The member of the National Council of the Democratic Party, Besnik
Mustafaj, was invited today on Top Channel’s main news edition to
discuss the election of the new Democratic Party leader, Lulzim Basha.
Ilir Paço: Mr.Mustafaj. The Democratic Party has held elections for the first time and has an official new leader, Lulzim Basha. Today we saw Mr.Berisha calling Basha a success story of the Democratic Party, and we also heard Mr.Basha saying that he will fight basing his principles on the values of Mr. Berisha. We also heard Mr.Olldashi declaring that the process was damaged and that this was not a race. How do you see these elections at the Democratic Party? Was there a race?
Besnik Mustafaj: I have said that the race is difficult because the candidates were handpicked, and there were problems with the lists and the serial numbers. This dims the chances to have a real race. This was just a friendly match and the real challenges are ahead, so that this can turn in the future into a real match within the Democratic Party, and so that it can create a race of values, which is the only way to form a leadership.
Ilir Paço: Mr.Berisha declared that Basha is a success history, but he also planned his route. Do you think that Basha will be independent in leading the Democratic Party, or Mr.Berisha will still be a dominant factor and his resignation is just a formality?
Besnik Mustafaj: Beyond all problematics, we can say that Basha has full legitimacy because he has most of the Democratic Party membership. As a veteran supporter of the Democratic Party, I support him, but Basha has several urgent challenges and the first one is setting a limit to Berisha. If he doesn’t do this, he will be unable to become the leader of this party. The first urgent challenge of Basha is to set the limits to Berisha and tell him that he is the new leader. Berisha made a mistake today and planned the program of the party leader. The second challenge is waking up the Democratic Party, which is in a traumatized situation now, to the point that it doesn’t even have the membership list.
Ilir Paço: Do you think that there are many people in the highest ranks of the Democratic Party who are not satisfied in this moment? Probably at the National Council or the current leadership? Do you think that these elections created division withini the Democratic Party, based on the declarations of Mr.Olldashi?
Besnik Mustafaj: Things should be seen with realism. It was not impossible to hold a perfect process. The current leadership has the chance to take things more carefully. The Democratic Party has room for everyone, and it will be the talent, the ability and the vision of Basha to show that he will divide the Democratic Party, rather than dividing it. As regards the declaration of Olldashi, I have to make a serious remark to his political behavior. He should have not made this declaration at the Ministry, but at the Democratic Party headquarters, because he is the alternative for the Democratic Party leadership. The rest seems the normal behavior of a politician.
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