{"id":37507,"date":"2022-06-03T14:25:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T12:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=37507"},"modified":"2022-06-03T14:25:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T12:25:15","slug":"alibeaj-says-dp-wont-participate-in-presidential-voting-prompts-ballas-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/alibeaj-says-dp-wont-participate-in-presidential-voting-prompts-ballas-reaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibeaj says DP won\u2019t participate in presidential voting, prompts Balla\u2019s reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no sense as to why the Democratic Party should participate in the presidential voting session seeing that it was excluded from the process entirely.<\/p>\n<p>This is what DP\u2019s caucus leader, Enkelejd Alibeaj said during communication with the press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve reached a moment when Albanians should have known who their president should be. Our stance is that tomorrow, there\u2019s no sense for DP to participate in the voting process. It was obvious that Rama has no goal of giving Albanians the president they deserve as prescribed by the Constitution,\u201d \u2013 said Alibeaj.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after this declaration came the reaction of SP\u2019s caucus leader Taulant Balla, through a status posted on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoycotting never benefits anyone; it is simply an insult and disregard for the delegation of voter\u2019s sovereignty,\u201d \u2013 wrote Balla amongst other things.<\/p>\n<p>The Socialist Party\u2019s leadership will be convening today at 17:00 to discuss the presidential nominees set to be voted this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The first 3 rounds of voting for the election of the new head of state failed, after the ruling majority and the opposition didn\u2019t reach an agreement and failed to present any presidential nominees.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth round will be held tomorrow and the Socialist majority will be able to choose the president without the help of the opposition as they already possess the minimum 71 votes needed to elect the president in this round.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-admin\/post-new.php\">New President to be elected this Saturday<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/today\/2022\/05\/30\/socialist-mp-says-the-opposition-lost-its-chance-to-elect-the-new-president\/\">Socialist MP says the opposition missed its chance to elect the new President<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/05\/29\/third-round-of-voting-for-the-new-president-fails\/\">Third round of voting for the new President fails\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no sense as to why the Democratic Party should participate in the presidential voting session seeing that it was excluded from the process entirely. This is what DP\u2019s caucus leader, Enkelejd Alibeaj said during communication with the press. \u201cWe\u2019ve reached a moment when Albanians should have known who their president should be. Our stance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":37508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[947,1353,420,150,151,450,567],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alibeaj says DP won\u2019t participate in presidential voting, prompts Balla\u2019s reaction - 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\/alibeaj-says-dp-wont-participate-in-presidential-voting-prompts-ballas-reaction\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alibeaj says DP won\u2019t participate in presidential voting, prompts Balla\u2019s reaction - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There\u2019s no sense as to why the Democratic Party should participate in the presidential voting session seeing that it was excluded from the process entirely. 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