Protests in the country/ Former MP: There are people with an agenda, there is an Islamic segment

2026-06-19 07:35:00, Aktualitet CNA

Protests in the country/ Former MP: There are people with an agenda, there is an

Former Democratic Party MP Fatbardh Kadilli, invited to the "Noë" show with Erla Mëhilli, spoke about the protests in the country over the past few days.

Kadilli said that in this protest there are people with an agenda, there are left-wing radicals and for the first time there is political Islam.

For Kadilli, the protest is one of the healthiest things happening in the country, but its narrowing and radicalization is turning it into a typical protest of political parties.

The politician said that a leader of a small party cannot be told that he has no right to participate or not be allowed to speak, then the protest turns into an extreme leftist agenda.

" There are people with an agenda here, there are left-wing radicals, there is an Islamic segment. For the first time you have political Islam becoming part of the accepted narrative. These are things that, if the numbers drop, if those who control who speaks and who does not speak, narrow the space and become selective, of the type "you can be in protest, this other one has no right to be in protest". It happened, so I'm saying, let's say things, not just say the beautiful part of the protest. Not just those children who paint over there, which is not good to be used, but I still call it the beautiful part. Not just the decor with the fake flamingos, which is the beautiful part. Not just pluralism, which I said is beautiful and the healthiest thing that happens is what happens there. Now, if we want to understand what is happening, Albanian society needs that thing, but it needs to expand, not radicalize and narrow.

But if it narrows and turns violent, it imitates something that I don't like, which is the typical protest of the parties. I am saying these criticisms so that even those who are inside, who don't understand what is happening, that 95% without an agenda, just as pluralistic, understand that it should not narrow down. You cannot tell the leader of a small or large party "you have no right to come here". Why is a leader of a small party not given the floor? If this turns into radicalism with an agenda of the extreme left, it worries me. If I see it, I read it politically: "Rama in prison, Berisha in prison", I read it politically. Radicalization of this nature is the biggest threat and trap that this protest can fall into. And it would be the biggest betrayal towards those 95% who are honest, have no immediate intention of gaining anything from the protest, they want a change. People are also coming from abroad, they have come in droves because they want change, they don't want jobs from the government or the ruling party.

"In this regard, I believe that the biggest risk of this protest is radicalization and reduction. I would like those who lead this protest to understand that they cannot do this alone ," he said.