US top diplomat Yuri Kim in a statement to the media stated that she had received assurances from the head of government that Doshi would have no role in forming the government. While after the elections, in the early hours of the morning of April 26, Doshi submitted his irrevocable resignation from the mandate of deputy.
Meanwhile, the second “non grata” politician was the former mayor of the SP in Durrës, Vangjush Dako. Even after the DASH decision to declare Dako “non grata” in 2019, Prime Minister Rama did not expel him from the SP leadership, but he decided not to run for mayor anymore. While in the elections of April 25, he was active in collecting votes for the SP. Meanwhile, the next politician declared “non grata” is already in the opposition camp. Berisha, while he is without any power, announced yesterday that he will start the legal battle, but on the other hand, we have no statement from the Basha leadership as to what will be the attitude towards Berisha.
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