Why is someone from abroad reluctant to take on the Albanian opposition?
This equation has the solution inside. After today, the opposition has become a battlefield between the people of Sali Berisha and those of Lulzim Basha.
If an outsider will come to run; either it must come with the electorate, which is impossible, or it must come with a lot of money, as Donald Trump entered the American Republicans. But he had been running for years and years, and years and years building the ground to run.
Today, the organizational terrain of the Democratic Party has made a carpet of every voice that does not belong to the warring parties. The exclusion of all voices over the years, from the motionists to the DP conservatives, has turned the organization of the opposition structures into military units and refractory to any change.
Can you imagine an outsider in 1991 running for the head of the Socialist Party? Of course not! It was Ramiz Alia, who set up an organizing committee for holding the 10th congress of the ALP, where the only members of the Political Bureau were himself and Xelil Gjoni.
Sali Berisha does not even intend to make way for a name from abroad. Even Evi Kokalari, who helped him when Lul Basha expelled him, dismissed him. Berisha is telling everyone that he has prepared his daughter to replace him in the near future.
Even if he puts a formal name as a candidate for prime minister for the next election, he will not be the leader of the opposition, but only a caretaker of the doctor. Similar to Ridvan Bode's candidacy in the 2000 elections, since Berisha was 'Non-Grata' even then.
The only one who could make this bold move was Lulzim Basha, but he did everything to put himself at the head of the divided party, which closed the process.
Basha's call for Bamir Topi, Rexhep Ukës or Spartak Njjela in symposiums, and with one foot, since they are still not convinced, is not a movement.
There are two ways Basha, if he wants to stop the next hemorrhage to Berisha and the drastic blocking of the opposition in the doctor's attic.
The first that could result, and the most western, is the calling of a Constitutional Assembly, where everyone is invited, all those who have left over the years, to approve a work program to lead to a free and fair election process, which they would not be observed but counted by people from the European People's Party. In this process, the president and the new leadership will be voted by an Assembly or a wider electoral body. Lulzim Basha should postpone the process, but it makes no sense for him to run again.
This process would bring a political hurricane, taking the full initiative until the elections, and in all likelihood could approach the middle class.
Meanwhile, the second path would be that of Ramiz Ali, i.e. the creation of an organizing committee to set up a new DP Assembly, where the entire current leadership is excluded. If this happens, Basha will again have to postpone the process and stay in the background. Any stubbornness to keep the leadership of the opposition with 12 years at the head, is not only inconvenient, but also does not open a new window for fresh air to enter, in a room where for 30 years only the spirit of a group that has turned into a sect.
There is also a third way; the merger of the party and the establishment of a new one, but it must be started from the first path, i.e. from the Constituent Assembly./ Pamphlet
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