Invited by journalist Blendi Fevziu in Opinion, President-Elect Ilir Meta denied that it was intention to become President. Meta was elected in the fourth round of the presidential elections last Friday, after three rounds passed without any candidate.
The deal with the PS was that the PS and LSI would choose the President with consensus and this implied that the president would come from us. We have been open to the LSI taken this post, but we haven’t agreed with the variant that was implemented, because the aim was that Ilir Meta would lead the LSI during the election campaign.
Meta had proposed Prime Minister Rama to elect a president from the ranks of the opposition, but Rama had refused this proposal. He also admitted that the PS put pressure on him after three rounds had passed without candidate:
If we wouldn’t have done this election on Friday, the PS would have put the president it wanted, or also the remaining rounds would have been used and the situation in the country would have become more difficult. […] Under these circumstances I accepted to become president, it was for the stability of the coming 5 years.
In spite of the passing of every single legal deadline, Meta continues to insist that the opposition should take part in the elections:
Of course the opposition has to enter the elections, but there also needs to be a struggle to have elections with standards.
