Analyst Andi Bushati, speaking on the program “Të Paekspozuarit” on Vizion Plus, stated that the DP still does not understand what has happened in Albanian society since the start of the flamingo protests, and that the idea of nominating a candidate like Alimehmeti for Tirana shows the mustiness of this party.
Bushati said that if the DP nominates candidates from within its own ranks, it has no chance and risks fading away like the opposition in Hungary and Serbia.
“I think the DP is showing a great misunderstanding, that it has not understood at all what has been happening in Albania these 6 months. The name of a respected doctor, Alimehmeti, is being floated. And in the musty mentality of the DP, it seems as if the DP is opening up to its own moderates, has done society a favor. Today the DP’s moderates seem unacceptable to society, which has outgrown the old opposition with the flamingo revolution.
So, for the DP not to have the musty mentality of the beginning of the revolution of the flamingos, when it said they are Soros-backed people who want to prevent the largest investment in Albania, we are for the genders and not for the protest, so that it is not in the same mentality, the DP should not open up to Dr. Alimehmeti, but should propose figures of the protest; there are plenty of doctors, engineers, people who have led the protests and demonstrations. If the DP does not know how to open up to the development that society has produced, it risks ending up like Orbán’s opposition in Hungary or Vučić’s in Serbia, which were utterly annihilated.
Binaj has every right to run. I did not have much sympathy for him even when he ran, but I think that in a situation that could precipitate by 9 May, Binaj too could rise above the DP’s candidate, if the DP remains closed within its tower.
I am not saying they should take someone from the protest, because the protests are not like the student plenums in Serbia. But if the DP, which finds it very difficult, but if the DP puts forward as the icon of its campaign someone who has the identity of the people of the protest, and they see them as one of their own and not as one of the old power, this could bring about a change. This requires the DP not to bring in a person who will later obey Saliu and the Flag. Only if the DP is ready to make this self-sacrifice can it have some kind of success. Otherwise it will have the fate of the oppositions in Serbia and Hungary. To serve those citizens who were with the protest, someone like them.
If the DP says I will sacrifice myself and will not put forward a candidate with a party card, I will take people from this revolution, only this can make it acceptable to the citizens”, Bushati stated.