While social networks exploded with irony and memes about Mereme Sela's candidacy, the Democratic Party's official decision seems to have "formalized" that public reaction in bureaucratic language.
KOKOE disqualifies Sela with the argument that he does not meet the statutory criteria, emphasizing the lack of a high public and political profile, as well as electoral leadership experience at the national or regional level.
So, what was treated as humor online is translated into a criterion in the document.
In the end, the result is clear: everyone is excluded for "technical" reasons, while Sali Berisha remains the only candidate for president of the Democratic Party in the May 23 elections — in a process called a competition, but which did not have any such moment.
