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Shkruar nga Mero Baze
Specifically, if Berisha needs the CEC today, he does not need boxes or secret rooms, but the CEC, which, based on the statute of the Democratic Party, organizes the elections.
Sali Berisha today requested an inventory of physical items from the CEC for his uncontested re-election as head of the DP on May 23. After excluding anyone who attempts to run for president, even though he does not risk it, he is now taking care to borrow physical materials from the CEC such as boxes, secret rooms, security codes, etc.
Although it is very cynical to pretend to be holding elections when you have left no one in the race, Berisha's request to address the CEC is a good opportunity to discuss one of the most serious problems of political pluralism in Albania, which is the permanent lack of free and fair elections within parties.
Those who have been accusing each other of vote theft for 35 years, in fact, their biggest problem is that they never hold elections within their own party.
For this reason, in electoral reform in Albania, attention must be paid to the democratization of parties within them, imposing free and fair elections, certified by an independent institution such as the CEC.
This should be reflected in the law. All the problems of the deformation of democracy and pluralism in Albania have come from the lack of internal reform of the parties and from the fact that the parties are usurped by leaders who do not allow voting.
The Socialist Party is the only party that in 1999 held real elections within itself, with a contest that gave it the card of reform and final separation from the Labor Party, but the need for a new contest will arise soon, when the Socialists leave power. And I do not believe that the conditions of 1999 are such that that spectacle can be repeated.
For this reason, it is necessary to clearly define two criteria in the law on political parties. First, guaranteeing free and fair elections within the party, by transferring this competence to the CEC, as it does with parliamentary elections. It is better to increase some funds for the CEC to certify elections according to the law and the party statute, to see the real popularity of each leader within the party, than to give up on elected leaders and then listen to them lecture us about defeats and victories in the elections.
Specifically, if Berisha needs the CEC today, he does not need boxes or secret rooms, but the CEC, which, based on the statute of the Democratic Party, organizes the elections. If this were to happen, today the first person excluded from the race would be Sali Berisha based on the "Basha article" that he himself has established in the statute, where he is prohibited from running again. So he is the biggest and only self-excluded person in the DP if the elections were held by the CEC.
But instead of the CEC doing them, they are done with the CEC's means, but not with the CEC's rules. And this is a great cynicism, from which Albania has not been able to escape for 35 years. Just as Sali Berisha cannot be removed from the DP chair. Fixed because he does not allow voting within the party.
SKIZOFREN