Rama in Britain to meet Labor party leaders

TIRANA, Oct 21 – Main opposition Socialist Party leader Edi Rama started a visit to the United Kingdom where he is asking for the support of the Labor Party officials in his party’s efforts on vote transparency.
The Socialist are boycotting the parliament and the upcoming partial local elections asking for the investigation of scores of ballot boxes which they claim were wrongly counted due to the pressure from the governing Democrats’ officials during the June 28 parliamentary election.
Rama is also to talk with the British political counterparts on the reasons and the way the protests will proceed.
Rama has been involved in a series of meetings with western officials to explain his move.
Meanwhile official sources from the west are calling on the Socialists to end their parliament boycott and also ask the government to find a way out of the political impasse in the country, now a NATO member and a country that is looking forward to the European Union membership one day in the future.
The Socialists want to convince the international Socialist counterparts of the danger of holding free and fair elections in the country in the future unless they check the transparency of the last ones, which they claim were ‘deformed’ by the Democrats.