The head of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, accused the government of “remaining in the classroom” regarding the conditions for the integration of Albania and that the last report of the European Parliament was a strong criticism of the government of Edi Rama.
While delivering his speech at the meeting with the supporters and structures of Branch 5 in Tirana this evening (May 6), the chief democrat said that the document approved by the MEPs “nails Rama in every line”.
He described the report as similar to the eight previous resolutions that relied on the DP’s denunciations, ranging from corruption and electoral crime, organized crime, government scandals, power grabs and the lack of free elections or pressures on justice.
He emphasized that the resistance of the opposition and the citizen protests were key to bring international attention, causing fact-finding missions by representatives of European institutions to take place in Albania. According to him, these missions have met political actors, media and civil society to verify the situation on the ground.
Berisha said that the Democratic Party has gone through one of the most difficult periods, but according to him, it has become the “most supported political force” thanks to the endurance of the citizens, appreciating the endurance of the supporters.
Referring to the situation in the country, Berisha spoke about the departure of young people, poverty and problems in public services, while appealing for the continuation of protests and civic engagement.
Sali Berisha’s speech:
“This endurance, this invincible spirit of yours, made the Albanian opposition go through the most difficult past that a political force may have gone through in the last 100 years in Europe.
This resistance of yours made the DP from the most isolated political force on the planet, transformed not by deus ex machina, but with your resistance and courage, into the most supported political force in its entire history, into the most supported political force in Europe.
So this is a reward for your fatigue. A reward for your sacrifice. An indisputable reward for your indomitable spirit.
Friends, 8 resolutions were sanctioned in which Edi Rama’s narco-state, Edi Rama’s thefts, his absolute power, his electoral farce, his unconstitutional positions were voted one after the other by all the center-right and right-wing parties in the world.
What did the propaganda say?
They are party resolutions. Even partisan, they had an extraordinary value that those parties that signed those resolutions govern the world today. But wait, your voice was heard. Your position was heard because only two or three months ago, they came here to see the events, developments, two fact-gathering missions among the most important in the country’s history.
I will also confess one thing, you know. One of our difficulties has been and continues to be today, that the events in Albania are unbelievable.
And not one, but I am telling you, during these years, with dozens of friends, personalities, at the end of the conversation they tell me: Sali, these are incredible things.
And what happened?
That’s why two fact-finding missions came. They saw them here. One consisted of representatives of 30 European political parties, chaired by the General Secretary of the EPP. The other, the fact-finding mission of the Foreign Committee of the Parliament, which has 180 European parliamentarians in its bosom, came headed by the chairman of a committee.
They stayed. Citizens met. Political forces met. They met the media. They met the civil society. And yesterday the report was voted. That report, I tell you, is like a drop of water divided in two with all the resolutions approved until today by the political forces.
But that report is no longer of the center-right and right-wing parties, but that report is voted by the entire European political spectrum in the European Parliament.
In fact, to find out, the reporter is a socialist, a very important member of the socialist parliamentary group in the EP. And there, after an intensive work, the report nailed Edi Rama in every line.
The report nailed Lubi Balluk.
It has protected you, it has protected Albanian citizens, it has protected the integration process, it has protected the future of Albanians.
So, if you didn’t protest, can you imagine what this report would be like? Never. If you didn’t protest, would the fact-finding missions have come? No.
Never has your voice been heard more and you have done so under the most difficult conditions. Of a psychological terror, of an economic terror, of an all-round terror.
And a student said one day, Mr. Berisha, I’m at university, I express myself, I can’t stand it, regardless of what they can do to my parents, but I take it into account, I want to speak, to tell the truth.
But there are friends of mine who don’t do that, they prefer silence.
What is this silence?
This is banal evil. Hannah Arendt, a prominent philosopher of the last century, goes to Eichmann’s trial. Eichmann was a senior Nazi officer through whose hands the documents for millions of Jews in the ovens of the concentration camps had passed.
And this one sitting. And that goes to see the monster of humanity there. He goes there, follows the trial, he was an ordinary man. He was a man who told the judge, Mr. Judge, I followed the order, this order came to me from so-and-so. In a word, he felt like a clerk. But he had lost all human ability to protest, to oppose the order.
Therefore, silence is banal evil. Because the citizen is never silent before this destruction of the nation.
Because the citizen is never silent when he sees that 720 thousand young people left Albania. Because the citizen is never silent when he sees that poverty is getting worse every month and more. Because the citizen is never silent when he sees destroyed hospitals, destroyed services. When you see great uncertainty everywhere. So we, so I started with you, you are the true elite of the nation.
Yes, yes, absolutely.
And we will continue this mission because this mission is our great destiny to serve ourselves, our family and our country. And we will win this battle.
Edi Rama is mortally wounded. Edi Rama can’t take himself anymore. No.”.
