{"id":12555,"date":"2021-04-30T18:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T18:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=12555"},"modified":"2021-04-30T18:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T18:22:18","slug":"minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Balluku reacts to vote-buying allegations made by DP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The General Secretary of the Democratic Party, Gazmend Bardhi, raised a series of vote-buying allegations accusing directly the Minister of Infrastructure and Energy Belinda Balluku.<\/p>\n<p>The candidate of the Socialist Party, who secured a parliamentary seat when the new legislative branch is formed, denied the accusation during an interview on Euronews Albania as \u201cbaseless\u201d and \u201clacking evidence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to Balluku, the accusations made by the Democrats are triggered by the state in which the DP is today, in the midst of a crisis and protests calling for the resignation of its leader Lulzim Basha.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Bruna \u00c7ifligu recalled that similar claims have also been pointed out in the preliminary report of OSCE\/ODIHR but minister Balluku said that \u201cGazmend Bardhi and his allies have in fact sold too many votes and that the report will come out like all the other times because everybody knows who buys votes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Infrastructure was among the top-voted candidates from the lines of the Socialist Party. She says that this encourages her to \u201cwork harder for citizens\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be one of the most voted candidates puts me in front of great responsibility to work even harder and preserve this voting trend in the future. When citizens mark your name you are responsible for every single ballot you\u2019ve received\u201d, said Balluku.<\/p>\n<p>She also thanked her opponents, particularly pointing out the great campaign led by Belind K\u00eblli\u00e7i, the leader of the Democratic Party\u2019s Youth Forum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI respect the candidate I was facing as he is a young man and led a good campaign, we did not have any problems\u201d, she said.<\/p>\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\/30\/supporters-gather-in-front-of-the-democratic-partys-hq-calling-on-basha-to-step-down\/\">\u201cWe must admit we\u2019re in the midst of a crisis\u201d, supporters call on Basha to step down<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/elections\/2021\/04\/30\/cec-confirms-results-on-candidates-concerned-over-the-high-number-of-invalid-ballots\/\">CEC confirms results on candidates, concerned over the high number of invalid ballots<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/elections\/2021\/04\/30\/renowned-names-of-albanian-politics-that-werent-able-to-secure-a-seat-in-parliament\/\">Renowned names of Albanian politics that weren\u2019t able to secure a seat in parliament<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Secretary of the Democratic Party, Gazmend Bardhi, raised a series of vote-buying allegations accusing directly the Minister of Infrastructure and Energy Belinda Balluku. The candidate of the Socialist Party, who secured a parliamentary seat when the new legislative branch is formed, denied the accusation during an interview on Euronews Albania as \u201cbaseless\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":12557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[150],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Minister Balluku reacts to vote-buying allegations made by DP - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minister Balluku reacts to vote-buying allegations made by DP - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The General Secretary of the Democratic Party, Gazmend Bardhi, raised a series of vote-buying allegations accusing directly the Minister of Infrastructure and Energy Belinda Balluku. The candidate of the Socialist Party, who secured a parliamentary seat when the new legislative branch is formed, denied the accusation during an interview on Euronews Albania as \u201cbaseless\u201d and [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/euronews.al\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-30T18:22:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_4-7.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"583\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"328\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@euronewsalbania\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@euronewsalbania\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Euronews Albania\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Euronews Albania\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/40904b56ee024949b80be8199e47e27d\"},\"headline\":\"Minister Balluku reacts to vote-buying allegations made by DP\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-30T18:22:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-04-30T18:22:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/\"},\"wordCount\":330,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_4-7.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Kryesor 1\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/\",\"name\":\"Minister Balluku reacts to vote-buying allegations made by DP - Euronews Albania\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_4-7.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-30T18:22:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-04-30T18:22:18+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_4-7.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_4-7.png\",\"width\":583,\"height\":328,\"caption\":\"Minister of Infrastructure and Energy Belinda Balluku on Euronews Tonight\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Minister Balluku reacts to vote-buying allegations made by DP\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Euronews Albania\",\"description\":\"Top stories in Albania, Kosovo and the Balkans\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Euronews Albania\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/logo-mobile-euronews-albania-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/logo-mobile-euronews-albania-1.png\",\"width\":280,\"height\":33,\"caption\":\"Euronews Albania\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/euronews.al\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/euronewsalbania\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/40904b56ee024949b80be8199e47e27d\",\"name\":\"Euronews Albania\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/euronews.al\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/author\/xhoi\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Minister Balluku reacts to vote-buying allegations made by DP - Euronews Albania","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Minister Balluku reacts to vote-buying allegations made by DP - Euronews Albania","og_description":"The General Secretary of the Democratic Party, Gazmend Bardhi, raised a series of vote-buying allegations accusing directly the Minister of Infrastructure and Energy Belinda Balluku. The candidate of the Socialist Party, who secured a parliamentary seat when the new legislative branch is formed, denied the accusation during an interview on Euronews Albania as \u201cbaseless\u201d and [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/","og_site_name":"Euronews Albania","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/euronews.al\/","article_published_time":"2021-04-30T18:22:18+00:00","og_image":[{"width":583,"height":328,"url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_4-7.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Euronews Albania","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@euronewsalbania","twitter_site":"@euronewsalbania","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Euronews Albania","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/"},"author":{"name":"Euronews Albania","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/40904b56ee024949b80be8199e47e27d"},"headline":"Minister Balluku reacts to vote-buying allegations made by DP","datePublished":"2021-04-30T18:22:18+00:00","dateModified":"2021-04-30T18:22:18+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/"},"wordCount":330,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_4-7.png","keywords":["Kryesor 1"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/","url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/","name":"Minister Balluku reacts to vote-buying allegations made by DP - Euronews Albania","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_4-7.png","datePublished":"2021-04-30T18:22:18+00:00","dateModified":"2021-04-30T18:22:18+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_4-7.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_4-7.png","width":583,"height":328,"caption":"Minister of Infrastructure and Energy Belinda Balluku on Euronews Tonight"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-balluku-reacts-to-vote-buying-allegations-made-by-dp\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Minister Balluku reacts to vote-buying allegations made by DP"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/","name":"Euronews Albania","description":"Top stories in Albania, Kosovo and the Balkans","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#organization","name":"Euronews Albania","url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/logo-mobile-euronews-albania-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/logo-mobile-euronews-albania-1.png","width":280,"height":33,"caption":"Euronews Albania"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/euronews.al\/","https:\/\/x.com\/euronewsalbania"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/40904b56ee024949b80be8199e47e27d","name":"Euronews Albania","sameAs":["http:\/\/euronews.al"],"url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/author\/xhoi\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}