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However, apart from the electoral noise, the truth is that Sali Berisha had EU membership in his grasp, and was even very close.
Edi Rama is holding his entire campaign to get a fourth mandate with Albania's entry into the EU. No other political force, which is facing him, from Sali Berisha's DP, Lul Basha's Euro-Atlanticists, or even other parties, dares to use it as an electoral card. They even say that Rama will not get membership, since the EU will not give it to him. What if they come to the government? Darkness!
The opposition that aims to come to power in Albania does not have a political discourse on EU membership, but a contestation of the discourse of the majority leader on EU membership. This discourse, although not very clear, is taken by European circles as a hidden Euroscepticism, or even a lack of courage to openly express their position on the EU.
In fact, we are dealing with a trap that Rama has set for them with his discourse, for which the DP, which has the greatest power in creating an electoral strategy, has not yet drafted one.
Not in vain, Fatmir Mediu was sent to the US to get Lachivita to urgently come to Tirana and make a noise about "Make Albania Great again", as he said in the video shared with the accused of the Gërdec disaster.
Berisha is aiming to drown out, or rather drown out, Rama, or rather the noise of his campaign for EU membership, with the "Great Albania" of "Trump's advisor."
However, apart from the electoral noise, the truth is that Sali Berisha had EU membership in his grasp, and was even very close. In fact, in 1996, it was predicted that Albania would sign the Stabilization Association Agreement before all other Western Balkan countries. In the referendum on the constitution of 1994, the EU but also the US saw that there were real democratic forces in Albania that could stop Sali Berisha's authoritarian concept.
The events with Zef Brozi, Eduard Selami, or the five minorities had created an idea that Albania could also go into an authoritarian derivative like the countries of the former Soviet Union.
But with the creation of an opposition majority that overturned Sali Berisha's draft Constitution, the West managed to create a hope that there was a ray of democracy in the country. But a year later, things got even more complicated, reaching a climax in the 1996 elections. The number two of the Party of European Socialists, who was also the head of the parliamentary group in the EP, who had come as an observer, during an inspection in Malesia e Madhe, had an experience when a pistol was put to his head, and he publicly denounced this at the press conference at the SP headquarters in Shkodra, but also later in Tirana and Brussels. It was precisely the elections of May 26, 1996, that put a dent in the European perspective, while 1997 took the country even further back than 1990.
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