{"id":36676,"date":"2022-05-19T13:38:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T11:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=36676"},"modified":"2022-05-19T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T11:43:32","slug":"dps-first-presidential-nominees-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/dps-first-presidential-nominees-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"DP\u2019s first presidential nominees revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The parliamentary group of the Democratic Party met on Thursday to come to an agreement on the names to be proposed for president.<\/p>\n<p>The two names that were proposed so far are Leonard Demi and Arben Cejku.<\/p>\n<p>Demi is a former member of parliament, former chair of the parliamentary committee on security, and has also served as Albania\u2019s Ambassador to NATO.<\/p>\n<p>Cejku is a diplomat and Albania\u2019s former ambassador to North Macedonia.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting led by Enkelejd Alibeaj was attended by 23 MPs.<\/p>\n<p>Alibeaj also met with DP\u2019s allies ahead of the group meeting, including Mesila Doda and Agron Duka.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Socialists accepted a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/05\/18\/agreement-for-the-new-president-only-the-opposition-will-propose-a-candidature-during-the-2nd-and-3rd-round\/\">draft<\/a> <\/strong>proposed by the opposition granting them the right to choose the candidates for the second and third rounds.<\/p>\n<p>According to the draft, the opposition must propose four names, and the ruling majority has the right to disqualify two of them.<\/p>\n<p>A commission will be tasked to pick the final candidate that will go for a vote in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition has until Sunday at 4 PM to submit all four candidates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/05\/18\/dashamir-shehi-ready-to-run-for-president-if-parties-agree\/\">Dashamir Shehi: Ready to run for president if parties agree<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/05\/18\/alibeaj-the-president-must-be-elected-during-the-first-3-rounds\/\">Alibeaj: The president must be elected during the first 3 rounds<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/today\/2022\/05\/17\/mediu-the-opposition-shouldnt-propose-a-president-without-reaching-a-unanimous-decision\/\">Mediu: The opposition shouldn\u2019t propose a president without reaching a unanimous decision<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parliamentary group of the Democratic Party met on Thursday to come to an agreement on the names to be proposed for president. The two names that were proposed so far are Leonard Demi and Arben Cejku. Demi is a former member of parliament, former chair of the parliamentary committee on security, and has also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":36677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[270,305,150,151,450],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DP\u2019s first presidential nominees revealed - 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\/dps-first-presidential-nominees-revealed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DP\u2019s first presidential nominees revealed - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The parliamentary group of the Democratic Party met on Thursday to come to an agreement on the names to be proposed for president. 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