SP Secretary General Blendi Klosi discussed on Now MP Marjana Koçeku and her departure from the SP, emphasizing that the party’s opening to new figures has brought new energy and representation on the one hand.
Blendi Klosi said that the SP’s strategy in the last elections was to promote as many new candidates as possible, with the aim of bringing a new spirit to the Assembly.
“We are 83 deputies of the Socialist Party and consciously, in the last electoral race, we made that formula so that in the race in the closed area, that is, in the safe area, there would be very young people, only the political leaders would be in the closed area. And all those who had a mandate, would be in the open area to collect votes for the Socialist Party.
This naturally meant that we had a very new influx into the Albanian parliament, that we had new deputies who came to bring that new spirit. So, what are the protesters asking for today? I had a close relationship with Mrs. Mariana and I appreciated her for the sense of what she represented. Our policy of developing remote areas came from this, it came from our policy to develop these, to bring them closer and to give them symbols of people who come from work, from an agrotourism that she had built with her family. So, educated. But when you open up so much and when you seek to accept so many young people, it undoubtedly has its costs. So, opening up undoubtedly has consequences”, said Klosi.
Klosi also opposed demands to repeal the law on protected areas, arguing that this law guarantees the protection of a significant part of the country’s territory and constitutes a key element for the sustainable development of tourism.
“To say that their policy says ‘the law on protected areas is rejected’ is completely outside of what you are discussing. So, obviously they may not have the necessary expertise, but the law on protected areas protects, there is special protection for 25% of the territory of Albania. So, it is not just about Narta, Vjosa, Zvërnec, the Alps,” he added.
Focusing on the issue of Zvërnec, according to Klos, the importance of such investments for the economic and tourist development of the country has already been understood.
“Since Zvërnec has come out at all, because apparently Zvërnec was the game, there is no one left to come out against Zvërnec. Even those who formulate it can no longer formulate that they are against such an investment in Albania, because I really believe that they understood that it was the moment, they took advantage of the moment, but they cannot maintain the thesis of rejecting Zvërnec. So, I am saying, to say that the law on protected areas should be repealed, to remove the protection of a natural asset that we have, because Albania perhaps has this as one of its greatest values in tourism,” he said.