The PSD leadership met urgently yesterday, following the PS attacks, and issued a press statement implying its departure from the coalition
Yesterday, PSD representatives on the Vlora Municipal Council did not attend the ceremony marking socialist Niko Veizi’s assumption of office
The PSD leadership met urgently yesterday, following the PS attacks, and issued a press statement implying its departure from the coalition
Rama, PS secretary: We will re-educate Gjinushi
Yesterday, PSD representatives on the Vlora Municipal Council did not attend the ceremony marking socialist Niko Veizi’s assumption of office
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The PSD-PS duet puts the coalition at risk
The PSD’s showdown with the PS puts the coalition at risk
By Edi Lesi
What is happening between the PS and PSD after the local elections resembles a tedious court hearing about dividing property between husband and wife after a divorce, except that this time it is about dividing the spoils of war after the victory of 1 October. The husband, in this case the PS, is displaying unrestrained greed, seeking to leave the wife, the PSD, with as little power as possible. Although, after the elections, it has no more than two members on the municipal councils in the country’s municipalities, the PSD is ready to ally even with the lowliest villager if the socialists do not treat it with the indulgence to which it has grown accustomed over the past three years. There is not the slightest doubt that the PSD, with its two votes in hand, will not come to the PS’s aid; on the contrary, it is ready to undermine it whenever an absolute majority in the municipal councils is needed to make important decisions. In such a situation, the PS’s haste to leave as little power as possible to this so-called ally, which has been living off the socialists’ oxygen for three years, seemed understandable. On the other hand, the PSD’s demand for a little tolerance from the PS in some runoff contests in the second round of elections was not entirely unfounded, since well before 1 October it had expressed its political willingness to remain allied with the “pinks” and to support them in many areas, albeit modestly.
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