The deputy of the Democratic Party, Lefter Gështenja, part of Enkelejd Alibeaj's group, has declared that he will participate in the protest of February 11 called by Sali Berisha.
Gëshetnja said on Panorama TV that the protest is a means of pressure on the government, stressing that it must be unstoppable to remove Prime Minister Edi Rama from power.
"I don't know how to speak for others. I am not a spokesperson for the group. Personally, as you have followed in the media, for as long as I have been in the opposition, I have been active in all protests. I have not hidden any protest from anyone that has been carried out against the government. I have not always been on the front line. I will stand against this regime. DP, at least in these 8 years of governing by this majority, has made grand protests, strong protests. The fact has shown that Rama did not run away with protests. Protest is a means of pressure. I would like that if we have an unstoppable protest it would be a way to remove the government. We have tried to realize such but they have not always been successful. Today as we speak a good portion of the people who have left have been Democrats. I probably have a problem with telling things like they are. Today in Albania there is no democracy because in a normal country if this scandal had not happened at all, simply because so many Albanians have left, the prime minister of a country should leave", he declared.
Gëshetnja also spoke about the court's decision on the seal of the Democratic Party, stressing that he and most of the deputies will accept it, regardless of whether it will be in their favor or not.
"We must work to change a different model than the one that has governed the country in these years. We will accept any decision of the court, Albanian politics should learn from this model. He must accept the decision of justice. Either we recognize justice as an arbiter or we don't, there is no middle ground. I believe that a good part of the parliamentary group has the same attitude", said Gështenja.