{"id":31827,"date":"2022-02-19T12:35:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T11:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=31827"},"modified":"2022-02-19T12:35:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T11:35:38","slug":"basha-kicks-off-by-elections-campaign-from-shkodra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/basha-kicks-off-by-elections-campaign-from-shkodra\/","title":{"rendered":"Basha kicks off by-elections campaign from Shkodra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The campaign for the by-elections officially began on Saturday, with citizens from six municipalities heading to the polls to vote for their new mayor.<\/p>\n<p>By-elections are due in Durres, Shkodra, Diber, Vora, Lushnje, and Rrogozhina on March 6.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the Democratic Party Lulzim Basha <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lulzimbasha.al\/videos\/1263812877442275\">kicked off the campaign in Shkodra<\/a> <\/strong>from where he introduced Democrat nominee Xhemal Bushati.<\/p>\n<p>Basha emphasized that the people of Shkodra \u2018are not be messed around with\u2019 and that they should pick Bushati as the best alternative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cXhemal Bushati is the best candidate for Shkodra. I am proud that he is our nominee. Shkodra will vote for the DP\u201d, declared Basha.<\/p>\n<p>Bushati will compete for Shkodra against two other candidates. Bardh Spahia from the House of Freedom and Majlinda Angoni from the Socialist Party.<\/p>\n<p>Shkodra, a stronghold of the Democrats for over three decades, will most likely turn into a battlefield between the two factions of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/02\/01\/11-parties-set-to-patriciate-in-the-upcoming-by-elections\/\">11 parties set to participate in the upcoming by-elections<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/01\/31\/berisha-confirms-dp-smi-coalition-in-upcoming-by-elections\/\">Berisha confirms DP-SMI coalition in upcoming by-elections<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The campaign for the by-elections officially began on Saturday, with citizens from six municipalities heading to the polls to vote for their new mayor. By-elections are due in Durres, Shkodra, Diber, Vora, Lushnje, and Rrogozhina on March 6. The leader of the Democratic Party Lulzim Basha kicked off the campaign in Shkodra from where he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":31828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[270,280,392,151,393,375],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Basha kicks off by-elections campaign from Shkodra - 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\/basha-kicks-off-by-elections-campaign-from-shkodra\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Basha kicks off by-elections campaign from Shkodra - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The campaign for the by-elections officially began on Saturday, with citizens from six municipalities heading to the polls to vote for their new mayor. 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