After the drastic loss suffered in the elections of May 14, Sali Berisha in a statement to the media does not accept the defeat, while saying that Edi Rama manipulated the elections and massively bought the vote.
"The 2023 election farce as the ugliest electoral farce in Albania and Europe is getting worse every day. In this case, I appreciate the OSCE-ODHIR report of the local regional authorities and the statement of the representative of the European Parliament who proved that the Albanian electors voted under pressure and not free.
This is the key word of these elections, where with all kinds of pressure Edi Rama changed the will of the Albanians in an unconstitutional, illegal way, changed the voting result.
The preliminary report, although it is preliminary and not final, puts its finger on the major problems of these elections, starting with the electoral state machinery, as a destructive monster of the electoral process, as an act that overturns the greatest inequality in the electoral process, it stops at all the anti-legal forms of interference in the will of the Albanians by the government, underlines the massive vote buying, as well as other pressures of the mafia administration, more present than ever in the voting centers and the voting process.
Attempts to extract any half-phrase from the most honorable representatives of the prestigious institutions in the EU, OSB-ODHIR and the European Parliament, as you saw for yourself, they refused to utter any quality that was asked of them by Rama's media to wave it as a flag of these elections are the most manipulated, the most ruined ever in the history of Albania", said Berisha.