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Protests as a furnace where the new political system is being forged
2026-07-29 11:51:38 / IDE
One of the certainly benevolent misunderstandings that is frequently appearing in the interpretation of this protest is the attempt to consider it as the birth of a 'new opposition.' But although at first glance this seems like a positive definition, it is essentially a wrong definition, because it limits a fundamental phenomenon for democracy within the logic of the existing system.
The opposition is a structural component of the political system, because it exercises control over the government, competes for power and functions according to the logic of the constitutional order. But a civic protest with the dimensions and characteristics that are emerging today seems not to have the mission of simply replacing the opposition, because its role and function is much deeper, to recreate the conditions on which legitimacy and new political representation in Albania will be built.
This is because when citizens no longer trust existing political actors, the problem is no longer just who will be in opposition or who will be in government, the problem becomes the legitimacy of the system itself.
At this point, protest is no longer an instrument of pressure on power, it becomes the space where a new political order begins to take shape.
This is why the protest should not be seen as the new opposition. It has already become the 'political oven' where the majority and the opposition of tomorrow are being cooked and baked simultaneously.
Within it, new relationships of trust are being created, new figures are being tried out, ideas are being tested, and credibility is being built that will then be translated into political representation.
Meanwhile, the old system faces the biggest problem a democratic regime can have, the loss of legitimacy and trust of citizens. When trust fades steadily, political legitimacy also begins to be consumed. They may continue to exist formally, but their ability to represent citizens has received a fatal blow, which is unlikely to recover.
For this reason, attention should not be focused on the question of which political force will represent the protest. The more important question is what political system will emerge from it. Because that is where the majority of civic trust is being invested today.
If this process continues and manages to maintain its civic character, the protest will be remembered as the moment when a new majority, a new opposition, and, above all, a new political balance began to take shape, built on the legitimacy that stems from the trust of citizens.
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