Ambassadors visit Edi Rama
18/07/2011 15:10
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Two days after the publication of the letter sent by the the Democratic
Party Parliamentary Group leader, Astrit Patozi, to the Socialist Party
headquarters, EU and OSCE ambassadors, Ettore Sequi and Eugen Wollfarth,
met with the Socialist Party leader, Edi Rama, with whom they discussed
for more than 90 minutes. The meeting was informal and the discussion
details remained confidential. Sources say that part of these
discussions were the elections, or more specifically, the mandate of the
new Mayor for Tirana, which for the Socialists was stolen on the table
of the Central Election Commission and afterwards in the Electoral
College.
The Socialist Party has given no further details, while it is still unclear if they have discussed the letter that the DP Parliamentary Group leader, Astrit Patozi, sent to Gramoz Ruçi on July 13 and that was made public only on July 16th, after the opposition refused the invitation for a meeting at the Albanian Parliament.
Socialist Party sources state that there is still no official answer to the letter sent by the Democrats to propose the establishment of the Commission of the Electoral Reform, which would ask assistance from OSCE-ODIHR and the Commission of Venice.
However, there is a general stance of the Socialist Party on the political situation, since Edi Rama declared five days ago that they cannot talk about constitutional reforms before having the Democratic Party to admit that the elections for Tirana were stolen. Rama declared that the international community must guarantee these reforms. It is still early to say if this meeting served even for this matter, but we believe that this might have been another discussion topic between the ambassadors and the Socialist Party leader.
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