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Revolt in Tirana/ Fatos Tarifa letter to Albanian socialists: Wake up before it's too late!
2026-06-08 08:19:44 / POLITIKË
Albanian socialists!
Members of the Socialist Party!
Deputies and supporters of this party!
At the head of the party, you have a man who commands you, demands unconditional obedience for everything, insults you with his language and behavior, tramples on your dignity instead of respecting you, consulting with you, and leading you.
At the head of the government, elected by the Socialists, we have a prime minister whom a large part of the people no longer supports and loves, as the massive protests of recent days prove. These protests are not the result of some hybrid war by Albania's external enemies, as the prime minister tries to convince Albanians, but the result of the despair and anger accumulated by systemic corruption, arbitrariness in decision-making and his misgovernance.
It is not the Socialist Party that the people reject, but its leader and the country's prime minister, who, for thirteen years (today he is the longest-serving prime minister in office in all of Europe), has ruled with arrogance, treating power as personal property. In these 13 years in Albania, what Edi Rama wanted and how he wanted has been done, not to meet the needs of the citizens nor by being accountable to them or their representatives. This is not the way a parliamentary democracy functions, nor even a constitutional monarchy. This is the model of an autocracy, of a sultanate, where the will of a single man replaces the will of the people.
For years, Mr. Rama has been repeating the refrain that he remains at the head of the government thanks to the votes of Albanian socialists and supporters of the Socialist Party—your votes and mine. But this is only his alibi for not relinquishing power, after which he has been captured and enamored just like Berisha and every politician who transforms authoritarianism into a method of governance and a way of ruling.
Thousands of young people who have joined the Socialist Party in recent years and tens of thousands of socialists who have voted for this party have found the prime minister at its head, without ever having the opportunity to choose between him and someone else. In fact, Rama has closed off any space for others in that party to compete with him.
As for his alibi that it is the eight hundred thousand votes of the "socialist people" that keep him in the post of prime minister, from which he says that, because of those votes, he will never leave, this is, like any alibi, a big lie. The Albanians have given eight hundred thousand votes for the Socialist Party, not for Edi Rama. And they would give them even if another individual were at its head—a wise and honest socialist, who sees power as a service to the public and the interests of the country, not as personal property.
I am not a nihilist and I do not deny the positive developments and achievements of these recent years. But, if until now you have believed the myth concocted by Mr. Rama himself—that only he can lead and develop this country, that only he has the magical power to bring Albania into the European Union—today is the time to free yourself from this illusion and face reality. Just as Berisha was not the one who brought Albania into NATO and enabled free visa-free movement in Europe, Rama is not the one who will bring this country into the EU, despite his efforts to sell this as truth.
The massive protests of recent days create a reasonable suspicion that the Socialist Party, the largest party in the country, may not be guaranteed the votes it has received so far in the upcoming elections. The reason is simple: this party is completely identified with Prime Minister Rama, whose departure is now being demanded by a large part of Albanians, including many socialists.
In order not to lose its vocation, mission, and part of its electorate—especially the youth of Generation Z and, very soon, those of Generation Alpha—the Socialist Party, its governing bodies, and the members of its parliamentary group must separate from Rama. The time is now, not tomorrow, when it will be too late. Until now, he has used the Socialist Party as a warhorse to seize and hold power, but never to lead in its name. The time has come to dismount him from that horse. You have all the possibilities, if you overcome fear and break the cult of the individual and the myth of irreplaceability.
I would not want the Socialist Party to suffer the fate of the Democratic Party because of its leader: to be "berichized", to become a mere straw man, for the broad mass of socialists to become even more disillusioned and for its main figures to turn into the SP's Voks and Noks—loyal to the end to the leader, but blind to their party.
You must take the fate of the Socialist Party into your own hands. In the hands of Edi Rama, this party may not have a better fate than Berisha's DP. This would be a great loss for democracy in Albania.
In the name of Albania and for the good of the young generation and democracy in this country, do not let this happen!
Ultimately, today's young generation and future generations will judge us not only for what we have done and continue to do, but also for what we did not do at the right time and in the right way./ Gazetadita.al
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