Sara Mile has found the culprit for the student protest and the violence that accompanied the clashes with the police: Sali Berisha. The socialist MP, who was only two years old in 1997, has decided to remind Albanians of the traumas of that year and explain to them who is endangering the future of their children.
In a Facebook post, Mile accuses Berisha of jeopardizing Albania's path to the European Union because of his ego. Of course, the MP has the right to talk about 1997, even though she has known it mainly from the stories of others. But it is somewhat strange that she so easily finds those responsible for a past she does not remember, while she does not see the responsibilities of her government for the present.
Because students didn't take to the streets in 1997. They protest in 2026, after thirteen years of socialist rule, in a country where a degree doesn't guarantee a job and where political connections are often worth more than skills.
Sara Mile is herself one of the most significant products of this system. A rapidly catapulted MP into politics, whose name has been included in debates about the votes coming from Rrogozhina prison. Precisely the model of a political career that feeds the disappointment of an entire generation: loyalty to the party, servility to power, and climbing the hierarchy without having to prove much to the public.
And now, from her seat as a member of parliament, Mile explains to the young people that their problem is a politician who ran the country when she was two years old.
Sali Berisha has his responsibilities for the past. But Sara Mile and her colleagues are part of the government that must be held accountable for the present.
Students have not taken to the streets to change the history of 1997. They have taken to the streets because they do not want their future to continue to be decided by people who have turned servility into merit and the party into a career elevator.
