During tonight’s ‘Shock’ on Euronews Albania, focused on local politics and social commentary, analyst Andi Bushati said that Albin Kurit’s “loss” in Kosovo’s local elections, without him making any single attempt to manipulate the process or buy votes, is a true sign of democracy.
According to Bushati, if we compare this to what usually happens in Albania during our electoral processes, LVV’s final result in these last polls, even if it goes down as a ‘failure’, it will nonetheless be remembered as a merit of the central government.
Bushati referred to the incident in the commune of Skenderaj, where a mobilized opposition group tried to get votes at gunpoint, just because they wanted someone else in government.
“Albin Kurti is being labeled an authoritarian leader, a Hugo Chavez. An authoritarian leader that gets [opposition] commandos grab votes by force with Kalashnikovs, somewhere in Skenderaj. Let me tell you, you can’t have both.
Either he is too weak and should have exercised the law [in Skenderaj] or we have to accept that we’ve all of a sudden changed our understanding of concepts such as ‘democratic leader’ as opposed to ‘dictator’,” – argued Bushati.
On the contrary, analyst Baton Haxhiu believes that PM Kurti’s authority has gone down with his party’s low scores in the local elections.
And according to Haxhiu, this will make it harder for Kurti to put into practice, the promises, which got him elected in the first place on February 14, like the dialogue with Serbia.
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