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The "Renewal" Assembly...not to let go of the past!
2026-05-30 19:11:27 / EDITORIAL
Today, at the National Assembly of the Democratic Party, a process that at first glance seemed like the re-election of Sali Berisha, but which in reality confirmed a much deeper phenomenon, successfully concluded: The triumph of nostalgia for the past over the future, the embrace of power and the rejection of oppositionism.
As I looked around the Assembly hall, I understood why Berisha had called it the “Assembly of Renewal.” Without any equivocation, we are not even close to the orbit of a process of renewal of ideas, elites, or political vision.
On the contrary, it was the renewal of a status quo that has been fueled for years by the privileges of the opposition and its interaction with the majority, and not by the ambition to change the country's reality.
Whether we like it or not, the Democratic Party has now transformed into a genuine economic and social elite. Not an elite in the intellectual or moral sense of the word, but an elite in the sense of privilege.
MPs and leaders dressed in chic tailor-made suits, luxury Mercedes and Range Rover cars of the newest and most expensive models, bodyguards, luxury hotels, pompous events, television studios, international summits and a lifestyle that resembles much more the establishment they claim to fight than the opposition they claim to represent.
After thirteen years of opposition, it is becoming increasingly difficult to believe the narrative of a party oppressed by the “narco-regime” or of an opposition persecuted by the government. On the contrary. What appeared in the hall today was the image of a political structure that has learned to live well in opposition; a structure that has built privileges, status, influence and well-being precisely thanks to its role as the country's official opposition.
The faces of the participants did not show the agony of a force seeking to overthrow the government. They showed the happiness and pride of people who have found their place in the system. Rich and powerful people.
Therefore, the applause for Berisha was not just a vote for a leader. It was a vote for the continuity of a world where each of them maintains the status, privileges, and importance that this political structure gives them.
In this sense, Berisha is no longer simply a party leader. He is the symbol that connects a group of people to the most important period of their political life. For some, it is the memory of the time when they were at the helm of power. For others, it is the guarantee of the privileges they continue to enjoy today. For most, it is the certainty that nothing will change.
And that's exactly where the Democratic Party's fundamental problem lies. It's no longer voting for the future. It's voting not to let go of the past.
The DP is behaving like an "elite" that is fighting to maintain total control of the opposition, even the monopoly of oppositionism. To this end, it is spending every energy to manage the dissatisfaction with the Rama government and, as an administrator of the dissatisfaction, to negotiate at the power table with the government.
How does she do this? By screaming more than anyone against Edi Rama, to magnetize every opposition eye and ear around her. But in the end, her opposition to Rama ends here and is followed by very economically fruitful collaborations for her. A status quo with rich and satisfied people in the opposition.
Berisha's status quo gains privileges by being the country's official opposition. It is the one that obtains construction permits for towers and resorts, licenses for hydroelectric power plants, fuel, mines, markets, and much more.
He gains the privilege by living a glamorous life with trips to European capitals, to summits where he inflates his ego for the prestigious life he leads, while traveling in luxury cars and staying in super expensive and elegant hotels.
This continues in Tirana, where the most expensive hotels are Berisha's workplaces, as he carries out his activities in their halls; activities that keep him in the "parliament" or power elite, but without any product for the country. Simply a millionaire who has a very nice workplace, which gives him material pleasure and feeds his ego.
But the opposition also gives him some immunity from justice.
Voting power gives it influence over laws that require broad consensus, and this gives it great access to the economy: laws that affect building permits, concessions, road tenders, and the instrument of silence or accusation against abuses of them; businesses that seek protection from opposition attacks and pay for it.
It is also given the power to appoint people to the Assembly and to the country's institutions.
The political status of the opposition leader brings social privilege, a clientelistic network in the oligarchy, media, universities, NGOs, and much more.
A shadow government with the privileges of government, but without its costs.
To the calls of MEPs like Peter Beyer's case to elect a new leader, of the British ambassador that Berisha's Non Grata is a legal process and not a political one, the members of the DP fall into the abyss of deafness, because these calls are economically harmful to them. Jorida Tabaku, Gazmend Bardhi, Tomor Alizoti, Ilir Alihmemet, etc... any of those applauding Berisha today, Berisha's stay at the head of the DP is a very rich contract in monetary terms for them, and very prestigious for their egos.
A "beautiful" life, which after the National Assembly will end with expensive fish and wine in the fashionable restaurants of Tirana, a life of some people who without Berisha have no professional and political life at all!
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