TIRANA, Aug 3 – Socialist party leader Edi Rama said that his political party needed to create a new political alliance this autumn in their fight against political instability and to tackle the problems of daily life in Albania, especially the lack of power and water supply.
The opposition came out with serious conflicts and divisions among itself after the election of the president last month, the main conflict being inside the main Socialist party where their former leader, Fatos Nano, who Socialists did not support in the presidential race, has said he will resume an internal fight to clean the party.
Rama said it was time to sit down with the people and hold a new roundtable with them to discuss the country’s issues. The times called for a new alliance for a new Albania, he said.
The socialist leader denied there was a crisis among the opposition five political parties, calling them media creations.
He insisted that politics should go out among the people in order to create a new politics.
Rama said openly that he did not consider Fatos Nano as part of the Socialsit party any more, blaming him for the election of the new president, Bamir Topi, from the governing Democratic Party.
“Together with Sali Berisha they (Nano included) are the obstacle we should get rid of the road to build a new Albania through a new politics. They are the old, the past and a problem for all Albanians,” he said.
Rama considerd Nano and Berisha equally reponsible for today’s problems. “Albanians pay nowadays,” Nano and Berisha are co-authors of the parliamentary crime … that prolonged the life of (Berisha’s) government.”
Rama tried indirectly to include the power and water crisis in the party program saying that the time had come for a new political offer, meaning a popular reaction against the government for the crisis.
He also said he supported the protests held by the Socialist Movement for Integration of Ilir Meta against the power crisis, but did not mention whether they would support them in the streets.
