The deadline for submitting lists of candidates for MPs from political parties closes at midnight today.
Sali Berisha, at the meeting of the Democratic Party Presidency where the lists of candidates for MPs will be voted on, revealed, according to him, the behind-the-scenes details of the preparation of the lists in the rival camp, that of the Socialist Party.
According to Berisha, the socialists have been replaced on the lists with underworld figures and other people without political contributions.
"The Rama-Lubi Balluku team is determining the candidacies entirely in collaboration with the crime clans in Albania. The last socialists who remained in that party have also been thrown out and replaced with exponents of the criminal world or cousins, cousins, etc., etc. Threats are the basic method of determining the lists of deputies. Thus, in case Rama wanted to wash his hands of Gjiknuri, Gjiknuri sent him an envelope not with money, but with photos of McGonigail. And Gjiknuri returned to the lists.
"I gave this example of how the list is being determined on the other side. I can give you other examples full of how Ceno Klosi famously excluded the never-wise socialist, Petro Koçi," Berisha said, among other things.
He said that the DP list for these elections will be the most important decision of this 4-year term.
"This is an extremely important moment, a great merit of the DP membership, its leaders in the DP branches and at the center, its deputies and what I can tell you is that this process stands at the full height of the main objective of the DP, Greater Albania. This is the most transparent process that has ever been developed in the history of the DP, with the widest possible participation, with the representation of all feelings, all layers, sub-groups, groups, communities of Albanian society. But these candidates for deputies have the advantage because they are at the same time representatives of the most powerful coalition that Albania has known in 32 years. This coalition that unites about 25 parties, which without the DP, represent almost a third of the Albanian electorate.
"This constitutes a powerful advantage for the Alliance for Greater Albania and the DP, an advantage that has deeply depressed the opposing side, which is in fact in real chaos," Berisha said.
After Berisha's speech, the meeting of the DP Presidency was held behind closed doors where the list of candidates for MPs of the "Greater Albania" coalition, which is led by the Democratic Party and consists of 25 parties, will be approved.