Former Ambassador Mal Berisha, now a member of the National Council of the Democratic Party after April 30, has told for the first time to journalist Merita Haklaj on A2 about what US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Palmer said on April 30, 2019- ës.
He indicated that he belonged to DASH at the end of April 2019 and the American official told him about the conversation he had with Basha regarding the burning of mandates.
"I am a witness of a personal act but not without Basha's knowledge. I entered the State Department on April 30, 2019 and faced Philip Reeker, Matthew Palmer, Bob Pfeiffer and Gathe West. And I presented a powr point to them in a letter and I told them in English that I was crying for my country, Albania, the only country without a Constitutional Court, when I went to the fifth point they said stop; we know it all and i told them there is no chance these will happen in a pro american country and you let it.
And they told me to ask Palmer what conversation he had with Basha the day before he left parliament that we told him that you were leaving the institutions, we do not support you and Basha told him to stay calm, it will not happen. But the next day he left parliament. It is on April 30, 2019 at DASH at 5 and 6 in the afternoon and I was shocked but I did not show a fighter to come out and say it publicly ".
Mal Berisha denies being Sali Berisha after the actions and decisions of Lulzim Basha in the Democratic Party.
"I can state publicly, I am close to Berisha, I stayed close to him and I knew that as a child I had him as a doctor, student, politician, when he failed I did not separate from him. I had this conversation with Berisha and I asked him and he told me that; he is the mayor, he has the responsibility, he has the party, I do not have it, I just suggest but I do not decide, therefore the stigma that they have imposed on Berisha, I am a witness and I have no reason to give them cosmetics ".
According to him, the PD in the phase that was recently "was in the opportunistic phase, today it is turning into an opposition party, the support from the west is not evident, but if we have the support of the people we will be where we need to be", while assessing Sali Berisha's political transformation .