Former Prime Minister Sali Berisha has stated that on the evening of his arrest for vote buying , the elected mayor of Himara did not even have 50 ALL in his pocket .
Berisha emphasized that Beleri was imprisoned while he was having dinner and according to him the accusation that he was caught red-handed distributing money is a fraud.
The former prime minister said that it is becoming "an unimaginable battle to take his mandate".
"Look at what happens in the Beleri case. An unimaginable battle to take his mandate. He imprisons him at midnight while he was having dinner, deceives him and says that he was caught in the act distributing money, at a time when he did not even have 50 Lek in his pocket.
It does not allow him to take the oath, at a time when the laws of the country do not prevent him, because in a country that claims to respect the most basic legal norms, he who is not convicted is innocent. This precedent has worked in other cases, but it does not work for Himara's mandate, because he has predicted his paradise there.
So a big fight on all four sides for one term. I brought it here as an example of what Edi Rama is able to do for the mandate that he fixes exactly.
If Beleri has bought votes, then take him to swear as he has sworn other times and be punished back. But he must lose his mandate for the term of the oath", said former Prime Minister Berisha.