TIRANA, Jan. 21 – Albania’s main opposition Democratic Party declared on Saturday that the solution to the political dead-end the country is facing must come through a transitional government that will prepare free elections in the country.
This was decided by the democrats’ National Council, called to elect the party’s new leadership and structures, both of which will have to compile the opposition’s political action in detail.
As stated in the speech of chairman Lulzim Basha at the first session of the Democratic Party’s new national council the opposition’s first task is “the great battle and confrontation for democracy and the rule of law by leading people’s protests to achieve Rama’s collapse and the dismissal of this model by institutions, politics, Albania.”
While harshly criticizing the Socialist Party and Prime Minister Edi Rama, starting from the economic situation, the government’s alleged corruption or its links with crime, according to the opposition, Basha said it’s clear the country’s great challenge restoring people’s trust in politics.
“The more Albanians join us, the faster Edi Rama will leave. Therefore, the main solution to the Rama problem can not be found neither in the streets or in institutions, but in the minds and hearts of the people. If people believe in us, if people have hope in us, Rama will also fall formally, as he has politically and morally,” Basha said.
While the country is only six months apart from local elections, Basha only mentioned them briefly, instead focusing on the need for general elections.
The opposition’s solution is appointing a transitional government to prepare free and fair elections, while also offering as an option a simultaneous development of both local and general elections.
However, the details of the opposition’s political action have been left over to the new leadership that will emerge from the elections that took place at the National Council.
