Baker, interview about Albania
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Former US Secretary of State, James Baker, who entered Albania’s history
as the first high rank US official that visited the most isolated
communist country in Europe, right after the first pluralist elections on
22 June 1991, has returned his attention to the Albanian politics even
20 years after the historical visit.
Baker has written an opinion about Tirana elections for the prestigious magazine “Foreign Policy”, where he raises the questions if the lessons of Bush-Al Gore race in 2000 might be worthy even for Tirana.
11 years ago, in a narrow race with a difference of 300 votes for 6 million Americans that voted in Florida, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that George Bush would be President of USA.
At that time, James Baker was leading the legal team of George Bush, for the legal battle at the Supreme Court.
Noting the similarities between the two judicial systems, James Baker says in his interview that in such a narrow race, when both parties pretend victory, it is useless to suggest that the solution will come through dialogue and that is inappropriate to tell the voters that their vote doesn’t count, by asking the elections to be repeated.
“What must be done, is that the candidates must be prepared to accept the result of the entire process, as it was for George Bush and Al Gore, by putting the country’s interest before their personal ones”, says James Baker.
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