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Dangerous precedent in the Protest: The DP's Justice Department and the provocateurs are not the same as ordinary democrats!
2026-06-09 21:58:45 / POLITIKË
By Ardi Stefa
Protests may arise to defend democracy, but if they lose their compass, they can become a threat to the very democracy they claim to defend.
The cries heard from some of the protesters, such as “Opposition sold out!”, are not simply cries of anger. They carry a dangerous potential. At best, they can produce clashes and violence between citizens who share the same dissatisfaction with the government. At worst, they can lead to the gradual isolation of the protest, its contraction and, ultimately, to the preservation of the status quo, which the protesters claim they want to change.
It is true that today in Albania there seem to be two oppositions. One is the traditional opposition, led by Sali Berisha and the political structures that for decades have claimed to represent civic discontent. The other is the new opposition, made up of protesters who demand not simply a rotation of power, but a change of system and the replacement of the political elite that has dominated the Albanian transition.
The clash between these two approaches is natural. The traditional opposition will try to channel the civic revolt towards its political objectives and see it as an opportunity to return to power. But this does not mean that the protest should slide into the logic of exclusion.
No one has a monopoly on protest. No one has a monopoly on democracy. No one has the right to hand out certificates about who should be a real protester and who shouldn't.
When some demand the removal of Democrats from the protest simply because they are Democrats, they are adopting the same logic they claim to be fighting for. If today a citizen is excluded for his political beliefs, tomorrow another may be excluded for his opinion, and the day after that anyone who does not conform to the dominant group's line.
No one should ask ordinary democrats to leave. It can be argued that the leaders of the opposition are sold out, that they have failed, their political direction can be criticized, it can even be said that they have betrayed the causes they have represented. But it is unfair and anti-democratic for this judgment to be extended to thousands of ordinary citizens who share the same dissatisfaction with the government, simply because they are members of a political party. Do not accept the leaders, I completely agree, but ordinary and honest democrats are just as much oppositionists as the protesters of these days.
The moment ordinary opponents identify with their leaders and are intimidated through insults, labels, or public pressure, the protest begins to lose its civic character and is no longer a space of freedom, but a mechanism of exclusion.
And that's where the most dangerous precedent emerges: the degradation of democracy in the name of democracy. In fact, movements that start out demanding freedom but end up excluding those who think differently rarely bring about change. They usually just produce a new version of the same problem.
If protest seeks to be an alternative to the system, it must be more democratic than the system it opposes, not less.
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