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Shkruar nga Gjergj ZefiThe votes for Tabaku and Alimehmet were a silent rebellion against Berisha: a clear message from the Democrats for a new, reasonable opposition freed from the legacy...
In the May 11 elections, the Democratic Party and its allies, together with participation from the diaspora, reached over 530 thousand votes. If we add to this figure the votes of other opposition parties, we have before us a considerable mass, representing Albania that no longer loves Edi Rama. A silent majority that knows that it cannot win, but that has decided not to give up.
This is not a mass of blind fans, but people who, although disappointed, continue to look for an alternative. And while Sali Berisha wins mandates on bargains and closed lists, the same voters sent him a clear message through preferential voting: more votes for Jorida Tabaku and Ilir Alimehmet: two figures who represent political normality and not polarized extremism.
This is a defiant vote, within the list, to show Berisha and his clan that the DP is no longer personal property. Its militants and activists are tired, not only of the losses, but of the shadows of the past. They no longer want to be part of a war between two "eternal leaders" who have bargained with each other for justice, for elections, for towers and for everything else.
Opposition voters have understood that the hatred that Berisha and Rama sow against each other is a strategy to control power, not to divide it. This hatred does not bring change, but stalemate, and the May 11 vote has broken this formula.
The facts speak for themselves: Berisha no longer has with him either the former technical leaders, the democratic intellectuals, or the moderate figures. No experienced director from the previous government publicly supported this campaign. No well-known doctor, no university professor, no real expert did, except for the spokesmen of strife and nostalgia.
Democratic voters have abandoned protests, rallies, and personal attacks. They no longer want polarization. They want politics of reason, of the civic model, of argument. The vote for Alimehmet and Tabaku is an internal referendum to remove Berisha and pave the way for a new opposition.
This opposition cannot be built on worn-out figures like Flamur Noka, Tritan Shehu, Gjin Gjoni, Albana Vokshi or candidates who are perceived as archetypes of political degradation. These faces are "unpresentable" and the vote showed this.
The future of the opposition requires something completely different: a new leadership, a new model, a new social pact. A real opening for new figures, with credibility and professionalism. Not sons of their fathers, not political heirs, not "owners" of the opposition cause.
And, most importantly, this new opposition must emerge with a clear signal to gray voters and to the West: an irreversible divorce from Sali Berisha, both in form and content.
This is the silent demand of hundreds of thousands of voters who no longer want to wake up every morning to the noise of a war that brings no victory. It is time for an opposition that builds, not burns; that convinces, not screams; that wins by example, not by myth./ Pamphlet
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