Former MP Ervin Salianji emphasized that Sali Berisha's personal interest is leading the Democratic Party towards another clash.

Salianji expressed his conviction that he will not withdraw from the race to make the Democratic Party the winner.

Salianji: I will not back down from the battle to make the DP a winner. There are no rules here, this person has usurped a person who has taken something at gunpoint and is holding it hostage. Democrats were made to sign to walk... If I didn't have the responsibility not to create another division, I would do what happened on January 8. I'll do it tomorrow if I love you, I'll do January 8 tomorrow, but we will put some Democrats against some Democrats and this does not honor anyone. But Berisha's personal interest prevails and this is leading the DP to another clash. Berisha is not the DP, he is the hostage-taker of the DP today. A person told me that he had a party for the circumcision of a boy and there were more people there than at the DP protests", he said.