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Sali is gone, Rama is gone.
2026-06-21 12:17:29 / EDITORIAL
For years, Edi Rama and Sali Berisha have been portrayed as sworn opponents. In reality, they have been the greatest guarantee of each other's political survival. Every time one weakens, the other is revived. Every time citizens demand change, politics returns to the Rama-Berisha duel.
That's why Rama did everything to bring Berisha back to the stage in his darkest days. That's why Belinda Balluku's sister-in-law gave him the stamp of the DP, that's why the high court is holding up a trial for this scandalous decision. Because Sali Berisha is needed by Rama as a crutch, on which he has relied his fate.
Both have defied protests, both have ignored civic anger, and both have built a system where power thrives on fear of the alternative. As long as one exists, the other uses it as an alibi for its own failures.
But there is an even greater fear that unites them: The fear of the truth that may emerge from the files of corruption, organized crime, and money laundering.
The latest SPAK files have revealed a shocking picture. According to the investigations, the criminal organization led by Alfredo Hamzai and Luçiano Koçeku allegedly built a sophisticated mechanism that started with the international trafficking of cocaine from Latin America, continued with the generation of millions of euros in profits and ended with their investment in the economy through construction, tourist residences, hotels, companies and real estate.
According to SPAK, over 128 million euros in assets were seized in this operation, while hundreds of bank accounts, villas, apartments, land, companies and luxury vehicles were placed under seizure. In another operation, investigators have documented a network that allegedly trafficked dozens of tons of cocaine and invested the profits in the construction, hotel and real estate sectors, with seized assets amounting to around 150 million euros.
The most alarming element is not just the drug trade. It is the way in which suspected criminal money infiltrates the formal economy, into towers, resorts, hotels and construction projects. It is precisely where politics has given permission, approved development plans and turned a blind eye to questions that should not have remained unanswered.
So the question is not just who brought this money. The question is who allowed it to be laundered.
If Albania has become an attractive destination for capital of dubious origin, this could not have happened without political support, without institutional silence and without a system that preferred to look the other way. The fingerprints of Rama and Berisha are there. The latter's family members have been rumored to be connected to these elements in construction and business.
This is why the money laundering files scare both Rama and Berisha. Because the traces of these affairs do not stop at businessmen, builders or companies. They lead to political decision-making. And the more these schemes are revealed, the clearer it becomes that the real battle is not between Rama and Berisha, but between an Albania captured by the personal interests of Rama and Berisha and an Albania that seeks justice.
Albanians no longer need another chapter of the Rama-Berisha theater. They need the closure of this chapter. Because the removal of one figure without the removal of the model that the other represents does not bring about change.
Therefore, the call is not simply "Go Rama" or "Go Berisha". The call is: Go Sali, down with Rama. Down with the system that has kept them both afloat and that has held Albania hostage for more than 30 years. /Alfapress.al
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