Will the DP exclude Berisha from the new parliament?

The Democratic Party, the largest (PD) in the opposition in Albania and its chairman, Basha, are ahead of taking or not a significant decision for their future: to exclude or keep Berisha's historic leader in their new parliamentary group? Independent Tirana analysts in previous opinions given to DW have expressed, that the DP's <x1->off is Basha's partition from Berisha”.

Currently, the US clearly requires that the historic leader of the DP, former prime minister and former president, Sali Berisha, be no part of the DP's deputies in the new parliament. The request comes after the US State Department decision, (DASH) for Berisha's announcement “unwanted person”, which due to the <x3d> corrupts affecting democracy in Albania” is prohibited access to US territory.

American Ambassador to Tirana Yuri Kim pressured the DP on Friday, 30.07) to exclude its former leader, Sali Berisha, from MPs from the new parliamentary group, issued by the 2021 Parliamentary Election, writes DW.

In a statement to reporters, given at the DP headquarters, after meeting with its chairman, Lulzim Basha, US Ambassador Yuri Kim, stressed on Friday “the responsibility of party leaders to ensure that when they enter parliament be accompanied by members deserving to represent Albania”.

Even though the American ambassador did not mention Berisha's name in her statement to reporters from the DP headquarters after meeting with Basha, there was no ecuivok, which was referring to Berisha, in the context of his DAS name, <x0 person, who has committed” corruption acts that affect democracy in Albania. ”
In the executive order of US President Joe Biden, early June of this year for suspending US entry and blocking the assets of persons destabilizing the Western Balkans, corruption was considered the <x0 threat of US national security to its friends and allies, including Albania. ”

Sali Berisha himself, the DP deputy re-elected in the 2021 Parliamentary Election, has declared after the UN decision to him that “looks forward to being in the new Parliament.”

Kim: Historical irony, tragedy for Albania

If this happens American Ambassador Yuri Kim predicts to be the historical “tragedy for Albania”. “If the PD “would eat bar” for the sake of a man's interests,” it further clarified in the statement to journalists.

Berisha, who has called them “pa base” the UN ruling against him and filed suit at the Court of Correcting Paris against him. WAS “for public slander”, reiterated on Friday, 30.07) that “is the MP who will proudly sit in his seat in Parliament with a greater motivation than ever. No slander, fiction or invention could ever prevent Sali Berisha from fulfilling the mission that has been entrusted to Albanian voters,”, he stressed in a press release.

DP: Right to the future or stuck to the past?

Chairman DP, Lulzim Basha, who won third term to lead The DP in this year's 13 June elections, following three consecutive election losses, has so far given no signal in the direction the US requires. He has called for the “Roparency facts from the UN” and has named Berisha, following the announcement of the decision by the UN” the Albanian leader who has made the most important contribution to the country's development and strengthening democracy,<x3 points that conflict with the above-mentioned decision, where the reasons for stopping US entry are determined by the “corrupts affecting democracy in Albania. ”

Basha's so-called position on Berisha is clear, even though the DP leader has avoided public statements concerning this matter even after his mayor's re-election. But now he has to solve it within weeks, before September 12th, when the new Parliament begins work.

“I hope everyone can rest well in August, but also to return fresh and renewed in their determination to choose the future against the past, the American Ambassador Yuri Kim stressed in her statement to the media.

Basha's so-called stand on the UN decision foretells difficulties in making the decision clearly imposed by the US, against “political father”, as seen in the Basha-Berisha report, since 2013, when the latter resigned from the DP's 23-year chairmanship following the loss of the Parliamentary Elections and successor was elected Lulzim Basha.
Following strong US pressure, PD forums are expected to make a decision on the development as soon as possible by membership for or against Berisha's entry into the new Parliament. Fatbadh Kadill, a member of the DP's Headship, who competed in this year's June 13th mayoral race, declared in the social media that he has called on the <x0-democrats to look to the future, to be separated from any corrupt legacy, which holds us hostage, no matter how emotional they connect us to him. ”