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2026-07-18 20:22:18 / IDE
By Ermal Peçi
The roots of what is happening today in the Democratic Party and in Albanian politics must be sought in 2021. It was that moment when the real clash within the DP showed that the party had fewer politicians than it claimed and many more cowards, bargainers, and people who changed their faces according to interest.
The clash within the DP had at least one good thing: Everyone showed their true colors. The masks fell off and it became harder to hide behind fabricated political lives.
The party was divided between those who supported Lulzim Basha's decision against Sali Berisha and those who supported Berisha in his battle against SPAK and the United States' non grata decision.
But, between these two groups, the saddest characters of this story also appeared: People without character, pragmatists without principles, political bargainers, and those who thought they could profit like snails, clinging to whoever seemed to have the most chance of giving them a chair.
These are the cowards of politics.
For a long time, these cowards have been attacking Flamur Noka, after he was re-elected as the number two of the Democratic Party.
In fact, in that group, Noka is among the most sincere. Not because he is necessarily the best, but because he knows his role. He knows his position. He knows where he stands and who he obeys, and in politics and in life, knowing where you stand is very important.
Flamur Noka carries out Sali Berisha's orders. This is not a secret. There is no need to pretend that there is a "mulism" in the DP, as if Noka is an autonomous center of power that decides everything on its own. He is part of Berisha's structure and acts in accordance with his political line. Therefore, when Noka is attacked for "mulism", we are often dealing with pure hypocrisy. Those who attack him do not have the courage to attack Berisha and this is the funniest part of this story: People who expect change, but do not have the courage to demand change; people who talk about democracy, but remain silent in the face of the leader; people who want a new future, but continue to live politically in the courtyard of the past.
It seems that the promise of the "last kilometer", repeated for years in every television studio by Sali Berisha and his most ardent supporters, has ended in what today can be called his last fortress.
For years, the Berisha-led opposition has lived with the idea that victory was always just a few steps away. Even when elections were lost, even when protests failed to produce the promised change, even when the opposition lost political ground, the answer was always the same:
Today, after so many years, that kilometer seems to have been transformed into a fortress. A fortress where Berisha continues to stand, surrounded by his loyalists, trying to convince himself and others that the great battle is still ahead.
Berisha's last stronghold is not just a political place. It's a mentality built to live in a stronghold.
A fortress that should serve to protect against SPAK.
Inside it stands Berisha, facing justice files, while next to him stand people like Flamur Noka, who has also faced SPAK issues, and while this fortress is fortified against justice, it seems to have closed itself off to the world. It is no coincidence that foreign ambassadors no longer visit Berisha's office.
This is Berisha's last fortress: surrounded by SPAK, isolated from the world, and kept afloat by people who still believe that the great battle lies ahead.
But castles have a problem: when the gates are closed, no one knows whether they were built to keep enemies out or to keep those who remain inside.
Maybe, in the end, this castle won't protect everyone but it can contain them.
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