Meeting in Lezhë/ Berisha: PD has a legacy of the transformation of Albania

2025-01-12 12:54:00, Politikë CNA

Meeting in Lezhë/ Berisha: PD has a legacy of the transformation of Albania

The head of the Democrats, Sali Berisha

Former Prime Minister Sali Berisha held a meeting with the PD branch in Lezhë on the occasion of the 34th anniversary of its establishment.

During his speech, Berisha recalled the date when the people of Lezha took it upon themselves to establish Lezha e Beselidhje.

Berisha said that the other political force has a legacy of crime, terrorism and the establishment of dictatorship, but PD has a legacy of transforming Albania from a hyper-collectivist country to a country of free citizens, free initiative, and private property.

He emphasized that the PD inherited the transformation of Albania from a hyper-collectivist country to a country of free citizens, free initiative, and private property.

"We gather today to commemorate a date in which courageous, idealistic Lezhians, in severe conditions of terror, took it upon themselves to establish in Lezha the Covenant, to sign a new covenant, a covenant with democracy, with the highest human values , with freedom, with human dignity, with the national interest.

34 years ago, the party of the noblest ideals of Albanians, the ideals of freedom, the highest values ??of man, family, homeland, faith in God was founded in Lezhë. All these in one way or another excluded by the Stalinist regime of Enver Hoxha for half a century.

34 years ago, the truth is that, history was divided, eras were divided, and we must say, the Albanians who were indoctrinated, were oppressed, had suffered more than any other nation from isolation, from the tyranny of poverty, decided to come out against this regime. In this context each of you should be proud of that heritage. It was a great act of courage.

Only 3 months later from the founding of the DP, I was in Paris at the Summit of the European Democratic Union. At that summit, the communiqué described Enver Hoxha as the post-war Albanian Hitler, while the presence of Sali Berisha, the symbol of what Europe has achieved. Because in the event that in other countries dictatorships fell one after the other, the truth is that for Albania there were not a few who thought, let it remain like Cuba on the shores of the Adriatic, so that others, seeing it, a country hungry, to no longer dream of socialization in Europe.

But this was not the opinion of the students in Tirana, of the democrats of Lezha and all of Albania.

34 years have passed, so of course we must take a look at our legacy. If the other force has inherited crime, terrorism, genocide against Albanians, has inherited the restoration of the dictatorship of drugs, crime and theft, after 30 years on the path to freedom, the DP has inherited the transformation of Albania from a hypercollectivist country into a country of free citizens, free initiative, private property.

From the most isolated country to the open country, to friends all over the world, to a country that joined the Council of Europe, a country that moved towards the EU and joined NATO.

"The DP has another excellent legacy. This legacy consists of the fact that for the first time in centuries, Albania emerged from the group of low-income countries to the group of upper-middle-income countries in 2008 and ended up in 2013 as the country with the best-paid citizens in the region. Better than even two EU member states, Bulgaria and Romania." /CNA