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Fredi Beleri will be the candidate of the "New Democracy" party for the European elections in Greece held in June. He will not be a physical participant in these elections, so he will not have the troubles he had in the elections in Himara, where he was accused of buying votes.
On the other hand, paradoxically, his candidacy in the European elections of Greece, make completely ridiculous the imposition that the European Union and the USA have made on Albania regarding the law of decriminalization in politics.
For Albania to receive the status of a candidate country for membership in the European Union, it was forced to make a law, that a citizen convicted in Greece or any country of the European Union, could not run in the parliamentary or local elections in Albania.
Now a country of the European Union, a citizen of Albania is running, convicted in the first degree for electoral corruption, and previously detained in Greece for carrying weapons without a permit and suspected of terrorist acts in Albania.
Let's put aside the nationalist rhetoric of Greece in this case, since we are entering that spiral we will never get out of, but look at the Western standard that has been imposed on Albania on the one hand and the standard that is used against Albania on the other hand, in the name of the West.
The European standard that has been imposed on Albania is that no convict from Albania in Europe should be chosen by the Albanian people, while the standard by which Albania is being pressured is a prisoner in Albania and Greece, where in Greece, he has been released from accusations with a closed trial in the name of the "national interest" of Greece.
I don't think that in Albania they are very upset whether Beleri will be a member of parliament in Brussels or not. There are even many cynics who think it is a good thing for Greece to be represented with Beler's portrait in Brussels, as it eases Albania's position.
The problem is that Albania has the right to ask the EU to identify the standards with the elected. If it is allowed for a person convicted in Albania and arrested in Greece for terrorist activity against another country to run for the European elections, it seems cynical that Europe itself imposes on Albania a law that prohibits Albanian citizens convicted in Europe to run in Albania.
Not that Albania needs to have criminal candidates, but it needs to have a legal standard with the European Union. Greece itself has given excellent examples of strength, when it expelled members of the Golden Dawn representing Greek fascism, xenophobia and hatred between peoples from the parliament. Fredi Beleri is a worthy representative of Golden Dawn, but I am not convinced that he is a worthy representative of Greece.
On the official website of the European Parliament, the cases of exemptions from running in the European elections are presented, according to the legislation of the member countries, and in the part where Greece is discussed, there are some restrictions, related to "ineligibility" resulting from an individual legal civil decision or criminal to run. It is clear that under Greek law, any person who has been finally convicted of certain offenses can be stripped of their political rights (and right). On the other hand, the Greek legislation states that "certain punishment of penal servitude always results in the loss of political rights from 2 to 10 years (Article 60)."
After Beler completes the judicial process in Albania, if he is convicted, Greece must calculate the sentence in Albania and this citizen is found to be convicted.
I know that Greece can ignore a decision of the Albanian courts, but this is political arrogance. The problem is that Fredi Beleri's positive discrimination does not harm Albania, but makes Western pressure for a legal state in Albania completely unserious. Even more so for the new justice system, which has imprisoned half of the senior government officials, but it is considered unfair to imprison a candidate caught in electoral corruption just because he claims to have Greek citizenship.
I assure you that this does not upset the Albanian politicians. Some who are on the verge of prison who have run for Beleri, he supports them. The others rejoice in silence, perhaps even more than Beleri. But the European standard is relativized too much, not to say it becomes ridiculous.
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