Albania's opposition is promoting north-south divisions as in 1997

The opposition is promoting divisions between the northern citizens of Albania and those south of the country.

So stated the chairman of the Law Commission and Socialist Party deputy Ulsi Manja during a TV interview yesterday afternoon, broadcasting at the scene. Bringing to the attention in 1997, Manja said the same opposition that armed northern Albanians against southern Albanians would fail in the same story they are repeating, in promoting divisions between the north and the south.

“I call on this opposition, which is the cause of gasoline bottle and violence, to give up this way of making politics, because we are all Albanians, both north and south and the government has been elected by civic vote. Berisha has tried the 1997 secession policy, but failed. Here are citizens, you know 1997, you know in 1998 where the opposition armed northern Albanians against the south, but fortunately Albanians are 10 steps ahead of this political class that we have. So this time it's failed, because in the protest that happened in Kukes, and so do those protests he staged in front of the Tirana and Kukes Police Directorate left with a handful of militants, which, in his DNA and politics, knows nothing other than violence, gasoline and fire deployment”.

He considered the behaviour of democratic deputies today at the tribunal's doors ugly, saying they have violated not only MP status, but also pressured the Police Directorate in Tirana.

“Madje is an ugly behaviour even of my opposition MP colleagues, in absolute violation of MP status, pressure at the Police Directorate in Kukes and Tirana, and at that ugly display at the doors of justice”, Manja said.

At that, he added, the “is unfortunate that the Democratic Party, whenever Albanians have approached the rule of law to open the doors of Europe we want to go to, Albania has been unexpectedly ambushed and unfortunately the Democratic Party of Albania has been forced, with gasoline, with war of”.