Democrats elect more local leaders

TIRANA, July 7 – The main opposition Democratic Party has continued its program of internal elections around Albania to select new local party leaders.
Its leader, Tirana Mayor Lulzim Basha, traveled across the country to follow the elections process, which has often been fraught with internal frictions.
For example, in northwestern Shkodra this week the process was suspended and postponed after the political fight among two rival groups.
Basha, who came to the post a year ago after the Democrats lost in the parliamentary elections and after his predecessor and then-Prime Minister Sali Berisha resigned from the post, has said that he will not tolerate those who try to divide the party. But it seems that some opponents are still strong enough in certain areas to either put their leader in the post or to cause obstacles to the new leadership.
Basha also boasted with the fact that they had electronically registered the entire party membership, which now stands as slightly higher than 100,000.