The ongoing spat has diverted attention away from the rivalry between the ruling Socialists, which started their third term in office this month, and the opposition Democrats, which recently returned to Parliament after a lengthy boycott.īasha decided to exclude Berisha from the Democrats’ parliamentary group after the latter was named by the US State Department as persona non grata due to his involvement in “significant corruption” in May.
A very public war of words is raging between the current and former leaders of Albania’s main opposition party, the centre-right Democratic Party.Īfter current Democratic Party leader Lulzim Basha excluded former party leader Sali Berisha, who has served as Albania’s president and prime minister, from the party’s parliamentary group, Berisha embarked on a tour of the country to drum up support for his cause among party activists.
