TIRANA – The process of the selection of the candidates for deputies of the Democratic Party (DP) will be in the hands of some veterans of this opposition political force who have recently returned to its leadership.
Former president Bujar Nishani, former ministers Besnik Mustafaj and Genc Ruli, and former MP Mark Marku make up the backbone of the Commission for the Evaluation of Candidates for deputies who will be proposed by the party membership.
The five-member Commission includes the lecturer, Enriketa Papa, and will be chaired by Nishani who is Chairman of the DP National Council. Besides being president, he has been minister and deputy of DP for many mandates.
Besides the Commission, a secretariat has been set up consisting of Sahit Dollapi, Organizational Secretary, and Ervin Minarolli, Secretary of Human Resources.
The Evaluation Commission is tasked to select among 2,000 candidates proposed for deputies by the DP rank and file. As DP said on Monday, this body will evaluate each candidate, whether or not they meet the criteria set out in detail in the instruction for the functioning of the process.
“The contingent of the persons having influence, support, skills in various fields, who will be picked up by the Commission, will, afterwards, be voted by the DP membership,” said the DP Headquarters.
The DP has been hit by a large abandonment of its leading ranks by a significant number of well-known senior party officials, which has created a split in this political force and as the recent developments show there seems efforts to bring them back, a move which has not been welcomed by many influential figures some of whom laid DP’s foundations. /argumentum.al
