'Blood transfusion' in the PS, only 16 MPs on the safe list. The scheme to divide Meta's votes, innovations and breaking the 'rule'

After the May 11 elections, the Socialist Party will have a reformatted parliamentary group, as only 16 current MPs have been included in the safe list. One of them is Prime Minister Edi Rama himself, who will head the Tirana Region, along with his political leaders and ministers.

The only new name in the capital is the journalism pedagogy of Iris Luarasi.

The socialist "senators", Fatmir Xhafaj, Erion Braçe, Mimi Kodheli and Pandeli Majko, on the open list of 37 candidates will fight with each other to sit in the Parliament seat again. His close associates, 16 of the 17 cabinet ministers, Edi Rama has sought to have in the May 11 team.

13 in the safe zone, while the Minister of Interior, the Minister of Economy and the Minister of Agriculture will also have to compete for a vote with the socialist deputies in Tirana.

To split the PL votes, Manastirliu ran the former number 2 of this party, Endrit Braimllari.

Fier is one of the regions with the greatest transformation in the composition of the lists. Of the 7 remaining deputies, Belinda Balluku has retained only Antoneta Dhima. While she took a Cham deputy, Nusret Avdulla, from the PDIU.

Vlora also comes with a new list, as only 2 MPs survived from this district. In the open race will be Vullnet Sina, who withdrew from the resignation, and Damian Gjiknuri, the author of the new formula for closing the list.

The Shkodra list does not have an important political figure, except for the characters of the moment and political heirs, where former LSI MP Agron Çela lobbied to give a safe place to his daughter Xhenis Çela.

The tradition of a female candidate from Tirana haunts Niko Peleshi in every election, who, despite his wishes, secured a safe seat for the mayor of Tirana, Romina Kuko. Korça also snatched a last-minute ally from Sali Berisha, the head of the Macedonian Party.

In Durrës, Edi Rama broke the rule he had set, by including 3 MPs on the list, also finding a place for the MP from Dibra, Aurora Mara.

Mirela Kumbaro in Gjirokastra also needed the former mayor of Tepelena, Tërmet Peçi, to preserve the 2021 result. Meanwhile, Eduard Shalsi, after securing his only mandate in Kukës, also turned his attention to the Democrats to include former MP Alban Zeneli on the list.

Ervin Demo resigned from the Municipality of Berat to be in Parliament, while he did not include Nasip Naçon and Bardhyl Kollçak, who remain off the lists, in his team.

Elbasan also broke the rule by re-assigning the mandate to MP Evis Kushi, while a seat was also found for Bora Muzhaqin.

To make a list of new deputies, mayors, deputy mayors and directors, the chairman of the Socialist Party excluded 24 socialist candidates from the race from 2021./ Source: A2 CNN