Dash Shehi in the race for MP: Even if I don't win, it still won't be a joke, run like the men! I don't want benefits

2025-03-31 22:40:16 / POLITIKË ALFA PRESS

Dash Shehi in the race for MP: Even if I don't win, it still won't be

Dashamir Shehi is running in the "Right 1912" coalition to receive another mandate as a member of parliament. 

Invited to the show "The Unexposed" on MCN TV, Shehi said that Rama should leave power after 12 years because he has damaged Albania. 

He stated that he is running on an open list, and in case of loss, he will again leave with honor. 

Excerpts from the conversation: 

Ylli Rakipi: Why did you leave the Democratic Party, because there could have been a safe place on the list? 

Dashamir Shehi: Since the 2021 elections were lost, I have thought that the opposition should take a different trajectory. I hoped that something would be produced from the great chaos, but it produced what we have today. These elections need to produce something new, a new political trajectory, new characters. This work, this kind of sacrifice is worth it. With this other part, they have separated us from important things, the approach to the electoral law, the constitutional and political system, they made a cheap deal with the SP to secure themselves in the closed lists and betrayed the opposition issue, which needed another list, maximizing the opposition vote. Like all the factors, they chose the path that whoever is with me, we put in the small tent. It is no longer worth dealing with that part, let's make our own way, it is mountainous but it is worth it. I say we will succeed. Is there hope for the opposition? Great hope.
The day has come that this one has gone too far for 12 years. I think that only these alternative forces can get the vote that neither Berisha nor Rama gets. This is the formula, I see no other path for the opposition bloc to win. After the elections, we will renegotiate the positions, the people will judge how much they value one and how much they value the other.
Even if I am far away, I will not win, I did not become a crybaby, but when they leave, they leave like men, with your mind and your contribution. Whoever does not understand, will hardly understand.

Ylli Rakipi: Let me ask you a very open question. You are a person who even takes this car home, to the palace from Enver's time, where you stayed... You have been in Parliament all this time, why are you running again, aren't you tired of dealing with these people?

Dashamir Shehi : I am passionate about this job. If I had it for profit, I would stay in this neighborhood. I am passionate about it and in a way it became our profession. I have said somewhere, it is a bit excessive, that at this age after having invested 35 years there, I am afraid that I do not know how to do anything else. But I think that for better or worse, I have built a kind of career in this job, it is worth contributing and tiring myself once again. I think it is worth it and especially this time it is worth it. We are facing a man who after having been in power for 12 years, will stay again, I set a deadline for 2030. To take the evil of Putin and these others in the world, in Belarus. We are facing this and we must raise our hands against this.
Here too (Berisha) we are in a situation of political grotesqueness, he claims for the third time, as if you are right and true, and this is also excessive. That's why I say it's worth going into the sea on foot, but that part of the Albanians, 20-30%, who judge outside the party's fan base, with normal reasons, can vote and have some alternatives. If you don't like Dashi, let those young people vote. Albanians don't have to cry anymore. I know that a part of the votes with this law will be lost, but the signal will remain. There will be 200-300 thousand votes for the opposition groups, 15 deputies can be produced. The political signal that half of the opposition has voted for other groups, this will remain. I have a hope that with this formula, we will also torment Edi Rama, whose time has come to defeat him.