I don’t know Lapaj’s decision for mandate, the quarrel with Shehaj hurt us

« Initiative Albania becomes » in the May 11 elections, produced only one MP mandate, but for Endri Shabani it is important that 10% of Albanians voted for the new parties, beyond the SP and DP, beyond Rama and Berisha. For him the political classes will soon be changed under this spirit, stressing that he does not fight for a deputy salary, but for the future of the country. Internal conflicts within new parties, failure to join a front and electoral system to disadvantage also affected the end result. Shabani said they worked to the end for a broad front, but they could not succeed, and the Lapaj-Shehaj conflict during the campaign damaged them all.

« We did not succeed for the rotation. I believed we would do it, but it was not possible. Some things have been achieved to oppose the system, even though it was sent to the constitution, but unfortunately this reality we have now. So the division with constituencies and jackets, there is no political and economic justification, but it also deforms representation.

65,000 Albanians were represented for one mandate, and on the other hand many mandates were taken by the Socialists for the same number of votes as us. Some Albanians of the mother, and some of their stepmother. Rama does not represent most of Albania. Today there is less than in 2021. In 35 years we have 2 parties that have come out of the Labor Party. There have been factions like Meta, but only now has a myth broken. The new forces jointly received 10% of voters, who voted beyond Rama and Berisha ”,-said Shabani.

Will Shabani take the mandate of the Initiative MP if Lapaj keeps the promise he made during the campaign, that if they received a mandate he would not go to parliament? « None of us received enough votes to produce a mandate, but we all produced a mandate. It is not an individual mandate, but of the coalition. We are committed to burning closed lists, all deposited, keeping the commitment.

He is an Adriatic commitment and you should ask him to explain. Our commitment is that it belongs to him because he has received more votes than me. If I got one more vote from the Adriatic, I would be in parliament. I have not entered politics, neither I nor the Adriatic and others, for a 3,000 euro salary of Parliament. The point is it we prospect the Albanian youth. The decision is the Adriatic, I do not know the decision it has made. We met constantly, normal. «