{"id":10445,"date":"2021-04-14T19:50:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T19:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=10445"},"modified":"2021-04-14T19:50:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T19:50:32","slug":"our-objective-is-to-win-over-200-000-votes-in-tirana-says-mayor-veliaj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/our-objective-is-to-win-over-200-000-votes-in-tirana-says-mayor-veliaj\/","title":{"rendered":"Our objective is to win over 200.000 votes in Tirana, says Mayor Veliaj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayor of Tirana confidently said that the Socialist Party will win the general elections, as he spoke of an \u201cartificial unification\u201d of the opposition forces.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the fact that the \u00c7am minority party locked forces with the Greek minority party is something \u201cimmoral\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, he said that Lulzim Basha is in fact a \u201cvictim\u201d because the de-facto leaders of the opposition are Sali Berisha and Ilir Meta.<\/p>\n<p>Asked over what would mean a victory and loss in Tirana, Mayor Veliaj asserted that they&#8217;re eyeing a better result from previous elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery result larger than that in 2017 would mean victory, so getting over 200.000 votes is our objective in order to have a moral majority\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2017 parliamentary polls, when the SP, DP, and SMI raced separately, the results were as follow:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>18 mandates for the SP (200,517 votes)<\/li>\n<li>11 mandates for the DP (12,865 votes)<\/li>\n<li>5 mandates for the SMI (55,894 votes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/04\/14\/mayor-veliaj-on-the-bitter-campaign-to-show-citizens-the-differences-between-sides\/\">Mayor Veliaj on the bitter campaign: To show citizens the distinction between sides<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayor of Tirana confidently said that the Socialist Party will win the general elections, as he spoke of an \u201cartificial unification\u201d of the opposition forces. 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