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"I had known him for 12 years"/ Lapaj: Shabani proposed the closed lists with family members

2025-07-22 21:50:00, Politikë CNA

"I had known him for 12 years"/ Lapaj: Shabani proposed the closed

Co-leader of the 'Albania Becomes' Initiative coalition, Adriatik Lapaj, continued today his comments regarding the attacks of recent days with Endrit Shabani.

Invited to the 'Debate' show on A2CNN, Lapaj focused on the process of dividing the names on the closed list, the joint proposals, as well as his acquaintance with Shabani.

"We have been committed to opening the lists, we have also gone to the Constitutional Court. From a distance, the same thing was also noticed by the Nisma Thurje Initiative. What has united us have been the same principles regarding competition, meritocracy and open lists. We took the first step to the Constitutional Court where we went to oppose the closing of the lists. In this regard, the cooperation that took place at the request of many citizens was met and discussed with the formula that would be used to have coherence regarding the open lists. This formula was proposed by him with his family members. I had my hesitations, but the total temptation to give the citizens that open list as they had been committed to was not to escape responsibility but to tell the truth. There are many witnesses but there is no problem. I bear full responsibility for that decision-making because if I had not expressed my consensus, this would not have happened. The law is unfair, it steals the votes of citizens. The law has openly stolen from us 5 mandates. They want to remove the latter with a sneer. We wanted to challenge the law. This was a unanimous decision of our leadership and I don't know about the other side. If I had been convinced that it wouldn't work, I would have insisted on no. It was very honest on our part. I didn't know Mr. Shabani today, I had known him for 12 years, we had friends beyond politics and to be honest, this may be my personal mistake for which I apologize to those who supported us. At this point, I showed a lower level of care in relation to what I could do because I thought that beyond politics is the human relationship between us, which turned out to be inappropriate", - said Lapaj. /CNA





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