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2023-12-11 19:39:00, Politikë CNA

Meeting on the occasion of the 33rd anniversary of the establishment of the DP

Former Prime Minister Sali Berisha in his speech at the organization held on the occasion of the 33rd anniversary of the founding of the Democratic Party made a summary of what this party has gone through over the years and of those who have supported this party.

For Berisha, the most difficult years for Democrats were the years 2013-2021.

As for the beginnings of this political force, Berisha said that it was founded as the first party in ex-communist Europe that sought membership in NATO.

"DP was founded as the first party in ex-communist Europe to seek NATO membership. Other parties were founded, but in their first statements, they sought outside the blocs, neither Warsaw nor NATO. Whereas we directly joined NATO and managed to realize this great dream of the Albanians. We managed to join the Council of Europe. We managed to move freely. We managed to increase per capita income perhaps like no other country in market conditions. We managed to get out of the third lowest country in the world next to Uganda and Angola in the group of upper middle income countries." , said Berisha.

He says that after that we managed to make Albania a livable country.

"We managed to make Albania a livable country, a country in which the population grew from year to year, and even hundreds of thousands of Albanian families returned from emigration. This is the legacy of every democrat, of every democrat, this is the contribution they gave to this country, each of you and hundreds and thousands of others who are not here today. a party of extraordinary vitality. Remember the year 1997, how we were torn apart. But remember the years after that how we rose beyond any kind of prediction. We came back and undertook the reforms I mentioned," he said.

Berisha says that the drama that Albania is experiencing today has its roots precisely in the transformation of the DP leadership from a courageous and idealistic leadership to a shameful bargaining leadership.

"The heaviest, most difficult years for you democrats were the years '13-'21. Today I was talking with a colleague of mine and he tells me that I don't understand, the democrats I meet tell us that we supported Lulzim Basha because of the Doctor. I tell him that this is absolutely true and everyone who says this is telling the truth. I don't want to stop, but the drama that Albania is experiencing today has its roots precisely in the transformation of the PD leadership from a courageous and idealistic leadership to a shameful bargaining leadership. Amoral bargains. And she was driving this wonderful political force to its de facto moral extinction. Towards her transfiguration into a force that was not supposed to exist. She did not protect the interests of the opposition people, but she did not protect the national interest." , Berisha added./ CNA