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Bregu votes against party line in EU talks

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TIRANA, Nov. 8 – A Democratic Party lawmaker and former minister of EU Integration, Majlinda Bregu, has split her vote from the party this week after the opposition leaders called on the European Commission not to set a date for launching accession talks with Albania until free elections are guaranteed next year.

Bregu took to social media and hinted that she voted in favor of the recommendation for opening negotiation chapters with European Union and underlined that neither she nor the Democratic Party chairman Lulzim Basha can “block Albania’s integration processes.”

“In all of my opinions during these last years, I have protected the 25-year-long efforts of the Democratic Party to see Albania part of Europe. Even if I or Lulzim Basha want to block Albania’s EU integration, our history does not allow it. I have never done it, and I will never do it,” Bregu said in a Facebook post.

 

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