{"id":78277,"date":"2025-05-03T21:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T19:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=78277"},"modified":"2025-05-03T22:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T20:10:07","slug":"rama-from-saranda-new-parties-are-the-second-cycle-of-the-late-lsi-dont-water-the-weeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/rama-from-saranda-new-parties-are-the-second-cycle-of-the-late-lsi-dont-water-the-weeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Rama from Saranda: New parties are the second cycle of the late LSI\u2014don\u2019t water the weeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Edi Rama was in Saranda this Sunday for the closing campaign rally, where he took aim at small and newly formed parties, calling them \u201cthe second cycle of the bad seed of the late LSI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re like little birds flying around saying, \u2018we\u2019re new.\u2019 The only thing new about them is the age of their leaders. Small parties serve small interests\u2014the smaller the party, the smaller the interests of those who sell themselves as representatives of big causes. Don\u2019t water the weeds, because they\u2019ll grow. Imagine, without even being in Parliament, they\u2019re already calling for early elections\u2014for the same reasons the late LSI was created: shady deals and personal interests,\u201d Rama said.<\/p>\n<p>He called on citizens to support the Socialist Party in the May 11 elections, arguing that only the SP has consistently defended the national interest.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the party\u2019s history, he added: \u201cThe Socialist Party may have made mistakes in the past 35 years, but there is not a single moment when it betrayed the national interest. Not one. Zero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rama emphasized that the May 11 elections are more than just a political process, describing them as the \u201cfulfillment of a historic mission\u201d for Albania\u2019s integration into the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Edi Rama was in Saranda this Sunday for the closing campaign rally, where he took aim at small and newly formed parties, calling them \u201cthe second cycle of the bad seed of the late LSI.\u201d \u201cThey\u2019re like little birds flying around saying, \u2018we\u2019re new.\u2019 The only thing new about them is the age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":78278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,1803],"tags":[243,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rama from Saranda: New parties are the second cycle of the late LSI\u2014don\u2019t water the weeds - 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