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The bitter truth is not that Sali Berisha is an enemy of free elections, but that free elections are Sali Berisha's biggest enemy.
Imagine for a moment that the current leader of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Alliance took Sali Berisha seriously, who asked them to restore free elections in his country, and went to open the pages of the history of elections in Albania.
Albania was first mentioned in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly reports in May 1996, being classified as the first country of the former communist East (excluding the former Soviet republics) that fundamentally destroyed the electoral process by excluding the opposition from the elections.
Imagine his secretary saying:
-Yes, boss, that gentleman is right. In Albania, they have been destroying elections since 1996.
-What was the name of the one who destroyed them?
-Sali Berisha.
-It must be one of his descendants, because they have the same name.
-No boss, it's him.
This hypothetical mise-en-scene, lasting a few seconds, is the essence of his theatrical performance today in Portugal.
The ODIHR mission would probably have been reduced and closed in time, if it were not for Sali Berisha. The authority of the ODIHR was established and it was considered that it should continue to exist after the elections of May 26, 1996 in Albania, where the blow that was dealt to Berisha's elections was decisive not only for Albania, but also for the ODIHR, which was becoming an unnecessary organization, because other communist countries, at least in the central and southeastern part of Europe, were running smoothly.
At that time, Sali Berisha tried to use the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly against the ODIHR, due to his friendship with the president of its Assembly and the head of the mission she had appointed, but he failed.
For all those who are not clear, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly is a representation of all parliaments of OSCE member states, a large part of which are neither democratic countries nor hold elections at all, such as the former Soviet republics.
But no matter how little importance it has in terms of representing democratic values, not even the OSCE Assembly recognized the May 26 elections.
Now his call for this Assembly to restore free elections in his homeland must receive a response.
If someone from the Assembly calls the CEC and asks about the recount, again the DP has come out first on the list for the undeserved votes it received. These are free elections and some of the best in the history of Albania, but here too they have abused more than others.
So the first recommendation of the OSCE Assembly in response to Sali Berisha's request should be simple and should start with the method of exclusion. To understand where the problem lies, the first creator of the problem must be excluded.
For 30 years we have only had one refrain: every time he steals and rapes elections, he calls them free, and every time he loses, he calls them stolen. So, either we will keep him in politics so that we always have this trouble, or we must restore free elections to the DP and remove him from politics as a loser.
The bitter truth is not that Sali Berisha is an enemy of free elections, but that free elections are Sali Berisha's biggest enemy.
With free elections, as you can see, he has been losing heavily since 1992, and the only place where he stops free elections is his own party, because at least he won't lose there.
And this is the only problem Albania has with free elections in Sali Berisha's political house. In the rest of Albania, fortunately, they are there and they protect Albania from Sali Berisha.
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