A former Albanian ambassador to the United States says that the country’s next elections will be more as a runoff between the policies of President Trump and George and Alex Soros, since opposition parties call corruption by the ruling socialists.
“Albania is now an effective one -party system that pretends to hold elections,” Agim Nesho, former Albanian ambassador to the United States and the United Nations, told Fox News Digital. Nesho said May’s choice “is a clash between ‘Trump-iS’ and ‘Soros-Ros’, with the letter fighting to maintain its control over corruption and the state in Albania.”
Amid accusations of corruption and the recent trial of the main Albanian political candidates, some critics express concern about the integrity of the next elections for the Parliament of 140 members of the country, now scheduled for May 11.
Nesho said that the country’s ruling socialists “led by Prime Minister Edi Rama, is antidemocratic and deeply rooted … For about 12 years, he has a bone supported by rich leftist donors such as Alex Soros, Rama is like the close friend, and for projects like Fietty [Foundations] Judicial reform, which Rama co -opted and twisted to attack the conservative and right opposition. “He said that the prime minister” also has a powerful narco-state that spreads fear and exercises controls on the elections. “
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The supporters of the Albanian opposition have a sign that shows President Donald Trump and the Albanian opposition leader, Sali Berisha, an anti -government protest in Tirana on February 8, 2025. (Adnan Beci/AFP through Getty Images)
The former campaign manager of President Trump, Chris Lacivita, joined the Sali Berisha campaign, the leader of the Democratic Party of Albania’s right in February, Conformity with Polico. Lacivita told the publication that Berisha would be “a true friend of the United States and … will work successfully with President Trump and the United States.” He called Rama a “puppet or George Soros.”
Berisha, former president and prime minister of Albania, told Fox News Digital that the Rama government “prohibited my name and the name of the party on the voting list” Duration of May 2023 The elections. “When they failed with thesis measures,” he said they go further.
Parliament stripped the legal immunity of Berisha in December 2023 and placed it in the trial of the house under the accusation that he had used the position to help his son -in -law to acquire the private country. Berisha says that “the official documents demonstrated” the land belonged to the grandfather of his son -in -law, and had been confiscated by the old communist regime.
Last November Berisha was released from the trial of the house. He was formally accused of corruption in September, said Associated Press.
Berisha spokesman, Alfred Lelo, told Fox News Digital that Berisha is now waiting for the trial.
In addition to Berisha, the leader of the Freedom Party of the centrist and former president of Albania, Ilir Meta, was arrested for corruption charges in October 2024 in what a source told Fox News Digital was a “weapon of judicial and police agenens.” Once a branch ally, a goal has frequently noticed the growing corruption and authoritarianism of the Rama government.
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The Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama speaks during a meeting of the Security Council on Ukraine, on September 20, 2023, at the United Nations headquarters. (Photo AP/CRAIG RUTTLE)
The foundations of the Open Society of George Soros (OSF) have invested more than $ 131 million in Albania between 1992 and 2020, effectively “supporting the rise of Mr. Rama to power”, the European Center for Law and Justice reported that allegations allegations that USAID spent in the judicial reform in Albania between 2000 and 2015, explaining that the opposition of the branch is to receive control of the government of the realization of the realization of the company.
OSF offices in Albania and the United States did not respond to numerous Fox News Digital consultations about the accusations placed by their opponents against him.
According to a OSF website, the group has “allocated $ 600,000 to support the process to review the Albania judicial system” in 2015 as part of Albania’s preparations to join the European Union. OSF states that “money was used to finance a panel of experts from 20 people, conduct public dissemination and opinion surveys, establish a dedicated website and organize conferences.”
The protesters meet in front of the office of Prime Minister Edi Rama in Tirana, Albania, demanding their resignation on February 11, 2025. (Olsi Shehu/Anadolu through Getty Images)
Newsnation reported that Alex Soros from Travels to Tirana and calls him his “second home.” In July 2021, Soros published a selfie with a branch on Instagram, identifying prime minister as his “good friend.”
Berisha says that Hey requested eight years ago for the United States Congress and the European Parliament “to prohibit [George] Soros “political activity in Europe because it is an enemy of democracy.”
In the December speech, Berisha said it would be the OSF of Albania, calling the group a “real national threat,” according to Euronews Albania. Berisha said that the poor management of the Rama Government of resources and the failure to mitigate poverty had forced the emigration of 45% of the Albanians.
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The opposition leader, Sali Berisha, leaves Parliament in Tirana, Albania, on December 21, 2023. (Photo AP/Armando Bababi)
Another impediment to Berisha’s career are the sanctions that former Secretary of State Antony Shine announced against Berisha, his wife, and his children in May 2021. Blink said that Berisha had been “involved in corrupt acts, in the procression of the publication of the publication of the publication of the publication, the publication of the publication of the publication. Publication of the publication, publication of the publication of the publication, publication of the publication of the publication of Use of their power for their own benefit and to enrich their political allies and their relatives at the expense of the confidence of the Albanian public in their government institutes and public officials. “
Berisha said the sanctions against him were “completely based on the corrupt lobbying” by George Soros and Rama. Hey also said that the members of the Biden Administration “became [the] Embassy of the United States in Tirana in a large prosecutor’s office, “urging supporters, journalists and businessmen to stop supporting Berisha and his party, and that the State Department” asked other countries to sanction and isolated me. “
Berisha said the sanctions have accumulated their campaign. “If the course hurts, because I cannot meet with Albanian Americans, who are so numerous, and in this election, for the first time, they have the right to vote for the party and the candidate they prefer in their country of origin.”
The then president of Albania, Ilir Meta has an American flag while offering a duration of discourse, a demonstration in Tirana, on March 2, 2020. (Gent Shkullaku/AFP through Getty Images)
A state department spokesman said he had no comments on Berisha’s claims that American entities became supporters against him. The State Department did not answer Fox News Digital questions about whether the sanctions against Berisha should be confirmed, or if they prevent free and fair elections in Albania.
A spokesman for former President Joe Biden did not answer the questions about whether the administration had a role in converting supporters against Berisha.
Nesho said the sanctions “lack … evidence and had been rejected by Albanian public opinion. It seems a political movement, driven by the great branches of Rama as Alex Soros, who benefit both the commercial and the influence of keeping Raming Rama.” Nesho asked the Trump administration to “raise this prohibition immediately. It is moving anti -American feelings and collides with the values of democracy and justice,” he added.
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Nesho said that “the last three elections were unfair, full of intimidation and robbery. On May 11, 2025, the elections should not be just a false show, it must be really free and fair. This is for this this for this this for this this is for this this for this this for this this and
Fox News Digital also contacted Prime Minister Albanés Rama, the OSF, a member of the Albania Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Albanian Embassy in Washington, DC, to make comments of corruption and OSF Electiones.
