On the third Monday, Sali Berisha gathered a handful of Democrats in what he has dubbed “Square 2” in front of the Prime Minister’s Office. The speakers, mostly MPs and ordinary people, delivered now-familiar speeches that focused on the corrupt government, Belinda Balluku and Edi Rama. “We will not leave the square,” said Berisha, who took the floor at the end of the rally that lasted no more than 60 minutes, but which did not ignite a single ray of hope on the first day of December, the month that also marks the 30th anniversary of the creation of the DP and Sali Berisha at the helm of the party. As is the age of some of those who have already been baptized as the group that drinks coffee and wants to challenge Sali Berisha and his cult in the DP.
Their famous coffee shop will apparently be moved to a hall, this time in Durrës, where on Wednesday Ervin Salianji, Ilir Alimehmeti and other young candidates, primary candidates and elected officials of the DP structures, have decided to challenge Sali Berisha in the thirtieth year of leadership of the Democratic Party. This, in fact, would not be the first time that a group has tried to challenge the democratic leader, only this time he is at the lowest historical quotas of the party that is entering its thirteenth year of opposition, while for 4 years the DP has been immersed in a spiral of debates and violence, not only verbal, that have only served Edi Rama.
Wednesday's meeting in Durrës is the first spark of a movement that is expected to bring about a change, or at least light a fire in the gloomy darkness where the DP has been since the ugly event of January 8, 2022. It is difficult to say or predict how events will unfold, but the challenges in a party with a tired racehorse and donkeys following behind to eat the leftover food from the DP's stable are at least a new political development in our political village.
