Thousands of citizens joined the Democratic Party's call for a national protest today, which began in front of the Prime Minister's Office with a lackluster choreography and mediocre speeches, only to be ignited by the speech of President Sali Berisha. "We are in the last kilometer of victory," he said. "On this journey, we rose like a Phoenix from the ashes and from the deepest isolation, reaching the last kilometer as the political force most supported by Albanians and sister parties around the world. We reached the last kilometer after mortally wounding the beast of the narco-dictatorship and proving ourselves the only hope of Albanians," Berisha said.
Before he could leave the podium, Molotov cocktails and fireworks were thrown towards the Prime Minister's Office, marking clashes between protesters and police. A scenario similar to the opposition protests of 2019 continued with tear gas and the protest being moved to the Albanian Parliament. There too, after clashes with the police using tear gas and water, several protesters and officers were injured, while DP deputies raised their voices and demonstrated force against the police.
Like the protests organized by former president Lulzim Basha in 2019, today's one ended at the DP headquarters, with the only difference that Sali Berisha did not sing the anthem, but like his predecessor, he promised that the battle would continue with another protest, until the overthrow of Edi Rama and what he describes as a narco-regime.
