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Increased vigilance by Taulant Balla and his Democrat cousin for the DP elections
2026-05-18 12:45:50 / IDE
Two people are really more interested in the elections in the Democratic Party. One is the number two of the Socialist Party, Taulant Balla , and the other is his distant cousin from Librazhd, Helidon Balla. Taulant is known to everyone. While Helidon, although not so well known, is a democrat from the first hours. He is so early, that he proudly says that he joined the Democratic Party before the party was founded.
On the wall of the house there are three photographs: one of Skanderbeg, one of Azem Hajdari, and one of Dr. Sali Berisha in a white overcoat from 1992, where the doctor looked like he was coming from the Textile Combine and not from a NATO meeting.
Helidoni, or Doni as he is called in the village, had never missed a single protest, a single rally, a single speech. He had even participated in protests that had not yet been organized. He had a strange political intuition: as soon as he saw the doctor on TV raise his voice, he would take his blue scarf and go out to the center of Librazhd “just in case.”
But this time the trouble was great.
The party had announced elections for chairman.
And this was precisely what had plunged Don into deep anxiety.
— What if he doesn't win? — he asked quietly in the cafe, looking around suspiciously.
The tablemates looked at him in surprise.
— But against whom, did you take Helidon?
— I don't know about politics! — he replied gravely. — Politics is like the weather in Librazhd. The sun comes out, it hails.
He hadn't slept well for three nights. His wife, Zyhrija, found him at two in the morning in the kitchen counting delegates with beans.
"What are you doing like that, crazy?" he asked.
— Yes, there is only one candidate!
— Flamur doesn't trust... why do you trust that other doctor, Alimehmeti? Flamur Noka and Ilir Alimehmeti are both doctors. They definitely want to stage a coup against the great doctor — said Helidoni, looking at his wife with amusement at the frivolity she was showing.
The next day he went out into the city looking gloomy. In his hand he held a small pad on which he had written with a pen:
MEASURES FOR THE DOCTOR'S SURE VICTORY.
Protect the ballot boxes from infiltration by the internal enemy.
At this point, he calmed down a bit when he read the circular that came from the center, which indicated that candidate Sali Berisha would assign one person to each polling center to guard the votes.
This pen work was dangerous. He had a kind of fear left over from the time when Mehmet Shehu wanted to kill Comrade Enver with a cane-pistol. He had also heard of the use of umbrella-pistols on January 21, when Dr. Berisha had defended the fence of the Prime Minister's Office with unparalleled heroism.
"Abstention from negligence should not be permitted."
At the local party branch, Helidoni requested an urgent meeting.
"We need mobilization!" he said. "We can't take it lightly."
The local mayor was quietly drinking a macchiato.
"Hey Flori," he said half-mockingly, "there's only the doctor in the race."
— Even worse! — he exploded. — This lowers your alertness!
"Don't worry," the head of the local branch of the Democratic Party told him, "measures have been taken. The center has decided that in addition to the Democrats who are on the lists, those who are not on the lists but have a party affiliation will also be able to vote."
Helidon felt a sense of relief.
In the days that followed, a feverish awareness campaign began. He knocked on door after door.
— Say it with conviction! — he shouted — Democracy requires determination!
He decided to stand as a volunteer guard near the party headquarters in Librazhd.
Around two in the morning, he saw a black cat pass by the headquarters door.
— Provocation! — he shouted.
He immediately notified the center. On the other hand, Flamur on the phone told him to take measures so that this would not happen again. Meanwhile, the doctor was going to appear at a press conference about this new attempt by the socialists and the mafia to bring evil to the elections. The black cat had not passed in vain.
On the other hand, the lights at the Socialist Party headquarters were still on. Taulant was preparing the latest report on the Democratic Party elections for his boss. The news about the black cat that had passed in front of the Democratic Party headquarters hit him like a bomb. He picked up the phone and called the local SP chairman directly:
The order is clear, he said, no black cat should pass in front of the DP offices. No sign that would demoralize Dr. Berisha's followers. Keep in mind, he said, that a landslide victory for Dr. Berisha in the internal DP elections is the greatest guarantee that we will get a sixth mandate.
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Molotov cocktail on Saturday, shopping on Thursday!
Nga Bato Kosova
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