Political fight gets hotter

TIRANA, April 29 – Constitutional amendments sparked a powerful political fight of smaller political parties with the two big ones _ governing Democratic Party of Prime Minister Sali Berisha and main opposition Socialist Party of Tirana Mayor Edi Rama – that seems to have entered a series stage of development.
While Berisha managed to keep calm his smaller allies that has not been the case with Rama.
Ilir Meta of the Socialist Movement for Integration came out with an open letter directed to Rama how they could cooperate in the future.
Meta made it clear that joining forces on a call for referendum on the passed amendments would be the first step to launch that cooperation. That meant that socialist lawmakers, who had voted for the amendments, should join ranks with Meta’s group to ask for a referendum on the amendments that is to oppose their previous decision.
That has been a move hardly expected to bring positive results.
Both sides accuse each other of making efforts to keep Berisha in power, but none says that their stand on both sides may likely keep Berisha in post, the same that helped and served to achieve that three years ago when Berisha came to power.
Then, too, the two political parties mentioned above were opposing each other, taking votes from each other and leaving higher chances to then-opposition Democrats to win in certain electoral zones.