{"id":30627,"date":"2022-01-31T14:54:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T13:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=30627"},"modified":"2022-01-31T16:25:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T15:25:41","slug":"berisha-confirms-dp-smi-coalition-in-upcoming-by-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/berisha-confirms-dp-smi-coalition-in-upcoming-by-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Berisha confirms DP-SMI coalition in upcoming by-elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sali Berisha has just declared that his DP faction will be entering a coalition with SMI in the upcoming by-elections set to take place on March 6. This DP-SMI coalition has been dubbed \u2018The Home of Freedom\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The former PM didn\u2019t exclude the possibility of adding additional smaller parties to this coalition, confirming his earlier calls for a \u2018grand opposition front\u2019 to go up against the ruling party and the official Democratic Party &#8211; run by Lulzim Basha &#8211; in these local by-elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRama has confiscated DP and the DP logo and his main goal was to stop us from running in these elections. We will be participating in these elections because any form of boycott will not an option for us. We will enter a coalition and SMI is part of that coalition. We are currently negotiating with other parties as well,\u201d \u2013 said Berisha.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he confirmed that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/01\/29\/who-will-run-for-berishas-faction-at-the-by-elections\/\">his candidates<\/a><\/strong> will be running under a different party banner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/01\/30\/berishas-faction-holds-primaries-to-elect-candidates-ahead-of-by-elections\/\">Berisha\u2019s faction holds primaries to elect candidates ahead of by-elections<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/01\/29\/who-will-run-for-berishas-faction-at-the-by-elections\/\">Who will run for Berisha\u2019s faction at the by-elections?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/barometer\/2022\/01\/27\/public-approval-rating-rama-benefits-from-berisha-basha-feud\/\">Public approval rating tanks, Rama benefits from Berisha-Basha feud<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sali Berisha has just declared that his DP faction will be entering a coalition with SMI in the upcoming by-elections set to take place on March 6. This DP-SMI coalition has been dubbed \u2018The Home of Freedom\u2019. The former PM didn\u2019t exclude the possibility of adding additional smaller parties to this coalition, confirming his earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":30635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[361,406,420,150,151,421],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Berisha confirms DP-SMI coalition in upcoming by-elections - 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\/berisha-confirms-dp-smi-coalition-in-upcoming-by-elections\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Berisha confirms DP-SMI coalition in upcoming by-elections - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sali Berisha has just declared that his DP faction will be entering a coalition with SMI in the upcoming by-elections set to take place on March 6. 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