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Sali Berisha accepts alliance with 'Ndrangheta to take control of DP, when he launched Foltoret
2026-04-02 12:52:15 / EDITORIAL
Recent events at the headquarters of the Democratic Party of Albania are bringing to light a stark and unpleasant reality about the way Sali Berisha waged his battle to take control of the party: A battle that, according to developments and accusations emerging from within the DP itself, was supported by figures linked to the underworld.
Yesterday, some of the people who once stood by Berisha at the most critical moments, when he was declared “Non Grata” by the US and started the clash with Lulzim Basha, who demanded that the DP remain on the side of its natural allies, appeared at the blue headquarters. These were the same individuals who followed him at every step, even in the most extreme acts, such as the attempt to take the DP headquarters by force — an unprecedented event comparable to a coup d’état.
Those whom he used yesterday to “execute” the democrats who elected the US and not Berisha, he is today excluding, showing what his sole purpose has been from the beginning.
But today, history has made a karma, an ironic turn. Those who were Berisha's "soldiers" yesterday, are today his outcasts. Figures like Dritan Burgija and Arlind Boshku came out publicly and accused Berisha of violating the statute, lack of transparency and arbitrary decision-making. They demand a confrontation with Berisha, but were faced with silence and closed doors of the headquarters that they tried to occupy by force at Berisha's expense, 4 years ago. Today, Berisha no longer needs the old soldiers with whom he sought to take over the party with a stick, because he has replaced them with spineless ones who, for a chair, kneel 24 hours a day.
In this climate of discord, another even more serious element comes to the fore: The very people who were at the forefront of supporting Berisha are being exposed by him as problematic figures. The case of Lavdosh Serani is the most significant. The one who has been active in the DP structures and "Berisha's soldier for 35 years" as he himself declared, the one who has opened the campaign to regain Berisha's DP in Durres by standing by his side in difficult personal moments, according to reports published by the RD newspaper itself, which acts on the orders of Sali Berisha — it turns out that this person has connections to the 'Ndrangheta, one of the most dangerous criminal organizations in Europe, involved in international drug trafficking and money laundering!
This situation created by Berisha himself today raises a strong public accusation: Was the support of individuals with a criminal past used to win an internal political battle? And if so, was this the price that was paid to overthrow Basha and take control of the DP? Berisha is today non grata by Great Britain, precisely for his links to organized crime. And for this fact there is also final certification from British justice institutions, as Berisha himself opened a trial there.
The greatest irony lies in the fact that today, when Berisha's own structure is affected, it is highlighting these figures, which it has used for years, by publicly denouncing them today. So, those who yesterday were soldiers in the "war" against Lulzim Basha, today appear as dark evidence of that battle.
Meanwhile, critical voices within the DP are growing. Even long-time supporters of Berisha are distancing themselves, accusing the leadership of authoritarian behavior and of turning the party into a closed structure, where opposition is punished with expulsion, a model similar to that of Enver Hoxha.
What is emerging is a disturbing picture: A divided party, a leadership that has used organized crime and the ruling party in internal political struggle to seize control of the party by overthrowing Basha through extralegal means.
Sali Berisha's desperation today makes his predicament clearer. Five years after the "Non Grata" declaration by the US and with 11 million euros paid to remove him, nothing has changed and the chances of the opposite are close to zero. With the help of organized crime and Edi Rama, he seized control of the DP, at least temporarily. The result: It is today more divided, weaker, smaller than ever before in its history, but above all the only crutch and alibi that keeps Rama's corrupt government in power. But it is even worse: Sali Berisha has consciously turned into a vassal of Edi Rama, as the vote to bring the latter to the White House showed. The paranoia to keep under control that part of the DP that he uses to present himself in SPAK and GJKKO as a politically wounded "Leader of the Opposition", is pushing him towards ridiculous acts, such as the exclusion of those who stood by him, but who today understand that with Berisha there are only dark days ahead./Alfapress.al
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