Albania does not need a new bargain, it desperately needs a New Beginning!

2026-06-21 12:45:53 / IDE NGA TAULANDA JUPI
Albania does not need a new bargain, it desperately needs a New Beginning!

Albanians protested yesterday and for 21 days in a row against Edi Rama and Sali Berisha.

Against a trapped political system that has closed off any possibility of movement for the political elite. 

Let's refresh the memory of both those who say Edi Rama has the votes of the citizens, and those who play the role of the opposition in parliament. The political peddlers 

On July 24, 2024, with 104 votes, Edi Rama and Sali Berisha with their cronies joined their votes to approve the new Electoral Code.

Today, the Socialist Party claims to have won 83 mandates. But this is not the whole political reality. In fact, 11 of these mandates are the product of a political bargain made between Edi Rama and Sali Berisha through an electoral code that was built to protect the system, not to open it up.

Those 11 mandates were won at the expense of pluralism, fair competition, and the opening of the system to new political alternatives. They were won at the expense of citizens who demand true representation.

Therefore, today's protest is not simply against a government. It is against a political class that, whenever its interests are affected, forgets party divisions and unites to preserve political power, whether in government or in opposition. 

This is why citizens are no longer just shouting against Rama. They are protesting against a system that produces agreements at the expense of democracy, that closes the doors to young people, to new alternatives, and to any independent voice.

Albania has a systemic crisis.

A system that has become hostage to a political minority, the Rama-Berisha duo and those MPs who raise troops and cooperate whenever they need to protect their privileges and only split when it needs to share power.

That's why citizens are taking to the streets.

Not to replace one name with another, but to put an end to a political model that has taken Albanian democracy hostage.

Because Albania doesn't need a new deal. It needs a new beginning. 

 

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