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Not being with Berisha doesn't automatically mean you're with Rama.
2026-02-22 11:54:59 / IDE
This is the false dilemma that has been presented to the public for years: either with one or the other. Either with the past that refuses to go away, or with the present that refuses to move.
I have many reasons to be against Edi Rama.
I have told him and I say: his time is up. After so many years in power, he no longer represents hope, but consumption. He is no longer an alternative, but establishment. He is no longer a solution, but part of the problem. Albania does not need a prime minister who survives on the weakness of his opponent, but for an alternative that arises from the strength of ideas.
But here's the paradox: every time Sali Berisha and all his Bershies appear on stage, it becomes clear why Rama continues to win. Because Rama does not win from his greatness; he wins from the fear of return. He wins from the long memory of Albanians. He wins from the fact that many citizens, even when they are tired of him, do not want to go back.
Berisha is no longer an alternative. He is a memory. And not a neutral memory, but a divisive, conflictual memory, burdened with unresolved crises. His every public appearance is a reminder to the gray voter why he chooses the "known evil" instead of the "returned evil."
So the bitter truth for the Democrats is this: before they can overthrow Rama, they must overthrow Berisha. Not as an act of revenge, but as an act of political survival. A party that does not free itself from the shadow of the eternal leader can never produce new leadership. And without new leadership, there is no rotation. There is only recycling.
Rama remains in power because he has a figure who mobilizes opposition as much as he mobilizes supporters. He feeds on polarization. Every time the debate descends to the Rama-Berisha level, Albania remains hostage to a duel that should have ended long ago.
If democrats truly want power, they must understand that the first battle is internal. They must win over nostalgia, over the cult of the individual, over the idea that the party is personal property. Only then can they claim the trust of the majority.
Because today, for many Albanians, the choice is not between Rama and Berisha. It is between stagnation and the fear of a return. And as long as the second alternative has the old face, the first remains less dangerous.
Not being with Berisha does not mean that you are with Rama. It means that you are with the idea that Albania deserves more than this tired duel. But to achieve this, someone must have the courage to say: enough with both of them.
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