TIRANA, June 13 /ATA/ – By Maela Marini/ “Nothing can prevent us from heading to June 30 elections and we feel compelled to come to terms with the wrong, fatal choice of our rivals to leave the election campaign with one candidate in the overwhelming part of the country,” PM Edi Rama stated.
In his address to parliament, PM Edi Rama said we owe an explanation to Albania and our international friends and partners how things reached the boiling point in the caldron of our political life and why the President overreached his powers in violation the constitution and let fly with a stray bullet to kill elections in the midst of election campaign.
Rama added that we owe an explanation why we did not make use of the opportunity to stop the campaign and wait until Berisha and Meta agreed upon a new election day.
There is a great attempt ongoing channel to channel, portal to portal to blame me for elections without main rivals and follow the logic of what is going on, which is interpreted as the consequence of stubbornness, authoritarianism, craziness going as far as an effort to incite a civil conflict over Albania,” Rama said.
According to Rama, this situation is in the interest of a bunch of people, inextricably linked with the national interest of the Republic.
“What is my interest behind the unshakable conviction that time is not ripe for compromise but for campaign and elections on June 30? We are heading to local elections. The SP governs 75 percent of the territory on national scale and manages the majority of main municipalities. There is a solid parliamentary majority and unshakable support for the govt. and me.
The govt. is grappling with 1001 issues that need to be addressed, the economy is now in peril and tourism is under threat and all these costs shake the confidence of investors, Rama said.
Under these conditions, according to him, calming the heated situation seems like an easy thing to do rather than a strong headache as is the advancement in this abnormal situation towards June 30.
I see no close pragmatic interest whatsoever in preventing the efforts from calming this situation and no impediment to the path of government if elections are postponed even for an indefinite period. On the contrary, I should have been delighted to accept such a thing for me in person, for the sake of my convenience and my post, but also for the sake of our govt. I should have been the first to leap into the air with joy after the cancellation of elections and wash my hands of the election process saying: Bravo, I do absolutely agree with that,” Rama said.
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