{"id":14040,"date":"2021-05-21T12:06:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T12:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=14040"},"modified":"2021-05-21T12:11:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T12:11:36","slug":"fatbardh-kadilli-submits-formal-candidacy-for-the-chairmanship-of-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/fatbardh-kadilli-submits-formal-candidacy-for-the-chairmanship-of-democratic-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatbardh Kadilli officially running for leadership of the Democratic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fatbardh Kadilli has officially announced that he will be running for the leadership post of the Democratic Party. As he was exiting the party\u2019s headquarters, he told the media that the race will most likely be \u201casymmetric\u201d in front of the current leader Lulzim Basha.<\/p>\n<p>However, Kadilli said he has a \u201cmoral advantage\u201d and to do the \u201cimpossible to bring the DP up to its feet\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sitting leader will not even come out of his office and he had all the means to overcome his opponent Edi Rama, and these means will now be against me as a candidate\u201d, Kadilli said.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Kadilli emphasized he feels \u201csuperior\u201d when confronting Basha, as he is entering the race \u201cto serve to the party, and not to be served by it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy values are personal and political purity, political integration, experience and ability to keep my word, as well as loyal to the institutions and the people of the DP. I have never betrayed anyone at the DP, nor the DP, and I will not deceive Democrats in the efforts to revamp the Democratic Party\u201d, Kadilli stated.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party is holding internal elections on June 13 after the DP did not meet its expectations at the parliamentary polls held on April 25.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the Democrats Lulzim Basha has called the polls \u201can electoral massacre\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Fatbardh Kadilli, a renowned name between the lines of the Democratic Party, has called on Basha to step down.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on, Kadilli told Euronews Albania that he aims to take over the leadership of the party and bring back many of its distinctive figures that left in the past 8 years.<\/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\/05\/18\/democratic-party-needs-transformation-not-analysis-bujar-nishani-tells-euronews-albania\/\">Democratic Party needs transformation, not analysis, Bujar Nishani tells Euronews Albania<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/05\/17\/i-will-unify-dp-those-that-have-left-are-welcomed-back-says-candidate-for-democratic-partys-chairmanship\/\">I will unify DP, those that have left are welcomed back, says candidate for Democratic Party\u2019s chairmanship<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/05\/06\/for-the-dp-the-newly-formed-group-seeking-to-reform-the-democratic-party\/]\">\u201cFor the DP\u201d, the newly formed group seeking to reform the Democratic Party<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatbardh Kadilli has officially announced that he will be running for the leadership post of the Democratic Party. As he was exiting the party\u2019s headquarters, he told the media that the race will most likely be \u201casymmetric\u201d in front of the current leader Lulzim Basha. However, Kadilli said he has a \u201cmoral advantage\u201d and to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":14041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fatbardh Kadilli officially running for leadership of the Democratic Party - 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\/fatbardh-kadilli-submits-formal-candidacy-for-the-chairmanship-of-democratic-party\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fatbardh Kadilli officially running for leadership of the Democratic Party - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fatbardh Kadilli has officially announced that he will be running for the leadership post of the Democratic Party. 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