Kreshnik Spahiu, nationalist party leader, withdraws from politics

TIRANA, May 28 – Kreshnik Spahiu, the founding leader of the nationalist Red and Black Alliance party, has announced he is leaving politics after the opposition leader, Lulzim Basha, broke a promise to sign him and other alliance candidates up for seats in parliament, Spahiu said this week. Spahiu and his party’s activists had been very active in a three-month-long non-stop protest led by Basha’s main opposition Democratic Party. “I’ve been betrayed,” Spahiu told reporters. “The only thing left for me is to abandon politics.” Spahiu’s party and other smaller opposition allies of the DP could not sign up themselves…