Çollaku: The DP should read itself

2025-05-22 14:44:00, Politikë CNA

Kreshnik Çollaku

The Democratic Party's candidate for Tirana, Kreshnik Çollaku, in an interview with the media, stated that he supports the leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, when he talks about the electoral farce, while also not sparing criticism of the Democrats.

"I agree with Mr. Berisha's position that they were a farce, a repeated farce, sadly and tragically a farce repeated for the fourth time in Albania. Clearly, Edi Rama's majority has created a perfect, almost perfect industry of popular deviation," Çollaku said.

According to him, the opposition should focus on two parallel battles, identifying facts and critical internal analysis.

"The opposition must fight two battles, the first for what it has started. I also support this process of Mr. Berisha, of identifying the facts, not with political rhetoric, not with wishes. We need evidence and facts and administration of facts, but also public denunciation or those with an international mandate. The second is a critical internal analysis of where we lost and where we failed in order to fail for the fourth time the manipulation of Edi Rama," said Çollaku.

Among other things, Çollaku emphasized that the opposition's fatal mistake was that it voted for the changes to the Electoral Code.

"I have warned that with the approval of this electoral code, the opposition would lose at least 12 mandates, due to its political situation and because of the Code. In my opinion, the opposition's fatal mistake is that it voted for the changes to the Code," Çollaku continued.

There was also criticism regarding the opposition candidates, his colleagues, adding that none of them worked as a group.

He said that everyone must be held responsible.

"No opposition candidate worked in a group. No DP candidate could work in a group. They must definitely be held responsible, all the leaders of the DP, because they did not recognize the farce and the reality. They did not even denounce it. They would come out in the morning saying that the opposition won, the votes are in the box and then what happened," said Çollaku.

According to Çollaku, what was won were Sali Berisha's personal votes, as no one in the DP lifted a finger to increase the votes.

"These are Sali Berisha's personal votes, that's what I think. He got them in '97, he got them in 2001 against the courts. No one in the DP has lifted a finger to add this vote. They have simply used mechanisms within the DP to get votes from Berisha," said Çollaku.

In conclusion, Çollaku says that the DP must read itself and that it cannot be treated as a parasitic party.

"The Democratic Party cannot be treated as a parasitic party, waiting for what Sali Berisha says and does. The DP must read itself," concluded Çollaku./ CNA