{"id":19753,"date":"2021-09-07T21:01:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T19:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=19753"},"modified":"2021-09-07T21:15:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T19:15:13","slug":"berishas-defense-bushati-embassies-should-pull-out-the-facts-if-what-they-truly-want-is-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/berishas-defense-bushati-embassies-should-pull-out-the-facts-if-what-they-truly-want-is-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bushati on Berisha’s defense: Embassies must bring out the facts should they truly want democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Political analyst, Andi Bushati urged the US embassy to bring out the facts on Sali Berisha, should they want \u2018true democracy\u2019 to reign in Albania.<\/p>\n

During Euronews Albania\u2019s talk show focused on local politics and commentary \u2013 \u2018Shock\u2019 \u2013 Bushati said that from a moral perspective, Berisha should\u2019ve been the one to back down first without the need for a debate. However, from a judicial point of view, if you can\u2019t show the proof, you can\u2019t give rise to a precedent.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the embassies really want democracy, they would do all of us a favor by bringing out the case files. But, they can\u2019t just create a standard by which a politician, who gets voted by Albanian citizens, can\u2019t be MP just because an embassy simply says so. We\u2019re either in an embassocracy<\/em> or in a democracy,\u201d \u2013 said Bushati.<\/p>\n

Bushati continued by saying that the Democratic Party is at a tough spot at the moment, due to its past.<\/p>\n

\u201cDP is currently standing before a great dilemma. They should either come out and admit that they\u2019re servants of the embassy, or they should re-conceptualize their past 30 years because if Berisha is in fact a minus for our democracy and a thief of public funds, that would ruin the last 30 years of the Democratic Party because we all know that he [Berisha] was<\/em> the DP,\u201d \u2013 argued Bushati.<\/p>\n

\u2018Berisha wants to drag the party down with him’<\/strong><\/h5>\n

In turn, political analyst, Baton Haxhiu called Berisha\u2019s recent statement \u2018immoral\u2019 and accused him of wanting to drag down the party with him.<\/p>\n

Last night, Berisha replied to a question by Erla Mehilli asking him what he would do in case the Democrats end up expelling him because of this, by saying that he \u201cwould do anything to return the party back to its original stages\u201d.<\/p>\n

Haxhiu called Berisha \u201cimmoral\u201d and his stance an \u201cimmoral one\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, Bushati sees it in another light. In fact, he claimed that Berisha\u2019s entire interview with Erla Mehilli was \u2018utterly logical\u2019 and to the point.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found the interview quite logical. He said: \u2018DP will be making a mistake if they don\u2019t expel me, the moment they are presented with a single fact, but if DP condemns me because of an order issued by the US embassy, that would be a problem now wouldn\u2019t it?\u201d \u2013 argued Bushati.<\/p>\n

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