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In this sense, primaries within the party so close to the elections not only lack any political and democratic logic, but perhaps also bring about divisions within it, unnecessary given the conditions when the race is so close.
The Democratic Party seems to have fallen into a statutory trap since the time of the conflict within it. Sali Berisha, having promised an open and democratic party upon his return to the leadership of the DP, established a statutory norm that foresees that candidates for deputies would be elected through primaries. In fact, political parties in Albania, in order to appear as democratic as possible, sometimes establish statutory norms that have neither political logic nor are they practical in other countries with developed democracies.
And this is the case of the Democratic Party, which on March 1 will hold primaries for candidates for deputies at the district level. The point is that these primaries are very similar to the expression that says ''you are more Catholic than the Pope''. Even the Democratic Party, in order to appear as a party with internal democracy, which is not true, and where everything is decided by Berisha, holds primary elections that have no political logic and are held at a completely inappropriate time. While the opponent is focused on the electoral campaign, the DP wastes energy with a useless and worthless process for several reasons.
First, because we have entered the electoral campaign and many of those who will run for MPs have already started meetings, especially outside Albania. It is absurd that other people have started the campaign outside Albania and others can run for MPs.
Second, because primaries are usually held for executive bodies and not legislative ones. There is no country in the democratic world, especially in parliamentary republics, that holds primaries for candidates for deputies. Usually, candidates for deputies are chosen by party bodies. If a party truly has internal democracy, the bodies that propose candidates for deputies are the assemblies of the various branches, strengthening the role of members and bottom-up structures.
Third, and most importantly, is the fact that there can be no primaries for candidates for deputies without debates, discussions and competing ideas. Every primary has at its center debates between candidates, the ideas they express and their political vision. Given that these debates are impossible to hold for candidates for deputies, what are the criteria by which the DP membership will select candidates? How will a member of the DP vote for candidates when he has no idea what ideas he has, what he thinks about the party, Albania or the area for which he is running to be elected? What will he evaluate when he cannot hear the candidates and their ideas in a public debate? All that remains is to vote based on likeability or recognition, or perhaps even on the basis of directives from above.
In this sense, primaries within the party so close to the elections not only lack any political and democratic logic, but perhaps also bring about divisions within it, unnecessary given the conditions when the race is so close.
Therefore, the DP primaries are nothing more than a useless status trap, and perhaps a vote to legitimize the elections of its mayor. The primaries will also not only legitimize the Mayor's decisions in a "democratic" way, but will probably be used by the latter as pressure on certain currents within the Democratic Party. We all already know that that party is led with an iron fist by Berisha, and it is unlikely that the primaries will distort this reality. On the contrary, they will further strengthen the unquestionable role of Sali Berisha's party.
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