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DP leader Lulzim Basha said in Open that the fight against corruption is a national interest and is the enemy of the well-being of Albanians,
Basha: The truth is, in politics he speaks through acts. And one of my decisions and my actions has been the opening and democratization of the Democratic Party. What Sali Berisha says at the stadium, I have made a fact in the National Assembly of April 2018. In April 2018, we have taken a series of democratization measures in cooperation with the most modern European parties. So, in acts, in vocabulary, in my attitudes, there is nothing in common between me and Berisha. So I am a political son. I am the political son of freedom, the political son of democracy, the political son of the western mentality. If you call it a preference to face Edi Rama after losing three candidates in a row, I call it a mission. Even for many at the time, it was a difficult and impossible mission. If you call it preference, when PD came with two deputies and SP with 8 deputies and I brought 7, from 2 to 7.
That Sali Berisha had a sense of smell was different. A man who above his personal interests, above the interests of the Democrats, this is something else.
Enkelejd Abilekaj: The idea is that you have always chosen Sali Berisha as your man, dualism. The dualism that you have is exactly for this, that Mr. Berisha and you have always been together in these 8 years in making decisions or you have informed Berisha first about making decisions. For example, if we take Edi Rama’s parallelism, Edi Rama came to the helm of the Socialist Party in 2005, as an opponent of Fatos Nano, with a resolution that even defeated Fatos Nano, but as an opponent, and in those votes he received in the Congress of SP, he had all the legitimacy to remove Fatos Nano from the party. If you, even in the June 13 votes, did not say a word about Sali Berisha, even though you had the non grata standard that you set in March. And although from May 19 to June 13, you had the opportunity to confirm this standard and tell those who would vote for them, that this non grata standard is the standard of exclusion from politics. So, Sali Berisha with this standard will no longer be part of the parliamentary group of the Democratic Party, because we will respect this standard. And respecting that, stating ahead, the June 13 vote would give you the right to take the decision you made as mayor in September.
Lulzim Basha: I took a stand, on the same day that the decision of the State Department was announced. And the attitude was, I asked for transparency, because that was, it came to us as a friend. After the electoral massacre of April 25, suddenly, and I also expressed this to the representatives, that these are not things that break the diplomatic etiquette, but I was more a witness in that meeting. The American representative who came, Reeker came a few weeks later and I said: You have a variegated democracy, you have a regime that goes towards authoritarianism in all its aspects, from media freedom, seizure of institutions, paralysis of justice and finally annihilation of the free vote. Because on April 25, democracy was killed. Elections have not been simply manipulated. And at this point, instead of being on the side of our values, hit us while we are at our most difficult point and the explanation given has been quite clear. This was a decision that would be announced and we have made a political decision not to announce it before the elections, precisely so as not to spoil your work. This is a decision which comes to the desk of the Secretary of State as a number of Inter Agency agencies are working on it and this decision has been delayed by request, let me finish it a little, by request, will you allow me to finish it now that there is public interest , that we are talking to the public, it was delayed with a request not to be seen as a hand on the election scales, this was the explanation given and I stood by the request for transparency. After that, of course, there was an intensive communication process with both the American side and Mr. Berisha. It has become increasingly clear from the American side that this is not a political decision, but a finalization of a decision long launched by the law enforcement agencies of the United States of America, based on… ore we have here the people who have charged with many things…
Were you aware of the burden of June 13, how would you respect that standard? Were you not conscious? Why?
Basha: No, I was not aware because at that moment I was not aware that the blow that came to us, is it possible to finish the sentence, I was not aware, I was looking at that moment, I was looking at what came to us in the context of the massacre of 25 April, I did not look at it as I see it today.
You did not have the information non grata that is excluded, decriminalization?
Basha: He asked for transparency, I asked for transparency, okay? What happened after that? He said I would open a lawsuit, while the American side gave an ultimatum and said this is an issue that affects a public interest, a national interest of the United States of America, that did not let Eni enter the debate, that the war the new, cold is no longer between communism and the free world. The new cold war, the autocracies today are no longer supported by ideology, they are maintained by corruption ..
Basha: mb corruption is on its feet, it is part of a global strategy, today there was another US ambassador, she says there are 200 people declared non grata in the world. This is an instrument set by the United States of America to fight what is called the foundation of new autocracies and I am telling you that corruption is the enemy of the well-being of Albanians.
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