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"Pity for Tiku!"/ Shabani tells Lapaj: The mandate was never yours

2025-07-16 19:02:00, Politikë CNA

"Pity for Tiku!"/ Shabani tells Lapaj: The mandate was never yours

Endrit Shabani, co-leader of the 'Albania Becomes' Initiative coalition, together with Adriatik Lapaj, has reacted again to the latter, on a Wednesday of statements and counter-statements with each other.

Through a post on social media, Shabani expresses his regret for Lapaj's statements and highlights three explanations for this case.

"I regret Tiku's hasty statement declaring me an enemy of the class. I should have thought that after Arlindi and Agron, I was the only one left from the youth front."

However, in the public interest, I want to clarify three things.

 Tiku may have learned to appropriate the work of others, but without the votes of Nisma Thurje, or without my votes, he would never have become an MP!!!

In these elections, 13,500 votes were needed to win a seat in Tirana. Adriatiku received 6,436 votes. So, the other 7,000 votes were received by other candidates.

So if we weren't in a coalition, Albania Becomes would be out of Parliament. So instead of attacking me, Tiku should thank me!

 In these elections, there has been only one person who has publicly declared a commitment to activists and voters, and he is the leader of the coalition.

With voice and image, in some media, Adriatik Lapaj has publicly pledged that if we only won one mandate, that mandate would not belong to him. This statement served to motivate activists to work for the common interest, and not to make Tiku an MP. After the elections, Adriatik trembled, and this was not liked by many of us, including Zeqiri.

Believing that "a man is kept by his word," Zeqiri helped Tiku keep his word and pass the mandate to someone else from his party.

 We have long accepted that responsibility is individual.

And in fact, as the man who signed the lists, and who delayed them until 12 midnight, Tiku bears total responsibility for mistakenly including Zeqiri on the closed list, replacing him with Majlina Ziko. Now he is asking me to take responsibility for a soup he cooked himself!

Zeqiri is a 60-year-old man, and he cannot be used by me or by Adriatiku. He has his own dignity, and when he saw that Adriatiku was playing games, he reacted. While I tried to calm the situation, Tiku chose the path of pressure. And when Zeqiri was faced with threats against his children, he decided not to back down.

To be honest, I didn't agree with Zeqiri's behavior, but when I see how, still without power, these people are willing to threaten your children, I don't know what to say.

"At the end of the day, we are not fighting to replace old wolves with young cubs who kill for power. We are fighting for politics to have another face: one of honesty and keeping our word. And this battle will not be stopped by those who want to grab the chair, but will be won by those who keep their word even when the chair passes them by," Shabani said./CNA





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