{"id":33045,"date":"2022-03-17T13:05:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T12:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=33045"},"modified":"2022-03-17T13:06:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T12:06:55","slug":"basha-appoints-lobbyist-to-solve-dp-rift-former-eu-official-meets-with-basha-and-berisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/basha-appoints-lobbyist-to-solve-dp-rift-former-eu-official-meets-with-basha-and-berisha\/","title":{"rendered":"Basha hires lobbyist to solve DP rift, former EU official meets with Berisha and other MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DP chairman Lulzim Basha has appointed a lobbyist to mediate the internal conflict within DP.<\/p>\n<p>Sources have told Euronews Albania that Elmar Brok \u2013 the former chair of the European Parliament Committee of Foreign Affairs \u2013 arrived in Tirana last night to assist Basha with the crisis within DP.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Brok dined with Lulzim Basha, and yesterday he had a meeting with Sali Berisha.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, today he will meet with Jozefina Topalli, and tomorrow, he\u2019s planned meetings with MPs that have openly come out against Basha.<\/p>\n<p>Brok has told both sides that Basha is in favor of holding a single electoral process with the Democratic Party, but he has asked to remain DP\u2019s chairman and manage the elections.<\/p>\n<p>This proposal has already been refuted by Sali Berisha and members of his DP faction.<\/p>\n<p>Brok works as a lobbyist for Basha since the April 2021 elections. He has served as an MEP from 1980 to 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DP chairman Lulzim Basha has appointed a lobbyist to mediate the internal conflict within DP. Sources have told Euronews Albania that Elmar Brok \u2013 the former chair of the European Parliament Committee of Foreign Affairs \u2013 arrived in Tirana last night to assist Basha with the crisis within DP. 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