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For Berisha, it is vital that he is not ousted from power within the opposition...
Berisha could have spared that sentence about Salianja's self-exclusion "because he crossed the red lines". Not only was Flamur the first to say this, but Flamur did as soon as he heard it. He should have avoided it especially so that it did not look like the first "success" of the protest in front of the Prime Minister's Office. It was clear that Berisha called the protest to tell the democrats either with me or with Salianja, and not just with Salianja, but "either me or Agron Shehaj", "either me or Lapaj", and so on with anyone who casts a shadow over him within the opposition.
For Berisha, it is vital that he is not ousted from power within the opposition.
In fact, citizens have stayed away from this banal rivalry, but the Democrats seem to be gradually demolishing its myth. The protest was a bitter slap in the face, at a time when the opposition has every political reason to be tens of times bigger. And the reason is firefighter Sali Berisha.
Salijanj's immediate expulsion and his declaration of self-exclusion, after the protest, exposed his entire real predicament.
Beyond this scenario that was clear from the day he scheduled the protest, it is necessary to understand how the mechanism of permission to be an opposition member alongside Berisha, or within him, works.
Formally, the DP has a statute that defines the rules of political cooperation in the DP. The statute has neither red nor green lines. The only one who has crossed the red lines so far is Berisha, who himself inserted into the statute what he called the “Basha Article”, according to which the president must resign after a defeat regardless of the justifications he may give, and has arrogantly violated it without calling anyone a red line.
Now, what red line has Salianji crossed?
Did he hold meetings without Berisha's permission? This is not written in the statute. Everyone is free to meet the Democrats wherever and whenever they want, if they gather.
Although the DP has a tradition of not discussing the reasons invented by Sali Berisha for 35 years, this invention that “someone crosses the red line” needs a formal legal explanation from the DP. Not for Salijanji, but for the next critic. An internal regulation should be set that determines what you can do in the DP without Berisha’s permission. And it should be clearly stated: Without the permission of the Chairman, you can eat three meals, they may not all be on the same schedule, urinate at home or in the office where and when you need to, meet Flamur if he has time, participate in the meetings of the presidency and take notes on Berisha’s speech, implement the instructions of Flamur, Albana or someone else in the name of the Doctor and other things like this. But here too, it needs to be determined that everything else that is not described is outside the red line. Because with the principle of a free society, something that is not forbidden is allowed. For this reason, it is necessary to write: criticism of Berisha is prohibited, it is forbidden to remind him of the DP statute and when he violates it, it is forbidden to criticize his servile subordinates for mistakes that Berisha has forgiven them, or anything else that can also be called a red line.
It seems like humor, but it is necessary for these things to be described, as anyone who might make a mistake in the future will be caught by the red line article.
All of this is happening at a time when Berisha has promised opposition unity, and even worse when he seeks to appear as if he is leading a party based on votes and grassroots support.
The Democrats of Kavaja who support Salianji, and whom Berisha has accused of being defectors, were at the rally with Salianji and posted photos with him. Should they be expelled too? Have they also crossed the red line? Should all the Democrats who go to meetings with him be expelled?
These questions are useful for understanding how a man alarmed that he is being overthrown from power within the opposition, invents imaginary lines to exclude any angle that threatens his power within the opposition.
And now the DP must take measures to prevent Salianji and the Democrats who support him from participating in other protests, as they could be called the government's fifth column. And to consolidate this practice, it will need several more rallies with just as few people as the one on Monday, where it will be shown that Salianji and others like him are not even allowed to approach the DP.
This degradation of a private political party, which unlike any opposition in the world that fights to take power from the government, has turned into a battle where it fights not to take power from the opposition Sali Berisha, is the reason why people stay away from his opposition and even more the reason why the government, at the height of the accusations against it, feels comfortable with Sali Berisha in front of it. And the funny thing is that the more he tells the democrats this, the more they believe that they are doing the right thing by keeping the corpse of Sali Berisha at the head of the opposition government. And then they wonder why Edi Rama has 83 mandates and if he wants to hold new elections, he should hold 88.
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