Berisha: Let's not confuse real intellectuals with pseudo-intellectuals like Topi, Basha, etc...

2026-01-31 13:29:48 / POLITIKË ALFA PRESS

Berisha: Let's not confuse real intellectuals with pseudo-intellectuals

The leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, who is surrounded by "intellectuals" like Flamur Noka, Albana Vokshi, Klevis Balliu, etc., has attacked Bamir Topi, Lulzim Basha, Astrit Patozin, Enkelejd Alibeaj, etc., calling them pseudo-intellectuals!

Question: Within the framework of the political dialogue table, do you think that intellectuals should also invite Bamir Topi, Lulzim Basha, Alibeaj, Patoz, etc.

Sali Berisha : Are you talking about intellectuals or pseudo-intellectuals? Excuse me, please. I know that maybe this doesn't suit you, but I say it sincerely and from my heart.

And please, to convince yourself of this, go back a little to 1990 and read an interview I gave to the newspaper Drita and you can be the first person I tell to read something of mine, because it is never my habit to make a distinction between intellectuals and pseudo-intellectuals.
I had a big problem with this, because there were real intellectuals, there were others, then there were those who called themselves intellectuals and behaved like pseudo-intellectuals.

Now these are the disaster, the pseudo-intellectuals are the disaster of the nation, they are the national misery, so I say, we better not confuse them.
Let me ask you a question now.

Didn't they have the opportunity to be for the good of Albania? Didn't this party give them every opportunity?

Please, didn't you give them every opportunity, and what did they use it for?

Bamir Topi's favors were his properties, Lulzim Basha's, his enrichment and destruction. As for the other one, go and ask those who run the campaign what they say.

So let's not talk about pseudo-intellectuals.
I find him a true intellectual and, in truth, I have the greatest respect for him.

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