A day after the opposition party officials declared that three elected MPs could be candidates for president, representatives of the Vetëvendosje Movement reacted. They denied the possibility of voting support of party people and said that the candidate must be consensual.
Representatives of the Vetëvendosje Movement, which won the June 7 elections, have said that the same criteria will apply, as before the elections, for the presidential candidate.
The elected deputy, Arbërie Nagavci, who in the last legislature was the head of the parliamentary group of this party, said that the candidate must be non-partisan.
“We have seen several declarations of specific names of candidates who want to be president, or president. However, we expect to have a consensual, non-partisan candidate, who would, I believe, exercise their position competently and responsibly and the unifying role given to them by the Constitution,” she said on Thursday.
Shortly before the end of the constitutional deadline for the election of the president, Vetëvendosja made an offer to PDK and LDK to give it three candidates for president, and promised to vote for one of them. But, according to this party, candidates must be unifying figures, with high civic and national integrity, with proven contribution to professional and social life, and outside the current political scene.
On Wednesday, LDK vice-president Lutfi Haziri said that all the deputies of this party have a vote for him or for the president Lumir Abdixiku. And, he later clarified that Vjosa Osmani remains the LDK’s candidate for president.
Even Ramush Haradinaj, former chairman of the Alliance, has said that he would consider the possibility of running for president, if PDK and LDK would agree on this.
And, the acting president, Albulena Haxhiu, has said that she has no intention of becoming a full-term president.
Haxhiu also stated that the president should be elected by consensus, but, according to her, the new institutions should be constituted beforehand.
“Let’s constitute the assembly, let’s elect the government, and immediately after the constitution of the assembly – the new chairman of the assembly, the new chairman of the assembly, whoever he or she is, will have the constitutional right to mandate the candidate for prime minister of the country”, said Haxhiu.
Likewise, the political analyst, Basri Muja, said that the issue of the president should be addressed after the constitution of the Assembly and the formation of the Government.
“I expect the ruling party – Vetëvendosje Movement to invite the opposition parties to build principles, to build standards of what a president should look like, and I expect the representatives of the parties to understand the importance of the moment and elect a consensual, nonpartisan president who is acceptable to all political blocs,” he said.
The election of the president requires the participation in the vote of at least 80 deputies, which number Vetëvendosja cannot reach without an agreement with at least one of the two main opposition parties, the PDK and the LDK.
