Decision for Berisha, Basha: After his declaration non grata, it would be criminal on my part not to side with the Democrats

Basha said that after taking the decision to suspend Berisha, he feels more liberated than at any other moment during his 16 years of political career.

Basha: First, the decision is not personal, but it is the decision of the chairman of the Democratic Party. It is the decision of the chairman of the Democratic Party, because the chairman of the Democratic Party is elected with one member one vote from the membership of the Democratic Party. Not to have a car and a driver, not to go out to wait and escort ambassadors, but to make difficult decisions. With the statute of the Democratic Party, the chairman is not only required to make such decisions that in the first articles of the statute, but the failure to make such a decision, burdens him with responsibility. Then the statute would have been violated. And let me tell you why.

The Democratic Party, not in these 8 years that I have been chairman, but from the beginning in its statute has been defined as an essentially anti-communist, pro-Euro-Atlantic party. It had in its objectives NATO membership, since Albania joined NATO during our government, now the position in favor of Euro-Atlantic values ​​is defined and has remained in the statute as one of the main goals of the party’s existence, as one of the main missions, membership in the European Union, there are indisputably other objectives. This is the first and inviolable step of any Democratic Party chairman who would be in the positions where I am and where I have been until September 9th. The second and most important step. The Democratic Party Parliamentary Group before its formation, the chairman has all the authority to decide the affiliation to this group. Faced with a dilemma, Sali Berisha’s personal fate, or the interests of the Democrats, as it became publicly known by the United States’s stance after his proclamation non grata, would be not only negligent, unforgivable, but criminal in nature. me or anyone who would be in my country, not to side with the Democrats, and I did.

The opposite would have been criminal, let me even tell you this. This was a decision that Sali Berisha almost announced himself. In July he said that he would not include the Democratic Party or the parliamentary group. He did the exact opposite. Immediately after I made the decision to suspend it from the parliamentary group, remember it is a party that has set a standard. He has set a standard which Sali Berisha has strongly defended, he has defended with a studio. A person declared non grata by the US, that for the Democrats, for the Democratic Party, other than that you may have different opinions, yes for the Democrats and for the Democratic Party, we have accepted the State Department, as a jury of democracy and of our rule of law. We quote every March when the human rights report comes out, we also quote in March of this year and in March of this year the State Department wrote that Albania is the most corrupt country in the Balkans. It is this State Department that has declared non grata Dako and Aries as far as we know, that there are also announcements which have not been made public.

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