MP Ben Blushi declared that he would bring his own political platform at
the Socialist Party Congress, which will be held on March 19th. This means that he might run against Edi Rama.
Blushi said that it is more important for the party to have a democratic electoral process. Journalist Muhamed Veliu had this interview with MP Blushi:
TCH: Will you run for party leader, against Edi Rama?
Ben Blushi: This is not the point. The point is if there will ever be elections. Edi Rama will give this answer. Why is he hampering the elections for party leader? This is the biggest dilemma of this Congress. Certainly that there should be elections. There is no party with a seven-year mandate. It is impossible, unfair. No European party has a tradition with a leader that has an endless mandate. I cannot accept this, if we go for this to the Congress. I will say if I will run or not the day there will be elections.
TCH: If there will be a race, will you be ready to run?
Ben Blushi: I believe there is reason to have more than one candidate in the congress. Not only to give a meaning to the race, but because the Socialist Party needs an alternative platform for a better governing, the stance it should keep, the coalition it has or that it needs, and other matters that are being discussed and to which this Socialist Party is unable to give the right answers.
TCH: Will you be one of those in the race?
Ben Blushi: I will be able to say it the day there will be elections. We must decide first to have elections. There cannot be a party without elections. Why don’t you ask Edi Rama why he is hampering the elections in the party? What is the reason?
TCH: There are insinuations that you are building a new party. How true is this?
Ben Blushi: I have been part of a political party since 1997. I hope it will get better and I am trying for it to get better, because there are chances for it to get better. My question for every person is if there can be a democratic country when its parties are not democratic within themselves? Can European countries be democratic if their parties don’t represent those with a different opinion? Imagine if they had no internal elections and gave their leaders an eternal mandate. This is a disgrace that is going on in Albania. The problems that we have today, criminalization, suspicious funding, the lack of collegiality, the decisions outside the statute that fall against the program… especially in our case, because this government is not running the country as a left government. Everything is falling under one single man. I am against this practice and we will go to the Congress to refute this will.
TCH: Are you going to bring your own platform at the Congress?
Ben Blushi: Of course. I will certainly bring or support a platform.
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