The power of vanity! The protest broke the "magic" of Rama and Berisha

2026-08-19 15:52:42 / EDITORIAL NGA INDRIT GJYZELI
The power of vanity! The protest broke the "magic" of Rama and Berisha

By Indrit Gjizeli

The DP continues to insist as if the protest has nothing to do with it. Trapped in a surprising futility, under the sole and perfect magic of Sali Berisha to survive at the head of the DP, most of the Democrats are playing the role of an ostrich in the face of what Albanian society is seeking - a path opening that will make it possible to create a broad opposition coalition, free from the burdens of the past, to overthrow Rama.

In fact, Rama himself has hinted that he is doing everything he can to convince the socialists to continue with him. He is ready to change ministers and directors. He has made offers to people who have been important in the DP to join him, even those he has attacked to the point of moral disloyalty. He has made public calls for young people to compete for the administration, clearly implying that the public administration he has built has lost all meaning.

The truth is that the Rama of 2026 has nothing to do with the Rama of 2013, who declared that he and only he would be held accountable for unfulfilled promises, who would demand an administration that serves the citizen. But instead of accountability and responsibility, he has sold the public "people who eat plums and pears behind their backs", and has endlessly blamed his opponents and citizens, who, according to him, are falling on his neck in vain.

Not a word about the nonsense of tenders, roads that are being destroyed as if they were fish bread, with incinerators only on paper and with the money that has been signed. He is the prime minister with half of his friends in prison under allegations of corruption. Let's not talk about the lies about employment, about 24-hour water, or about farmers' money being turned into hotels. And yet, he continues calmly, with an opponent like Berisha who has no intention of reading the popular rejection. 

In short, this political tango that is danced on the backs of Albanians is seeking to play the same music with the protest. 

It must be admitted that Berisha's attempt to give the protest its own color and the frightening installation of slander and fabrications against the protest leaders by the government's propaganda machine have momentarily shrunk the number of protesters. But both know that the protest has deprived them of popular support, and therefore any insistence by Berisha and Rama not to read the popular anger, which is thousands and thousands of times greater than the protest, simply rots them politically. 

In this popular overthrow of Rama and Berisha, the wonder is in the immense silence that is occurring in the DP, as clearly those who do not speak are signing the death of the party before God has decided to take their leader to the other world. /Alfapress.al

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