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The Chairman of the Together Movement, Arlind Qori, thanked the citizens "who challenged the climate of fear and the pressures of the government machinery" and voted for the new political alternatives, while expressing himself not too concerned about the fact that the Socialists control three-fifths of parliament, quoting Noli and suggesting that the citizens will find the strength to triumph.
Describing the May 11 elections as "extremely unequal," the leader of the Joint Movement and future MP Redi Muçi declared at a press conference on Thursday that their battle has just begun and that they were convinced that citizens will find the strength to oppose what they described as a climate of fear and pressure organized by the government.
"We are all witnesses to the countless pressures that the ruling party has exerted on administrative employees and small businesses. We have felt this every time we have gone to meet citizens," declared Qori.
"Albania after May 11th in many aspects dawns gloomy," said Qori while quoting some well-known verses by Fan Noli that speak of "the tyrant who bent the homeland."
"This tyrant who has corrupted religion and bent the homeland has not succeeded in extinguishing the hope of Albanian citizens for change, and part of this hope is linked to the name of the Joint Movement," declared Qori.
"Edi Rama seems extremely powerful [...] this does not bother us. In our political analysis, this overpowering will be the one that will sink Edi Rama," he added.
According to Qori, Rama will hardly be able to tell pensioners or workers the tale of the owl Berisha that he told them during the electoral campaign and will have to face the reality he has created.
Fan Noli was a left-wing politician in Albania in the 1920s and the head of a six-month government that was not recognized internationally because it came to power through an uprising rather than through elections. Noli lost on the armed battlefield to Ahmet Zog, the “tyrant who bent the fatherland” in his 1928 poem Ana Lumenjve, and fled Albania for the United States, where he died four decades later, while the “tyrant” was not overthrown by the people but was overthrown by the invasion of Fascist Italy fifteen years later.
Incoming MP Redi Muçi stated that his parliamentary battles will be related to the draft law on the Living Wage, previously submitted to the Assembly as a law proposed by voters, with the increase in funds for social issues, as well as with the creation of appropriate legislation to allow citizens to more easily organize referendums on issues they find of interest.
Referendums are regulated by a section of the 2023 Electoral Code and their organization has so far proven almost impossible due to the procedural difficulties established in this law. The Electoral Code has been amended many times since then but the political will to regulate the chapter on referendums has been lacking. Referendums are also a cause of the Albania Initiative Coalition.
The Together Movement managed to receive almost 24 thousand votes while a portion of the ballot boxes are still being counted, and won a mandate as a deputy in Tirana, where it received a better result than at the national level, with particularly high success in urban areas and in the relatively wealthier neighborhoods of the capital.
With around 1.55% of the valid votes won, Bashke should have normally secured two parliamentary mandates, while the system's inequalities meant that one went to the largest party, the Socialist Party.
Together is one of three new parties that managed to win mandates. The new parties won a total of about 165 thousand votes up to this stage of counting or almost 11% of the valid votes. Ironically, the 9 or 10 mandates that belong to small parties have passed, due to systemic inequality, to the party that these parties intended to challenge, namely the Socialist Party, which with this majority has the opportunity to change the rules of the electoral game, as it did earlier in 2020, when opposition MPs supported the changes requested by Rama, which gave it the 2021-2025 mandate with 49% of the votes and 53% of the seats in parliament.
The elections were criticized by international observers as "unfair" and with the ruling party's electoral practices "incompatible with international standards."
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