Prime Minister Edi Rama, also the leader of the Socialist Party, said that the DP primaries proved that the opposition is 'a swamp' led by an 'owl', referring to Sali Berisha, and that the Democrats must open their eyes to remove the latter.
As an example, he brought up the young people of the FRPD in Vlora who abandoned Berisha and joined the socialists.
"I will speak about the barn owl until May 9th, which is also Europe Day, and the end is knocking on the door to hear. Because if you knock on that door, it won't open. I speak about those deaf people who don't see that they don't have a leader, but a barn owl. The very hypocritical, treacherous practice of the primaries showed it very clearly.
How many democrats believed that the day had come for them to be appreciated for who they are, they were disappointed that they were used for hypocritical propaganda and were left out. Their symbol is the winner of the Tirana primaries, the chairman of the Tirana Party who I don't even know and I have no doubt that he is against me, but he won and they threw him out.
He came first and is nowhere to be found on the list. This was voted for by the girls and boys of the Vlora PD youth forum who massively broke away and joined me and have a person who represents them, the pedagogue Zamira, to achieve a much greater goal. They are not socialists, they may never become socialists, but they are part of us. The Albania we want in the EU is beyond divisions, divisions and ideologies," said Rama.