MP Erion Braçe speaks for the first time about the clash with Prime Minister Edi Rama at the meeting of the SP group on territorial reform, where Rama made it clear to him that he must vote in favor or else he will be expelled from the party.
The socialist legislator harshly criticizes the way the Socialist Party functions today, speaking of "disciplinary violence," which he describes as the greatest anti-democratic deformation within the party.
Braçe emphasizes that, although Rama drafted the candidate lists according to his wishes, 25,000 citizens gave him the mandate.
"Third, being an MP is a job and the Assembly is my workplace for me. Edi Rama drew the lists and drew them as he wanted, in his style, the people gave me the job by voting. 25 thousand people, the first socialists among them, leftists and ordinary people in this city and not only, together with them, thought that I do this job and they all have the right to ask me for the job. I am here, in Tirana now. Yes, I have an infinite moral obligation to all those who have given me this job over the years and to whom I have responded humbly, modestly and with gratitude every day, where they reside and live, without ever failing, protecting them every time, doing good and changing life for the better for most of them. Never alone, but with them, with many friends and comrades of this path, of these governments in particular, for them. I did it this time too, I emphasize without anyone asking me, until the job given by other people could be undone as such from that anti-democratic remodeling that relies on another anti-democratic model, "either vote, or you are outside this group" and that continues with "you can work with this government in this group, not outside it". I said it there and I will continue to say that when I am right, the violence of discipline that is put into action in case of need, is the greatest anti-democratic deformation that is happening to the Socialist Party. To have a right and to be told this in the face "yes, you are right", while this right is ground down by the discipline of the birch or the shepherd, this self-proclaimed one, who guarantees the wrong, is unacceptable", said Braçe.