Topi: No coalition with old major parties

Topi declared that the political decision to become part of the NDS is a civil mission for him, in order to make everything possible to serve to the citizens and the country. Topi criticized the DP and SP as responsible for the prolonged transition.

“20 years ago the citizens demonstrated with the hope to become as the rest of Europe. After two decades, they have reasons to feel disappointed by politics and not represented by the political clans. NDS transmits this wide request of the citizens for a new spirit, a new mentality and a new politics that will bring a new agenda for the development of democracy and progress”, Topi declared.

For Bamir Topi, Albania has an urgent need to improve the political system and the government, and also to reinforce the democracy standards. The newly elected NDS leader declared that in the next Parliamentary elections, this political force will have no coalition with the two old parties, the DP and SP.

“We exclude it categorically, although politics has a principle that never you should say never, at least for the opinion that I am expressing today, which has been widely consulted with the colleagues. In the elections of 2013 we will not be in coalition with any of the old parties of the transition”, Topi declared.

Asked by Top Channel of how concerning and alarming is the declaration of the former US Ambassador Withers on Top Channel’s “Top Story”, who said that the Albanian democracy is on the edge, Topi declared that the concerns of the ambassador are founded and he added that these concerns were part of his discussions with him when Withers still represented America and when Topi was President.

“With Ambassador Withers we shared the concerns about democracy, as we do with every representative of this friend country for Albania. We have constantly been in full harmony and I guarantee you that we are in a very difficult moment, when everything is going in one single pair of hands”, Topi declared.

During his first press release as NDS leader, Topi transmitted the message that the level of the Albanian democracy today looks like that of the early nineties. But my appeal goes to all citizens who are more skeptical towards politics in general, who are tired from politics and have lost the trust that things will change.

Top added that even in 1990 there were citizens like these, but then they had the great courage and passion of Tirana’s civilization. The students of the university elite brought the change by bringing down one of the most Stalinist regimes in Europe.

“We decide our fate each day by taking our responsibilities”, Topi declared.

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