Next speech/ Berisha: With the May 8 protest, we showed the world that we do not give up

2026-05-11 20:09:49 / POLITIKË ALFA PRESS
Next speech/ Berisha: With the May 8 protest, we showed the world that we do not

The leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, speaking at the 'Pulpit' in front of the prime minister's office, praised the May 8 protest as a 'great message of revolt', stating that Albanian citizens showed that they do not surrender in the face of what he described as a 'dictatorship'.

He expressed gratitude to citizens who, according to him, are showing courage and resilience against a regime that he accused of theft, links to crime, and impoverishment of the country.

The opposition leader highlighted the participation in the May 8 protest in Tirana, saying that thousands of citizens, despite the rain and what he described as 'state terror and media censorship', took to the boulevard to express their revolt against the government.

Excerpt from the speech of the leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha:

Good evening and warmest greetings! My deepest gratitude to you, men and women, young men and women, and the elderly, who are writing with your courage, your endurance, your determination, and your indomitable spirit, a bright chapter in our national history.

You are rising up, brave men, against a dictatorship based on the theft of Albanians, based on drugs, crime, terrorizing citizens, impoverishing and depriving them. Rise up and prove to the Albanians that you are invincible, that you will defend your cause with every sacrifice.

Therefore, I have great respect for you. I have great and boundless respect for those tens of thousands of citizens who filled the boulevard of Tirana on May 8 and who became the mirror, the morality, the true image of the Albanian, in all four corners of the nation, in all four corners of the earth.

On a day of incessant rain, after a comprehensive state terror, after an unprecedented terror and media censorship. Tens of thousands of citizens gathered to express their revolt against a hostile regime, against Albania and Albanians.

They gathered to prove that they are the hope of this country, that they are the elite of Albanian courage, that they are the citizens with the highest responsibility to themselves, to their family, to society and to their country.

They gathered to convey to every Albanian, but also to every free citizen in Europe and the world, that we will never agree with this regime, which does not have a single legitimate hour. With this regime, which transforms the most fundamental process of democracy, elections, into an electoral farce.

They do not agree with this regime, which, in order to steal the elections, arrests the opposition leadership in the election year, in order to sow terror, as persons under investigation.

They do not agree with a narco-dictator, who, in order to sow terror in his citizens, brings them to the courtroom, in a glass cage, by trampling on the European Convention on Human Rights, by trampling on the country's Constitution, by trampling on the United Nations Charter of Freedoms and Rights of Citizens.

I bring the former president, the former prime minister, the former speaker of parliament into the cage to tell the Albanians that, when I put this one in the cage, I put you in the grave alive. This is the morality that this bastard of executioners, Koleka-Rama, has. Therefore, I repeatedly declare that he has brought the criminal morality of his fathers into the criminal morality of his government.

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