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Will Berisha take stock of the first in his second speech?
2025-12-06 14:29:07 / IDE
The Democratic Party has never in its history conducted a serious analysis of the internal reasons for its losses. Of which there are more than the Socialist Party. Be it parliamentary or local.
The only notable attempt dates back to the summer of 1992, when a group of leaders and deputies presented to the National Council an extensive analysis of the plunge by over twenty percent of the proportional vote just three or four months after the plebiscite victory of March 22. The analysis, called a "motion," was presented as an invitation to discussion at the highest forum of the Party. Instead of a debate, Berisha improvised within a week a National Assembly of rally-goers, under whose cries he carried out the expulsion from the Party of the motion-makers and their supporters.
The shadow of that day's purge in the Palace of Culture remained over the DP's head like the sword of Damocles even when the relationships of Neritan Ceka, Gramoz Pashko, Arben Imami, Arben Demeti and several other motionists recognized, in new political contexts, periods of return to the party. The truth is that the schisms and departures from the DP have continued unabated even after 1992. But it has very rarely happened that the defectors presented exhaustive analyses in the party forums to answer the fundamental question: Why did we lose? This type of discussion has always focused on electoral irregularities and manipulations by socialist governments. Very little or nothing on the reasons related to the party's shortcomings and internal causes, which have been as evident as the electoral irregularities. The DP has even gone so far as to wash its face after losing elections it organized itself, thus depriving itself of the renewal that losses dictate.
The same thing, as far as can be seen, is expected to happen with the heavy defeat in this year's parliamentary elections. A good day begins in the morning, as the popular saying goes. At the first meeting, of what is being called Berisha's Platform Number 2, nothing important was heard that warrants analysis. It is possible that the meeting in Mirdita was organized in a hurry, as a one-on-one response to the meeting held in Durres by Alimehmeti, Salianji and some of the candidates most voted for by the membership. Let's see at the other meetings. Platform 2 will have meaning and value primarily by analyzing the promises of the first platform. What was achieved and what remained as chatter?
The Democrats remember them. Berisha lured them with the project of Re-establishing the DP on the principle of vote and diversity, of primaries, of sanctioning currents and factions, of the immediate resignation of the chairman when he loses the elections, and so on. On this basis, he promised a larger, more united party. Above all, he promised victory, the most tempting and mobilizing promise, a word that the Democrats had begun to think of as a forbidden apple. They now know the fate of these promises. No one needs to tell them. It would be the same as mentioning the rope in the house of a hanged man.
The most absurd thing about the populist-demagogic narrative of the Re-establishment has been and still is the part as if Berisha returned to save the Democratic Party from destruction. That is, to save a Party, which, despite the cannonballs of the Basha-Berisha dualism in its feet and the greatest manipulations ever by the SP, achieved one of the highest results in its history in the 2021 elections. Together with the allied party LSI, it was only 37 thousand votes away from the SP. A difference easily recoverable during Rama's third mandate, tainted by corruption affairs already verified through criminal investigation.
How much Berisha saved the party that was close to victory four years ago is shown by the result four years later. The difference between the PD plus SMI and the Socialist Party is 250 thousand votes, counting voters residing in Albania. If the diaspora voters are counted, the difference is around 300 thousand.
The crazy idea that the Party is saved by shrinking is only held by those who live mentally in the ideological bunker of the single party in one-party regimes, where the party loses nothing from punishments, expulsions, exclusions. On the contrary. It is purified, it becomes stronger, according to Leninist-Enverist styles. But this is suicidal in a multi-party democracy. For a center-right party in an open society, other sacred “commandments” operate. As is what Roger Scruton, the famous conservative philosopher, says, according to whom “a political identity is strengthened through disagreements” and the leader’s talent is expressed in the ability to manage coexistence in diversity. Or the other sentence “even if a single person is on the opposite side to us, it is precisely in respect for him and what he says that our system, our right-wing values, stand”. Place this mirror in front of the DP led by Berisha and you will understand how right-wing it is.
The DP has been reduced from top to bottom. In contradictory narratives and futuristic promises to followers, Berisha has clearly packaged his problem with the US, Great Britain and the Albanian judiciary. At least he had solved some of them.
Refusal to reflect is refusal to change. By insisting on not changing, the DP has served its losses as much as its manipulations.
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