Lulzim Basha, invited to the show “The Unexposed” on MCN TV, has stated that he leads the Euro-Atlantic Democrats party and that this party has “colossus” in its ranks who will compete in the elections.
Asked by journalist Ylli Rakipi why he kept the DP seal with legal proceedings when he did not have the membership, Basha said that it is not true that Berisha has the majority of the membership and that this is determined by the statute and not public perception.
Studio conversation
Rakipi: For a long time you fought for the seal in the DP. Yesterday the court finally registered Saliu as the chairman, that is, the owner, who tore off the seal for a while, took it back. You kept the seal with legal proceedings when the membership clearly did not want you, but wanted Berisha. Why did you find it reasonable to keep the seal when you did not have legitimacy in the DP?
Basha: As in any reality, statutes and laws work. Someone says you are the majority, someone says you are the minority, someone says they want Saliu, others say they want Luli, but the law and the statute decide. We have taken it to the Supreme Court for recourse. The Supreme Court has said that the appeal must examine the case on its merits. The Court of Appeal, in violation of this decision, has not opened the case at all and has said that the party represented by Enkelejd Alibeaj is not legitimate. This has gone to the Supreme Court and we are waiting for justice.
Rakipi: Still? You don’t get it there. In this case, Saliu has them (membership).
Basha: You operate with the idea that was probably instilled in you since the 90s when you were close to Marshall, that the DP is Berisha’s private property.
Rakipi: Definitely. I was young then and I thought so. Now I think even worse, he is the owner. You accepted it in a way.
Basha: No, I said the opposite, the DP is not the Partizani club that can be privatized and become the property of neither one person nor one family.
Rakipi: It is more than the club, you just didn’t understand…
Basha: This is your opinion. Not only do I disagree, but it is the premise that the DP can never be the private property of one person. We will seek it in every court, up to Strasbourg, until we restore justice to this country. This does not prevent us from continuing to build our political alternative that we will have in the election.
Rakipi: What alternative, you have no name now.
Basha: We have the Euro-Atlantic Democrats. We will use the space that the Code gives us so that the open list and our program can be an offer.
Rakipi: These Euro-Atlantic Democrats, are you going to look for them in the ocean now, because you don’t have this one? There are no people in the Atlantic, brother, you have fish… You say we are Euro-Atlantic Democrats, he has seized all his property…
Basha: He has locked himself in a small group of selfish people, who have trampled on the hopes of the Democrats for change for their own sake.
Rakipi: He also took the people you created. They kiss him on the forehead.
Basha: They are people who have seen the DP as a way of personal gain. I am happy that they are no longer on my side. Today I have people who are colossal. Maybe their names have not managed to be revealed in the media, but they are people who have fought and stood
Rakipi: What colossal? Where are your colossals, brother, you are driving us crazy, where are your colossals?
Basha: Colossus in attitude, colossus in thought, colossus in commitment, because in a difficult time when the people we had put heavy shoulder pads on and went to lick what they had spat on, these other people, some of whom you probably know…
Rakipi: Where are the hours, get out! We call you here and interview you.
Basha: You have had some of them, deputies, members of the leadership.
Rakipi: I only know Pampurin. Who else is there? Did those G-12 leave too? The one you had the closest to, Alibeu, left and created 1912.
Basha: Very well, he thought the same as you, that the DP is Berisha’s property and another party is needed. While I and hundreds of thousands of others, think that the DP cannot be anyone’s private property and we will fight until the end in court, in the meantime we will fight the battle in front of the Albanians…
Rakipi: You may be, but I do not understand this. He now the owner, took everyone, even those you had, even those you created. You tell me there are giants, no, Sami Frashëri and Petro Nini Luarasi were born to come to you. Where did you get them?
Basha: Cloud with your feet inside. You admit that a number of individuals in some cases, as you said yourself, brought out of anonymity by me, clothed with trust from the democrats’ vote and then who have sunk into the pocket of their small interests, who have begun to lick with great passion what they have spat out for three years and who today surround a non-grata political leader from the USA and the UK, accused of corruption, constituted an alternative, while a group that rejects precisely this, the premise of a private property party, a group that has stood in front of a river of bile, slander, the most savage attacks, not only verbal, that they are in a bargain with each other, why do they stand? Because they believe in something greater, it is worth fighting this war. So, in this assumption, Albanians are treated like fish.
