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The leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, stated that he presented the opposition's concerns regarding the financing of political parties and the electoral process in Albania to the Venice Commission delegation. After the meeting with the Commission representatives, he said that the issue of financing remains the most important element for guaranteeing free and fair elections.
Berisha claimed that during the May 11 parliamentary elections, there was a marked inequality between the Socialist Party and the Democratic Party in the use of financial resources. According to him, the ruling party benefited manifold from public funds and from activities financed with money from the state budget during the election period.
He described the elections as a process with deep financial inequality and said that these arguments have been presented before the Venice Commission.
"Representatives of the Venice Commission have arrived and we were in a meeting with them, in which we seek the thoughts and opinions of political forces before they express their recommendations and opinions on the party financing law.
In this meeting, we emphasized, together with my colleagues, that the issue of party financing is the most fundamental issue of the electoral process.
Specifically, we proved with facts that in these elections, in terms of financing from budget money, the difference between the two main parties, the Democratic Party and the party in government, was a minimum of 700 to 1 thousand times. The difference in financing from budget money, between the two main political forces, ranges from 700 to 1 thousand times.
Specifically. By completely excluding what the law determines for the financing of these parties, outside the legal definition, the ruling party organized, in the time prohibited by the law, 4530 events with a cost from a few hundred euros to 7 million euros, before the budget such as the 'Giro D'Italia', the day before the elections and on election day.
A private organization that was contracted by Edi Rama to influence voters. These 4530 activities are not in the 2.7 billion. If I said 700 mistakes, it is at least 2700 because this is budget money.
Secondly, every pensioner was given a 100 euro gift during the electoral campaign, budget money, a gift for voting. Two days before the elections, money that would go to the budget, 2 billion and 100 million euros, was forgiven. With an impact on over 2,300 families, with an impact on 84 thousand active businesses.
Another, but these were not counted. Billions, billions of cannabis roots that were decreed for 29 thousand hectares versus the 200 hectares that the law provided for, at a time when a cannabis plant is valued at 1 thousand euros in income.
But these could not be calculated, because they go into billions in themselves. Stratospheric amounts. So the inequality was in thousands of times, with budget money. Add to this over 500 million in procurements prohibited by law during the electoral campaign. For all of this, the farce was the ugliest they have ever seen", said Berisha.
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