The leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, has stated that the DP will win the May 11 elections by a landslide, writes A2 CNN.
Berisha made the comments during his speech at a meeting with local elected officials, mayors and municipal councilors of the Democratic Party.
Berisha said that when the DP managed to receive around 600,000 votes in 2023, even though it was without a seal and without commissioners, this, according to him, shows that these elections will be won by the opposition.
Excerpt from Berisha's speech:
Good evening and a heartfelt greeting to you here, but also to all the DP councilors, its local governors, the voters, those who voted for you, and I wish you from the bottom of my heart a year full of goodness, health and victory on the coming May 11th.
As the institutional fiber of power, alongside parliament, our local councilors and governors are extremely important institutions of the opposition and the DP.
With your election as local government leaders and councilors, a major step was marked in two aspects.
The DP corrected the fatal mistake it made with the 2019 local elections, but on the other hand, the DP accomplished or accomplished the unimaginable.
In what sense? In the truest sense of the word. In the elections of May 14, 2023, we entered the elections without a seal, without a flag, without the name of the mayor on the ballot, without a single penny of funding. Without our representatives on half of the counting commissions.
And we, as the opposition, received 600,000 votes, hundreds of thousands of councilors. We also won several of the country's municipalities.
So, the elections that were predicted to be the final elimination of the opposition as an electoral factor, in fact, Albanians proved the opposite.
Very difficult, despite the government's deceptive propaganda, but I tell you that it is very difficult to find such a case in history, where a political force, deprived of all this, achieves a result that we achieved on May 14th.
At a time when the narco-government used every kind of mechanism, used the criminal electoral state and its gangs, used deceptive propaganda, all of this, but over 600 thousand Albanian voters voted against it.
Why do I stop at this analysis?
I pause in this analysis first to express my deepest conviction that today the political force, which in those conditions, added to the deepest, most undeserved isolation, managed to get 600 thousand votes from Albanians, will be a political force of a profound victory in these elections. A deserved victory.
There was nothing more impossible than to be voted for by 600,000 Albanians under conditions of total discrimination, of true bandit terror, of a criminal electoral state, of the most brutal acts, with lists, gangs, patronage groups, activists, etc.
In the electoral history of this country, it will remain the electoral surprise of the DP and the opposition. (A2 Televizion)