The chairman of the National Council of the Democratic Party (DP), Bujar Nishani has assailed DP Chair Lulzim Basha, following the internal elections for chairman of the Democratic Party. 

Nishani initially focused on the members' campaign for the election of the mayor, which he says was unacceptable. He also draws attention to the protests organized by DP leader Lulzim Basha against Prime Minister Rama. 

Nishani says that during the meetings he met hundreds of members, activists and supporters of the Democratic Party who has been in courts for one year just because they had participated in the protests, while adding that it was the leader Democrat Basha, the one who called them to protest and that he is the same one who has already betrayed them. 

"During the days of the campaign for the election of the Chairman of the DP, in meetings in different cities, among others, I encountered an unacceptable situation for many members, activists and supporters of the Democratic Party. Hundreds of them all over Albania wandered for 1 (one) year through the doors of the prosecution and courts as defendants for the sole reason that they had participated in opposition protests against the bandit regime of Edi Rama. 

But they were already left alone, at the mercy of fate to face the injustice controlled by the Government. The right to protest is the most fundamental right of free people. A right guaranteed and protected by the Constitution in Albania. Lulëzim Basha called the Democrats to protest and they responded with dignity and sacrifice! But today those democrats are abandoned, they are betrayed", writes Nishani.