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Today's attitude towards Sali Berisha was nothing but karma...
David McAllister is one of the most influential politicians in Europe, even though he has not become a minister or a European Union commissioner.
A German by birth, with a Scottish father and a German mother, Mr. McAllister is one of the most important figures in Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats. It is precisely his family origin that constitutes the core of the values of today's Europe.
His father was a British soldier who participated in World War II for the liberation from Nazism, who married his German mother, a music teacher. The Scottish soldier chose to live in the country where he found the love of his life. A graduate of one of the best universities in Lower Saxony, which is centered in Hanover, touches the northwestern German coast on the North Sea, McAllister is one of the most important politicians in this highly populated and industrialized state. Consequently, with plenty of potential for the politics of the main parties in the country.
A staunch Europeanist, even in his genes, he is one of the closest people to former Chancellor Angela Merkel and today is practically the head of the current or political faction that is in some way an opponent of Chancellor Merz.
His stability in a political post as head of the European Parliament's foreign affairs committee is nothing more than a sign of the significant influence of Germany, the CDU, and of course the highly experienced politician David MCAllister.
It is no coincidence that for 20 years now, Germany has had a dominant role in the European Commission, diplomacy, and of course the European Parliament. Its economic power naturally translates into a primary political influence.
McAllister is one of the politicians who have launched this new German political course after the 2000s under the leadership of his colleague and close friend Angela Merkel.
For Tirana, David McAllister is an old acquaintance. In addition to being a supporter and expert on the Balkans, in 2017, he came to Albania to resolve the difficult impasse of 2017, when the Democratic Party of Lulzim Basha as regent but Sali Berisha as the real boss went into hiding, risking the failure to hold parliamentary elections, which could put the country in a serious blockade.
David McAllister was sent by Chancellor Merkel as a mediator for the crisis, and he had more carrots for Basha and Berisha than sticks. He didn't even carry a single stick in his suitcase. With a 20-point plan, McAllister proposed a joint SP-PD government until the elections, where the opposition would have the deputy prime minister, the head of the CEC, the Ombudsman, the election of a consensual President, the postponement of the elections on July 16, and many other points.
This package was like a blessing for the DP, given by an ally of theirs, as McAllister is vice-president of the European People's Party.
But both Sali Berisha and Ilir Meta rejected the McAllister package, even mocking it in the studio and on panels, calling it Big Mac. It is understandable why Meta opposed it, because he wanted to become President himself, but the opposition of the Democratic Party was completely devoid of normal political logic.
This was also expressed by European diplomats and politicians, especially from the CDU. It is learned that David McAllister himself declared at the time that you will not find a better agreement than this.
But it seems that the opposition, which trumpeted the overthrow of Edi Rama with the victory of Donald Trump's first term, was waiting for a delegation from the US to arrive to resolve the crisis.
And indeed, he came: "Bulldozer" Hoyt Brian Yee, DASH's number two, who had no carrot for Sali Berisha, but a big stick, so much so that it stunned the doctor, who later expressed it himself in the media.
Then Edi Rama entered the room with Lulzim Basha, where they came up with a joint government that was softer than Big Mac, but which badly divided the opposition and gave Edi Rama his second victory in the elections.
That rejection of the good that McAllister brought back then, of course, upset him, the CDU, the EPP and of course Angela Merkel and official Berlin. Therefore, today's stance towards Sali Berisha was nothing but karma.
However, politically it is a dry seal, placed by the leader of the European center-right and one of the most influential on the continent. After this stance, there can be no hesitation at all that if the DP has not been excluded, it has been put in the political freezer for the EPP's point of view.
Can anyone say that Viktor Orban's FIDEZ is also in this status? True, but he has been in power for 4 terms and politically has left the EPP and is a leader of the sovereignist and populist right.
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