{"id":35815,"date":"2022-05-06T11:06:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T09:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=35815"},"modified":"2022-05-06T12:10:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T10:10:57","slug":"nano-for-president-gjiknuri-not-excluding-anyone-with-contributions-to-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/nano-for-president-gjiknuri-not-excluding-anyone-with-contributions-to-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Nano for President? Gjiknuri: Not excluding anyone with contributions to the party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every personality with a contribution to the Socialist Party, that is not a member of the parliamentary group or politically active, is a potential candidate for president.<\/p>\n<p>These were the words used by Socialist MP Damian Gjiknuri, who is also part of the ruling majority\u2019s team set up to find a presidential candidate when asked about the chances that the former leader of the Socialist Party, Fatos Nano, has of being the Socialist nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Gjiknuri refused to mention specific names, but took as an example former president Alfred Moisiu, a personality without political ambitions that was able to preserve the balance of power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt might be someone who has given a contribution to the Socialist Party. No one is excluded, even the name you mentioned [Fatos Nano]\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is necessary to have someone without a political agenda, not to meddle politics with the office of the president, as President Meta did in the past 5 years. We need someone without further political ambitions, and history has proved that, as in the case of ex-president Moisiu, a person that was not involved and had no ambitions in politics\u201d, concluded Gjiknuri.<\/p>\n<p>He also invited the Democratic Party to put forward their presidential nominee but emphasized that Sali Berisha must remain out of the process.<\/p>\n<p>Fatos Nano served as Prime Minister of Albania in 1991, from 1997 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2005.<\/p>\n<p>After losing the parliamentary polls to the Democratic Party in 2005, Nano took a step back from politics and has not been actively involved since then.<\/p>\n<p>He was also the first leader and founder of the Albanian Socialist Party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/05\/05\/dp-to-convene-parliamentary-group-meeting-over-president-election\/\">DP to convene parliamentary group over president election<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/now\/2022\/05\/04\/president-election-mediu-not-an-all-inclusive-process-smi-was-left-out\/\">President election, Mediu: It should be an all-inclusive process, SMI was left out<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/05\/04\/procedures-for-electing-new-president-commence-today\/\">Procedures for electing new president commence<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every personality with a contribution to the Socialist Party, that is not a member of the parliamentary group or politically active, is a potential candidate for president. 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