While the walls of the Assembly Presidency building still smell of tear gas from Sunday's protest, tomorrow is expected to be a test of the Democratic Party's morale and political strategy.
At 1:00 PM, in the parliamentary group hall, a meeting of the Special Commission for Administrative-Territorial Reform has been called. The agenda is the approval of the calendar for field consultations. But the question that burns more than the tear gas is not the "meeting dates", but the presence of the opposition.
The commission only functions when the opposition and the two co-chairs, Arbian Mazniku and Luciano Boçi, participate.
Just two days ago, on the holiday of Sultan Novruz, the images of the historic leader of the Democrats, Sali Berisha, with his eyes irritated by the police spray, became the new symbol of the opposition battle. For many militants, sitting at the table with Edi Rama's representatives just 48 hours after that incident, seems like a "betrayal" of their sacrifice, being invited to the square to overthrow the government and then sitting with him again at the table as if nothing had happened.
The parliamentary group suggests that boycotting the Territorial Reform would leave the majority free to draw a map that favors them electorally in the upcoming elections.
at 13:00, this will be interpreted as a pragmatic move where the interest in the new "division of the administrative pan" outweighs the struggles of the Democrats. It remains to be seen whether the Democrats will choose to protect "Berisha's eyes" or will try to save what is left of their influence on the map of Albania.
