LIBRA party leader Ben Blushi, who is also the main candidate for the party in Tirana, talked yesterday evening with a panel of journalists in TV program Opinion. Blushi, a former PS deputy who broke away from the party to form his own, was skeptical about Prime Minister Edi Rama’s chances during the upcoming elections:
The electoral numbers go against Edi Rama as prime minister and we have to see what is going to happen. […] In this election everyone will go who want to bring down Rama as prime minister.
Blushi also predicted that the PS will be “unable to win more than the 64 mandates” they won during the last elections, being a bit more generous than former LSI leader Ilir Meta, who claimed that the PS would not win more than 53 mandates.
Referring to the deal negotiated between the PD and PS, Blushi stated that “the PD has abandoned the cause for free elections. It exchanged it with the prisons and cadasters to distribute the land patents of Edi Rama.”
He was positive about the chances for his own party, LIBRA, which – like the LSI – will be “the surprise of the these elections.”
Asked whether he would join in a coalition with Rama, he said that this would only happen with him as “Prime Minister.”
In terms of policy, Blushi vowed that he would not avoid “terror” to combat the drug cultivation problem in Albania:
I only need 100 days to make cannabis disappear from Albania, by any means, even with terror. […]
We will not kill people, but in the sense that the will intervene with every aggressive means to erase cannabis from Albania. It is destroying the economy of Albania, as people are not interested to work because they go and plant fields with cannabis.
