Opposition leader Sali Berisha recently attacked the government in a public meeting and press conferences, accusing it of having manipulated voter lists. Specifically, Berisha claims that 350,000 to 400,000 supporters of the Democratic Party have been removed from the rolls. Prime Minister Ilir Meta, during a conference with Minister of Culture and Sports Edi Rama stated, on behalf of Socialist party candidates for the Tirana municipality, that Berisha's accusations are lies.
Significant differences are apparent between the two.
Public meetings held in city squares, led respectively by Democratic Party leader Sali Berisha and Socialist Party leader Fatos Nano, reveal deep individual and political differences between the opposing candidates, who in live media debates tend to display a greater degree of tolerance and mutual understanding. After the collapse of Communism, Albania's am population established the am ria Association, dedicated to achieving the return of their expropriated lands in Greece. In the summer of 1991, then Greek Foreign Minister Karolas Papoulias responded that a bilateral commission should settle these demands. However, in reality, the chance of forming such a commission was slim, since current Greek law provides no legal means of challenging land requisitions by the Greek state. After the Second World War, the official Greek position, still unofficially held today, was that the Muslim population of am ria collaborated with the German occupying forces during the war.