{"id":78629,"date":"2025-05-15T21:36:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T19:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=78629"},"modified":"2025-05-15T22:27:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:27:03","slug":"opportunity-party-secures-second-mandate-in-tirana-agron-shehaj-reacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/opportunity-party-secures-second-mandate-in-tirana-agron-shehaj-reacts\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOpportunity\u201d Party Secures Second Mandate in Tirana, Agron Shehaj Reacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the \u201cOpportunity\u201d Party has secured its second parliamentary mandate in Tirana, although some diaspora votes remain to be counted.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the development, party leader Agron Shehaj said he would comment further once the result is official, but noted that the second mandate is essentially secured\u2014barring any major surprises.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe votes from Greece have not yet been counted. I don\u2019t believe there will be a major surprise that changes the outcome. I\u2019ll comment on the second mandate once the counting is officially concluded. When we have the final result, we\u2019ll speak,\u201d Shehaj stated.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether he made a mistake by not joining forces with Adriatik Lapaj and Arlind Qori to form a stronger opposition, Shehaj said such a coalition would have compromised the identity of the \u201cOpportunity\u201d Party by turning it into a merger, blurring the individual value of each group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew from the start that the system is challenging for small parties. It would have meant dissolving parties into one, whereas we created a new party to avoid that\u2014otherwise, we wouldn\u2019t be able to measure our own weight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Shehaj added that he would give a full statement after the vote counting is officially completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the \u201cOpportunity\u201d Party has secured its second parliamentary mandate in Tirana, although some diaspora votes remain to be counted. Speaking about the development, party leader Agron Shehaj said he would comment further once the result is official, but noted that the second mandate is essentially secured\u2014barring any major surprises. \u201cThe votes from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":78630,"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>\u201cOpportunity\u201d Party Secures Second Mandate in Tirana, Agron Shehaj Reacts - 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\/opportunity-party-secures-second-mandate-in-tirana-agron-shehaj-reacts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cOpportunity\u201d Party Secures Second Mandate in Tirana, Agron Shehaj Reacts - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It appears that the \u201cOpportunity\u201d Party has secured its second parliamentary mandate in Tirana, although some diaspora votes remain to be counted. 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