"I believe I will return to power", Berisha: Non-grata was a bolt from the blue!

2025-12-26 22:06:02Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
"I believe I will return to power", Berisha: Non-grata was a bolt from
Sali Berisha

DP leader Sali Berisha recounted his life from childhood to his third return to politics on Floriana Garo's "Elevate" podcast.

Berisha, looking back at his earlier years in politics, said that in 1997 he was overthrown from power by a communist rebellion, people whom he defeated, he added, with a free vote in 2005. Berisha believes that he will still do the same with a third return to power, but with a free vote.

Speaking about 2021, the then-Democratic leader, who was elected to Congress, said that the US non-grata through former Secretary of State Blinken was a bolt from the blue.

Further, Berisha said that the turning point for his return was the request to not allow him to enter parliament.

Berisha now said that the Democrats and he succeeded in their just cause and will succeed in returning to power.

Berisha: Those who came with rebellion were expelled with a free vote. I came with a program that changed Albania. I felt committed. I would continue the reform. I had believed, as I still believe today. Of course, let them hold free elections and see who wins. Only mission. My ministers, mission. Governance is a mission. NATO membership, mission. Infrastructure, mission. We even expelled the dictator with a vote. Why did I stay? On December 13, I said goodbye. I will remain a friend of the DP and all night I thought that I made a mistake that I should stay with Kosovo.

I wrote every day. Facebook was my newspaper. And I was involved with it. I used it. I read. Of course I wrote some memoirs but I'm not a fan of autobiographies. There's something.

I had lived in a dictatorship, one of the lessons was that staying in a chair for a long time is not useful for the country. I still think about it today. I resigned. Without any great regrets. I thought I fulfilled my duty.

It was a bolt from the blue. Rama had told me that you were being censored, that you had exposed a conspiracy against US foreign policy. The decision was about corruption and undermining democracy. It was a grave insult to my dignity. It was a battle for my dignity. When they asked me not to enter parliament. what they could not do. When in a rage, Yuri Kim did everything to control Lulzim Basha as party leader. This could not happen. We were placed in unprecedented isolation. By corrupt European and global bureaucrats. We succeeded and we will succeed. It is a just cause.

To be successful you need to have morals and empathy. Outside of morals and empathy I have a hard time thinking. You can be successful but you will be a big problem.

 

 


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