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Opposition increases the dramacity of their rhetoric, Minister of Interior threatened: We will come at your home
28 Shkurt 2019, 14:42ENGLISH
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The political rhetoric of the Albanian opposition has had dramatic tones after the protests that have resulted in clashes, following the decision to abandon the parliament.
Gazmend Bardhi, Democratic Party’s number two – the main opposition political force – has threatened the Minister of Interior, Sandër Lleshaj, that citizens will raid his home.
Lleshaj, a retired general, was the number two of the Armed Forces in Albania and for four years served as Advisor on National Security to Prime Minister Edi Rama.
Last October, General Lleshaj accepted the offer of the head of government to run the Ministry of Interior.
He is not involved in the political structures of the majority but served as an expert for the government.
The opposition’s rhetoric against Lleshaj has risen after the protests of February 15 and that of Tuesday, in which the police did not allow the opposition protestors to enter the two main institutions of the country: the Parliament and the Prime Ministry office.
The Minister of Interior has called on opposition politicians to distance themselves from violence and clashes with police forces.
Democratic Party Secretary General Gazmend Bardhi, referring to the damaging of the governmental headquarter’s door by protesters on February 16, and breaking a scaffold covering the eave of the headquarters, said that the tearing of a curtain was not a big deal.
“It is not violence to tear up a curtain covering the door of the Prime Minister’s Office, because by putting that curtain he himself provokes citizens by saying that they are covering the shelters of crime,” Gazmend Bardhi declared.
But the internationals, almost in unison, considered the 16 February incidents as “violence against institutions”.
This was done with their statements by the embassies of US, EU, OSCE, UK, but also in high levels of Washington and Brussels.
Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, Mathew Palmer, has conducted telephone conversations with Albanian opposition leaders, Lulzim Basha and Monika Kryemadhi, in which he has asked them to give up violence.
The same thing was done in a joint conference at the EU Headquarters in Brussels, High Representative for European Union Foreign Policy, Federica Mogherini and Enlargement Commissioner, Johannes Hahn.
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