Category Archives: International

The German federal parliament (Bundestag) authorized the government on Thursday, 26 September, to assent to the opening of accession negotiations with Albania in the European Council meeting scheduled for mid October 2019 (here).   The adopted motion, which was proposed ...

  Rama’s parliamentary majority has ratified this month two extreme cases of unlawful and corrupt PPP road contracts worth as much as 370 million Euro, disregarding strong disapproval from President, State Supreme Audit and opposition parties (here and here).   ...

  What is “File 184” ? The Democratic Party of Albania filed a criminal complaint to the Albanian Prosecution relating to the partial local elections held in Dibër on 11th September 2016. The filing aimed at vote-buying and offenses such ...

Edi Rama has been silent for several days trying to rescue his candidate for the city of Vora, Agim Kajmaku, through various machinations and man-oeuvres. He is doing so in order to avoid to answer on the Greek justice file ...

Today, Albanians massively rejected the masquerade of the single-party voting of Edi Rama. 85% of registered voters refused the unlawful single party voting.   Edi Rama was rejected also by the Socialists today, as they voted less compared to 2015 ...

June 30th / end-day (updated).  Numerous irregularities were recorded throughout the voting process until mid-day on June 30th. The Democratic Party of Albania, while considering this process as unlawful and undemocratic, highlights the following concerns as voters turn out is ...

Submitted by The Democratic Party of Albania   Introduction June 30thlocal pre-voting process has been taking place in a very tense political and constitutional crisis. The December 2018 corruption scandals released by Voice of America[1] and in particular the revelations ...

My fellow citizens! No elections will take place tomorrow in Albania. Elections are the mechanism how people decide on the governance they want, but tomorrow people have no choice at all. Elections express people’s free will. But tomorrow there will ...

Dear fellow citizens,   It is a blurry, disturbing and confusing political period for Albanian citizens, so I want to share with you some truths and thoughts.   I want to say two certainties from the beginning:   – There ...

  Since his coming into power on 2013, PM Rama government has been involved in numerous high-level scandals, relating in particular to drug trafficking and vote buying, some of which are reminded below. In all of these occasions, Rama, either ...