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"The blame for the Democratic Party's defeat in the May 11 elections lay with the government and Edi Rama, due to the use of state machinery and vote manipulation ," declared Democratic MP Luan Baçi, re-elected from the safe list of the Fier district.
He emphasized that it does not matter to him whether the recount of votes in that district will change the result, but that it was enough to prove the electoral farce.
Baçi underlined that the responsibility for the defeat that affected not only Fier, but all of Albania, does not lie with Sali Berisha, because he kept the party united and gave it over 520 thousand votes, but this responsibility should be borne by everyone else except him.
The MP publicly demanded that votes no longer be counted by commissioners elected by political parties, but by the CEC administration, and that the counting of ballots be done simultaneously for candidates and subjects and not one after the other, increasing the risk of interference.
Regarding the situation brought about by the recount following complaints from Democratic candidates, for which Baçi also expressed his support, where vote theft within the DP was discovered in the preferential vote, he listed several causes, while admitting that there was interference from both parties.
" For me, the result doesn't matter, one more or one less MP, but I need transparency and whether there was an electoral farce, elections like during dictatorships. I'm interested in what problems there were and certainly there were on voting day and in the counting, denunciations that the DP made before and after the elections. It is important to prove that May 11 was an electoral farce. Low result, facts are facts, we cannot deny it, low throughout Albania and we must accept it. But it was a voting process predetermined by this government. The government is responsible for the election process. If the electoral process is not equal then this result will be there ," said the Democrat MP in an interview for "Report TV".
Referring to the result of the Fier district, he stood by the cause, like its mayor Sali Berisha, that it was massive manipulation, with all tactics being used by the government and the socialist political leader of the district, Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku.
" Fier was a living sign of the manipulation of the May 11 vote. The Deputy Prime Minister of the government, Belinda Balluku, came 5-6 months before the electoral process in Fier, not only but together with state machinery. Out of fear, they came 6 months before to register residents from other regions in the Fier region. It was easy to register in the Fier region, where there were many citizens who were not residents there, but they also did the work of patronage workers. They are manipulators of the will of citizens, employees of the administration, which is paid with the taxes of the citizens who were involved, local and central. Employment, legalizations, construction permits were used, employment in Albpetrol during these months has been without criteria. All of these are verifiable violations. If the SP had not done all this, the DP would have undoubtedly won" , Baçi continued his discourse on the loss of May 11.
How does he explain the finding of violations with vote transfer within DP candidates in the boxes recounted so far for preferential votes? Are they human errors, or intentional violations, with oriented voting? He suggested that the CEC should order the counting of the candidate and subject votes at the moment and not one before and after the other.
" These are all the reasons for the violations found so far. There are also human errors. But this starts from the process in the CEC or the ballot paper. In Fier, Balluku and Rama also stole the closed list of the DP. I agree with the opinion why votes are not being counted for both at the moment, both the candidate and the subject. The opposition has raised it as a concern, I have raised it too. This problem comes from both sides. This is where the problem starts, with interventions from all sides because the CEC has not resolved it properly. Another factor has been the fatigue of the counters and then comes the intervention from each side according to preferences ," explained the democratic lawmaker, who is awaiting re-election through the final certification of the results of May 11.
He supported the demands of colleagues and candidates for transparency in complaints within the party. He also publicly suggested that the votes in the elections should no longer be counted by party commissioners, but by the CEC administration. He even raised strong suspicions that the law was violated, because many of the counters had secondary education and not higher education.
" I definitely support the request for a recount by the candidates, they are courageous. Even though it does not change the result, it highlights the problems, errors or violations, so that they can be fixed for the next elections. If there are violations, there is a Penal Code that provides for responsibilities, but they can also be human errors. Counting agents often think that since they are political, the party will protect them. My personal opinion is that the counting of votes should not be done by political party counters, but in a professional manner. And the CEC should have resolved this. Before the CEC goes into the violations of the counters, it should first release the names of the counters in terms of education, because the law requires them to have a university degree and I think that not all of them have. This also brings problems with the duration of the process, fatigue, the departure of counters, replacement with others who may not even meet the criteria. The counters must be verified, because they have also had high school degrees. We must be honest on this point ," said Baçi.
Regarding the analysis of the loss, he emphasized that it would be done only within the party and he would only express himself within the structures and not in public.
"Discussions about the result and the political leaders of the region have the right place and the right time for internal analysis in the party, within our family and not in public, I have always had this opinion. The result was determined before May 11, it was stolen by the prime minister and the state of the allies within us did not affect this result. These are discussions that the DP should have and the party will have, within itself ," the MP continued.
But Berisha, should he be held responsible and should he respect the DP statute or the “Basha Article”? Here the democratic legislator seemed to have a divided opinion, saying that the only one who should not leave was Berisha.
" My personal opinion is that if there is one person who held the campaign and the main weight, although in unequal positions, to receive over 500 thousand votes, it is the merit of the leader of the DP, Professor Dr. Sali Berisha. The one who hindered Rama's goal to replace the real opposition, is the merit of Berisha. As for all the others, they should look at their position, the result and bear the responsibility that they themselves and the party structures assign to them ," he concluded.
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