FLASH
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The reconquest of the DP by Berisheism occurred like an Ottoman horde, which used the membership as a personal army to protect the "sultan" from international justice.
Sali Berisha's party is not just a defeated party. It has been crushed. In addition to being electorally devastated, it has given its opponents the opportunity to achieve a qualified majority in the Albanian Parliament, towards 84 mandates, making the DP irrelevant in any process that requires political consensus, including changes to qualified laws or the Electoral Code.
In the debate about crushing this party, it is pointless to deal with people who try to invent reasons beyond Berishaism. They should either be treated as fools, not worth talking to, or as evil people who essentially hate the Democratic Party and are only concerned with keeping Sali Berisha's corpse afloat.
The former Democratic Party was defeated by Berishaism. And it was not defeated on May 11, 2025. It suffered the final blow from Berisha's return to the DP on May 19, 2021 — the day his attack on the party he once led began, after being declared "non grata" by the US. What began as a "war for internal democracy" ended as a personal usurpation, turning the DP into a weapon against the very West that once supported it.
The reconquest of the DP by Berishaism occurred like an Ottoman horde, using the membership as a personal army to protect the “sultan” from international justice. This reconquest brought back to the DP all the old wounds, suffered since its founding and deepened during the 35-year rule of Sali Berisha.
All the symptoms of degradation appeared more clearly than ever in this campaign.
The first painful manifestation was the use of the entire opposition structure to wash away Berisha's sins. 6 million dollars publicly declared and several times more undeclared were paid in a non-transparent manner to morally amnesty Berisha from his anti-American history.
Through conspiracy theories and shameful campaigns, an attempt was made to convince the public that the US could be bought. The country that symbolizes world democracy was presented as a system where sins could be washed away through lobbying paid for with dirty money, precisely for the corruption that was the reason for the sanctions.
What followed were ridiculous maneuvers to convince Albanians that the “non grata” had been lifted, that Berisha could travel to the US, and further, illusions led by an American “strategist” who, apparently, did not understand where he had come from. This discourse turned Sali Berisha into a ridiculous and self-compromised figure.
Now I'm ready to pay for his ticket to the US whenever he wants, but the reality is that he doesn't have a visa — neither he, nor his wife, nor his daughter, nor his son. All this presented his party as an ignorant mob following the whims of an evil old man who thought that every sin could be washed away with money.
The most frightening element that reminded Albanians of who Berisha's party is was violence as a political identity. Wherever they displayed violence, they were overthrown from their strongholds.
In Dibër, due to Xhelal Mziu's acts of violence, where he physically attacked opponents and held the streets hostage, the SP overturned the result. From a winning district for the DP, it turned into a winning district for the SP.
In Lezha, the DP lost a stronghold due to the aggressive behavior of Gjin Gjon, who was waiting for an opportunity to fight with the citizens and ended up under investigation. From 4 to 3 for the DP with normal tendencies, 5 to 2, it turned into 4 to 3 for the SP.
In Devoll, a traditional stronghold of the DP, the result was overturned due to the MP who attacked truck drivers and behaved like a gangster.
In Elbasan, where the SP won 8 mandates, a DP leader declared that he would "eat the socialists alive," and the SP ended up with 10 mandates.
In Vora, Flamur Noka's behavior, which dragged commissioners away on the morning of the vote, spectacularly destroyed the entire image of the DP in public opinion, causing damage beyond Vora.
The DP once again emerged as a crude, arrogant, violent party — a label it tried to leave behind, but which Berisha himself decided to expose in all its depth.
Finally, Berishizm finally strangled the DP when it re-conquered it in the name of “internal democracy” and the “war on Lulzim Basha”. The primaries turned into a farce. Those who ran with confidence were thrown off the safe lists and pushed into areas where they could not cross the threshold. The final list of candidates came out of the office of Sali Berisha’s son, where you either paid or became a soldier.
In the end, Berisha emerges as the biggest loser in the history of the DP, and declares that he will not leave, except "when God takes him."
The four-year re-occupation by Berishism is the fatal cycle of the clinical death of the Democratic Party. Do not insult the intelligence of Albanians by inventing other reasons for this end. The former DP was drowned by the incestuous instincts of Sali Berisha — a man who would rather rape the DP himself than see it live without him.
Don't insult the Democrats by calling them guilty for the defeat. The Democrats themselves voted against the DP. The Socialists received the same votes they had. The Democrats' revolt against Sali Berisha is what crushed him.
Don't call them ignorant — the ignorant are the ones who turned the DP into an incorrigible political caricature.
The Free Democrats are now tasting the fruits of their battle. Look at who has won the most votes in the DP, to understand who the Democrats want and who Berishaism wants as soldiers. The Democrats who identify themselves with Berishaism are crying over the political corpse of Sali Berisha. And with him, over the grave of a party that could have been hope.
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