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And if we go back in time, referring to the 'regret' that MPs or party bureaucrats had, the manipulation scheme was simple in the DP even when there were formally 4 candidates in the race...
The Democratic Party membership has been called to a referendum today to reconfirm Sali Berisha as the leader of the largest opposition party. Berisha has no opponents facing him, while at least 5 names, including Ervin Salianji, Evi Kokalari and Alesia Balliu, were not allowed to run on the grounds that they did not meet the criteria or were not part of the DP structures.
The process begins at 08:00 and lasts until 18:00, while voting will be held in over 73 DP branches across the country, although at no point was the number of members who will have the right to vote published, keeping one of the main elements of the referendum 'secret'.
Berisha was publicly asked about the number of members, while avoiding a direct answer, but he called on members to participate massively. This is also the main challenge that the democratic leader has in what is considered a referendum within the DP, while Berisha is competing with himself.
This is the second time in just over 4 years that Berisha has asked the membership to reconfirm, but without managing to build a real competition within the DP, which could set a different standard than the one that has been applied in almost over 90% of all competitions that this party has held from 1992 to date.
On December 18, 2021, Berisha was confirmed as Chairman of the DP with 40,820 votes from members, out of 43,680 who declared that they participated at that time in the referendum called. And this remains the only challenge that Berisha has in today's elections, so will he manage to get as many votes in the process as in 2021?
In conditions where no one can control how real the process is, since all procedures are monitored and controlled by Berisha's loyalists, it seems like an objective that even if not achieved in reality, will be 'adjusted' at the end of the process. Simply, those who deal with the minutes should be attentive and not repeat the mistakes that have revealed manipulation in many cases, whenever there have been elections in the DP.
And if we go back in time, referring also to the 'regret' of the MPs or party bureaucrats, the manipulation scheme was simple in the DP even when formally there were 4 candidates in the race. The June 2021 elections, when Lulzim Basha was running against Agron Shehaj, Edit Harxhi and Fatbardh Kadilli, are enough, for the boxes to be filled with votes in Basha's favor, and his rivals learned of such a fact a few months later, after Edi Paloka publicly claimed that he had influenced the process.
This is enough to understand that today Berisha's 'loyalists' are not concerned with the result of the reconfirmation, but with the objective of equaling the result of 2021 or exceeding it. But if we focus on the political developments after the elections of May 11, 2025, in quite a few branches of the DP in the districts there was a flow of membership from this party towards the government of Edi Rama. Vlora, Fier and Elbasan were the cities where after the elections there was the largest flow of structures from the DP towards Rama's Rilindja, while recently messages have been published that have highlighted that in other branches too, the presence of names in the leadership structures is formal, since in quite a few cases they are in constant communication with their political opponents.
Berisha officially returned to the leadership of the DP in December 2021, through a Re-establishment process, which was 'sold' as a salvation for the largest opposition party, but which ultimately resulted in simply a process where the former prime minister would take control of every cell in this party.
The only promise Berisha offers to the Democrats is to oust Rama from power, even though he has failed completely in over 4 years. But the former prime minister has declared another 'finding', that of the last kilometer of the opposition action, although this expression has produced quite a few memes on social networks.
The process for electing the leader of the Democratic Party of Albania officially opened in March, while for weeks the procedures that would allow for a real competition in this party were blocked.
Evi Kokalari, Ervin Salianji, Alesia Balliu, Mereme Sela and Vladimir Mulaj were not allowed to run, and some of them even had their application documents not accepted, claiming that they were not members or had self-excluded from the race.
This has caused a series of reactions. Some of the candidates attempted to block the process by going to the Tirana Court, while Evi Kokalari, one of the founding members of the Re-establishment Commission, has chosen to go to SPAK, where she lists a series of accusations not only against Sali Berisha, but also his family.
Kokalari uses as an argument the taking of the party hostage since the Assembly on April 30, 2022 until today.
Meanwhile, Ervin Salianji has complained to the European People's Parties through a public letter stating that the Democratic Party has been taken hostage by Sali Berisha.
After today's referendum, the DP will hold a meeting of the National Assembly where changes to the statute will be approved, which will most likely place this party even more under control of Berisha and his family. / Pamphlet /
Ky plak palaço duhet kap per zhelesh me e qit jashte porte se kurkund snigjo me shku
Fajin e ka vetem SPAKU,se perndryshe PD, e transformoj ne SHPK, me gjithe QELBANIKET e tij , PLERA i VICIDOLLIT.