Did not enter parliament/ Meta rejects Blushi's mandate

2025-05-18 14:56:00, Politikë CNA

Did not enter parliament/ Meta rejects Blushi's mandate

Leader of the Freedom Party, Ilir Meta

The leader of the Freedom Party, Ilir Meta, this time took part in the 2025 elections from prison, where he ran on an open list for Tirana under the PD-ASHM banner and did not receive the votes to secure the mandate of MP.

A much-discussed scheme was for Tedi Blushi to give him the mandate by withdrawing, but Meta rejected this mandate.

Despite not being able to get the votes to secure a mandate to be part of the next legislature, Meta says he cannot accept any gimmick or pragmatic solution that goes against the major causes for which he says he has fought and will always fight.

"First of all, I thank the approximately 8,000 voters who voted for Ilir Metaj, who resisted the extraordinary pressures of the Drug State and did not sell their freedom, their soul, or their character in the face of a criminal state machine that severely violated election standards, democracy, and the rule of law at its foundation.

For me, they are not voters but heroes and will forever enjoy all my boundless gratitude.

Some benevolent voices, but also others diabolical, suggest that as a way to obtain my parliamentary mandate, the resignation of the Freedom Party candidates on the closed list of the Tirana District.

I want to assure everyone that Ilir Metaj, since 2008, when the adverse constitutional changes were made, has fought for representation only through the free and open will of the citizens, in a continuous and principled manner, because this is a matter of my conviction and character and as a result I cannot accept any gimmick or pragmatic solution that goes against the major causes for which I have fought and will always fight.

I would like to thank and appreciate Tedi Blushi, and other colleagues in the Freedom Party who fought with dedication in this unequal campaign in the face of the Drug State and its criminal electoral machinery, infidelities, and backstabbing.

"A special thank you to all those commissioners, counters and observers, who are continuing with persistence and high responsibility to count and protect every vote until the last one," Meta declared through his reaction on social networks./ CNA