Lirak Cellaj addresses the public letter to Wessel: Purifications, not reforms, took place in PDK, save the party from this path

Former Pristina chairman Lirak Celiaj has sent a public letter to PDK chairman Kadri Veselini.

The key through this letter has said it is hoping to stop certain actions that are damaging the party and Wessel to save PDK from this path it has taken.

I still think you're a very good man, but you're surrounded by people who are advising you not to be who you were, but to be someone else.” wrote among other things Celay.

For more, read Lirak Chelley's full letter:

Public Letter
Mr. PDK chairman. Kadri Wessel

Your Honor, Mr. Chairman. Vesel

Worried with the course of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, I as one of the founders and one of its earliest activists, to whom I devoted all my skills and knowledge, decided to address you with this public letter in the hope that you will hear my public voice, after the public indifference manifested within the party, and in the hope that you will stop some actions that harm it and save the party from this path it has taken.

Each time, as you and the other members of the Party forums will have remembered, I have expressed these concerns earlier than at party forums, even in private conversations, but unfortunately I don't see them being taken into account. So I decided that the debate would open with hope and desire that something would change.

Not for curiosity, but honestly I have enjoyed your coming to the PDK, and then at the top of it. Appreciated above all as a man and as a courageous activist who has given much to this country, I have believed many that you will make the necessary changes, especially those rules that did not help advance the party, installed in this subject by ignorance, or the narrow interests of influential individuals, I have waited on other members of the Party who have chosen silence as a disappointment, that you will bring the party back membership and install internal democracy. I believe you will do what you say. Unfortunately it didn't happen like that.

I still consider you to be a very good man, but you are surrounded by people who are admonishing you not to be who you were but to become someone else. That the party should not defend and identify with the values it is founded on, which it has protected and which make up PDK DNA, but now you must be “culler”. The practice that the humble, those who act as a tou, says the “chief”, as high as the party or in leadership positions has only hurt it even more PDK. In most cases, there are individuals who act as puppets, avatars, like the Lulzim Basha model, which was never seen differently than Sali Berisha's puppets. So the tendency to be somebody's people in leadership positions, because with them, we do things as we wish, have damaged the Party and its fundamental goals and are continuing to damage it. Practices have been developed where developing a political career are done, not with hard work and good efforts for the Party and the country, in structures, but by carrying the purse to the mayor, or by applauding them indiscretion.
What was never regulated is internal democracy, where elections are only formally made to “entered” individuals “avatar” and to submit as the will of structures, in fact without consulting them.

The latest case with the choice of headship is the most flagrant violation of the right to protect the Party's Status, where each member has the right to choose and be elected in all party instances. So you have appointed a group of people and you have not allowed democratic competition to develop as democracy does. You have ignored the confidence of PDK structures by putting people who like your associates ahead, but not the Party. Even people who are not part of the Steering Council, people who have been reviled until yesterday PDK, people who, apart from servilism, represent no other value. Of course, there are very good and valuable people in that Head, but I'm only talking about part of it. As a part of the new headship seems, she would be envious of the Shpend Ahmeti PSD (not this of Dardan Moliqaj).

The PDK has long been ashamed of its identity involving the KLA, former political prisoners, but other patriotic activists and intellectuals tested in the storms the country has been through. It has begun to be interpreted as something old-fashioned, so image-changing advice has been accepted, change of identity, convert “to cool”.
On behalf of the so-called reform, by some of your associates, but very supportive, more has been done than reform. I'm not against bringing new frameworks, on the contrary, I think it's necessary, but that there should be a criterion and a way, without harming other activists and an opportunity to witness these Quadros and gain the trust of many through forms of activity on the ground.

In the last election, we came up with the worst outcome ever. The PDK sometimes and let alone that no one claimed responsibility for this failure, but the opposite occurred, all those in the election headquarters were re-elected and advanced. This seems to have been rewarded for their loss.
As long as there's been a commitment that individuals assigned to come out as many votes as possible, I think it's better to engage in better party performance than individuals.

I consider it the last time the decision-making is to turn the party around, increase transparency and democracy, stop the practice of raising individuals who can't walk on their own, but only on the boss' side and without falling down immediately.
I tell you sincerely, with some who have been led by us, and to whom you have delegated much power, I am not identified at all with their past or present. On behalf of reform you are undermining PDK DNA.

Some of those whom you have set before us still remind you of the significant proverb that the camel was giving out its soul, and its owner asks for it, and the camel makes it all right unless she had put it before the caravan. I'm getting it over with too.
In the hope that this letter will not be found in deaf ears and will not be misunderstood, but will be taken as a contribution of my goodwill for the general good, I greet you.

Respectfully
Lirak Celij, member of the General Council of the Democratic Party of Kosovo.
Pristina, January 4th 2020.