He received 17,500 votes on the open list of the Democratic Party for the Tirana district, but was again left out of parliament. In the studio of Dita Jonë on A2 CNN, doctor Ilir Alimehmeti blamed the electoral system for producing an internal competition among each other, a weak parliament with increasingly weaker voices. According to him, this system should be abolished and the majoritarian system restored.
"The biggest problem that the system had was that the competition should not be between each other but with the opponent, this electoral system alone is not in place to have a competition of ideas, it was transformed into an internal competition. A system that must be deleted, produces a weak parliament because it distances the parliamentarian from the citizen. My mentality, I am for majoritarianism, what we had 20 years ago was a competition. This is not called a competition. Otherwise, we would have a national proportional system. We will have increasingly weaker voices in parliament. We come to this point where the parliament rejects constitutional decisions. The problem is that where we are going, the people give us the answer that after election, the voters are fewer and fewer. The connection between the MP and them is no longer MP, they ask who is the MP of the area. They want the majoritarian. Democracy is representation for the people. We need to talk seriously about systems that work for the people, not for the heads of politics. The two main political forces, the PD-SP, have agreed and like everything, it has an effect in reverse. But in "2021 Rama made unilateral changes."
According to Alimehmet, this has also had the effect of alienating people not only from politics, but also from the country. He emphasizes that the nation is aging because politics does not think about the people, but about the policymakers and leaders.
The reality is that people are increasingly moving away not only from politics but also physically, birth rates have fallen, old age is increasing. A nation that ages and the youth leave, the nation fades away. If we do not see that these types of behaviors that our children will only see on WhatsApp and our grandchildren will grow up on the streets of Europe and we will grow old alone. Do you know that the Albanian parliament does not have an agenda for more than 3 weeks, while the European one has for 6 months. Here we have a major problem. We do not have politics for the people but for the policymakers and leaders.
Asked if the DP's safe list will leave to make way for him, Alimehmeti replied on A2 CNN that he is not asking for mandates, he is only asking for them from the people.
"The law is the law, even though I am against this law and I have opposed it since last summer and it is unfavorable for the opposition, it must be implemented. The open list was the only option and I am only asking people for the mandate. I am not there to beg for mandates from the closed list, so that we are clear. But if one of them does it, the law requires the list to be removed, the law must be implemented even when you do not like it. I only ask people for support, I believe in democracy from below."
Regarding Berisha's responsibilities and the DP leadership in these elections, Alimehmeti says the National Council will decide the fate of the party, while admitting that he has a professional relationship with the democratic leader.
"The process is not over yet, there will be a very careful electoral and political analysis, I do it with my staff in the small sphere. It is up to the leadership and the president of the DP to do the total analysis, decisions are made according to the forum. It will take its time. The relevant bodies of the DP will express themselves. We will discuss it on the day of the national council. We have a very professional relationship."
For those candidates who were on the safe list of the DP and who did not campaign, Alimehmeti responded on A2 CNN: "We knew that for some it was like a gift job, for some it was work. I do not come from a world where I am given gifts. For me, this is completely normal because I have achieved this through work. Work bears fruit, gifts come before, but it is not known what bears fruit. Anyone who works looks at themselves in the mirror in the morning and says, am I doing my best? Yes."
Asked if he would run for mayor of Tirana in the event of early elections, Ilir Alimehmeti said: "I have seen democracy from the bottom up, the people are the ones who decide. They showed it for parliament, we will have mechanisms for this too. I am a team player. In this case, it is not team time. It is not the terrain when I ran. We scored goals in Durrës and Fier."
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