The Sara Mila/Blendi Klosi Phenomenon: Had Her Support

2025-05-29 22:48:00, Politikë CNA

SP Secretary General Blendi Klosi spoke on MCN TV about the Sara Mila phenomenon, how it is possible that she received around 20 thousand euros.

Klosi said that the candidate had her own support, her own wing, I don't believe there is any major change in the SP vote from 2021 to 2025 in Elbasan.

Excerpt from the conversation

Blendi Klosi: The race was like this, the open and closed list. In the closed list were the protected ones and in the open part, candidates who campaigned independently. Each candidate had their own ground. This debate was also held four years ago. In certain districts, the vote goes in one direction. Those who received many votes in 2021 may no longer have as many votes today. There was a certain moment in Elbasan, the candidate had her own support, her own wing, I don't believe there is any big change in the PS vote from 2021 to 2025 in Elbasan. In Dibër there was a little more. But in Elbasan the vote is the same. How is it divided into 7-8 candidates who were running... We in Elbasan got a 10-4 result because there was a difference in the race, it was a race where the DP did not exist on the ground. There was no one who thought that the opposition would accept defeat and reform. What has always happened with Berisha happened. Berisha's sentences were known, no one was surprised. This is the situation on the ground. Certain lobbies create a certain element.

Andi Tela: How is this possible? Sara Mila, an unknown character, for every 4 votes for the SP, she gets one. Gonxhe also got 24 thousand votes, but for every 10 votes for the SP she gets 1. Or in Dibër, for every two votes for the SP, the first person on the list gets one, she got 12 thousand votes.

Blendi Klosi: He received 15 thousand for that work. The terrain is like that, the lobbies are like that, the spirit changes from region to region. People's lobbies, the structure, the way the vote is divided is within the party, the strength of the individual, the spaces. In Elbasan and everywhere the vote of 2021 is equal to the vote of 2025.

Andi Tela: How is it possible for a completely unknown character?

Blendi Klosi: That race was. 4 years ago there were other people in the race. There was a different spirit, a completely different formula. The PS gets the votes and then as it divides, certain elements create certain lobbies. Those who got votes in 2021, some are not in Parliament today.

Andi Tela: It doesn't make sense for an unknown person to get more votes than everyone else. What did she do more than everyone else? Who lobbied?

Blendi Klosi: There were party structures. The DP received 200 thousand fewer votes, that's why they lost./ CNA