Democratic Party MP Besart Xhaferri has explained why he joined the "Albania Becomes" protest in front of the Prime Minister's Office.
In a reaction on social media, Xhaferri said that he will be "at every protest where there is no opposition to the opposition, but there is opposition to Edvin Kulla and his gang of thieves and traffickers!"
"Today, as a member of the Albanian Parliament, I joined the protest of the "Albania Becomes" party, because it is a protest against the man who turned Albania into a narco-state, where votes are stolen, drug cartels flourish, and where youth flee from sight, never to return."
Just as activists of this political force have become part of our protests, I too chose to be in the square today to show that the Democratic Party is open to new forces that have decided not to oppose the opposition, but to oppose a regime that is kept afloat by drug cartels, which invest so that rotation does not occur in this country.
The Albanian opposition does not have the luxury of fighting dividedly against a regime whose removal is a national emergency.
"From today's protest, I call on Albanians to come out en masse in the national protest on February 10, which will mark the beginning of the end of the drug regime!" Xhaferri writes on social media.