Berat, District Council “goes” right

21/09/2011 21:25

The Municipal Council of Berat will be led by the Alliance for the
Citizen. Petrit Sina was chosen as Chairman of the District Council,
after four Socialist Councilors passed with the Democratic Party and the
Socialist Movement for Integration.

After the voting of 51 members of the Council, Sina took 27 votes while the Socialist candidate of Alliance for the Future, Pelivan Shatri, took 24 votes.

In this meeting was present the SMI leader, Ilir Meta, and Democratic MPs of the district, Genc Pollo, Lefter Maliqi, Mehmet Xheka and Nasip Naço.

This is the second Municipal Council that the Socialist Party has lost recently, after that of Fier, where only yesterday the votes of two left centered councilors went to the Democratic Party and their allies.

Fier, SP loses Municipal Council

The votes of the two left centered councilors returned the Democratic Party and their right centered allies in majority at the Fier Municipal Council.

During an extraordinary meeting, 16 right centered councilors, together with two councilors from the Socialist Party and one from the Social Democratic Party decided to dismiss the head of the Municipality Council and replace him with someone else. The meeting was held in the presence of two Democratic MPs, Enkelejd Alibeaj and Vasillaq Ngresi.

The voting continued with the discharging of four members from the District Council who were replaced with four others, among whom was Aleksander Myrtaj, the Socialist Councilor who went with the Socialist Movement for Integration and was rewarded for this. They also discharged two Vice Chairmen and the Supervision Board for the Aqueduct, whose management have had many conflicts with the representatives chosen by the Socialist Party in this area. The decisions have brought the reaction of the Mayor.

The Socialist MP, Armando Subashi declared that the decisions of the Municipal Council are invalid.

According to MP Albert Caci, the actions that were undertaken in this meeting of the Fier Municipal Council are a continuance of the DP policy, which is the same in Parliament.

Although the Socialists won the majority on May 8th elections, now they have to face with a Municipal Council that they do not control anymore, since their chosen people passed with the majority and were rewarded for this.

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