Since Ervin Salianji began meetings, first in a narrow circle, and then in halls filled with members and sympathizers dissatisfied with the leadership of the DP, Berisha has responded to him through successive mistakes. Some of them are old and repeated mistakes, while others are new, which are plunging him more and more into a defensive position, not an offensive one. And when you close yourself in defense, psychologically you show fear, helplessness and panic. This is happening as much through Berisha's own fault as through Salianji's merit for coming out into battle at the right time. But what are Berisha's mistakes that are weakening him and strengthening the one who is challenging him? There are several of them. But let's start with the repeated mistakes made by him and even worse by Basha, who apparently borrowed them from his mentor.

First, every time someone in the DP has asked to give up the autocratic leadership of the DP, they have been faced with the Berisha rhetoric of labeling them as “sellouts and traitors”. Since the 1992 Extraordinary Conference where the Motionists were expelled, to continue with Selami, the Pollo group, Topi, and to those who demanded Basha’s removal in 2017 and 2021. The only opponent of the all-powerful president who was not labeled as “sellouts and traitors” was Berisha himself when he organized the Speech against Basha. Paradox of course, but not a coincidence. And for a bit of black humor, Azem Hajdari himself was also part of the first group of “enemies”. Autocrats do not know history because they write it themselves as they want, so they are a hand that stops at nothing. The accusations against Salianji, when it comes to supporting crime in district meetings, are even ridiculous if we don't forget that for Berisha, Salianji was a victim of Rama's regime and a political prisoner. But the day he announced his candidacy, he transformed from a victim into an accomplice of the regime, and from a political convict into an accomplice of the inquisitors.

The second paradox has to do with the violation of the principles that Berisha himself carved into the ice of the 2021 podium, which melted with him. From meritocracy to representation, from career to decentralization of decision-making and above all from resignation in case of loss to welding in the chair in case of defeat. These strange incoherences that you only hear in the DP of hatred for great truths, have made Berisha vulnerable and ridiculous. Because it is one thing to lose like Basha lost and another to disappoint like Berisha is doing. If Basha lied about the victories, Berisha is disappointing with the losses. And in fact, some of those who supported his return thought that history would repeat itself as in 1992 and 2005, forgetting that they were in 2021 and now in 2025. And if space may have limits, time flows without stopping. It simply does not stop and moreover changes the perception of people and events. And if we add that history never repeats itself in an identical way and even worse with the same characters, then the dream of victory of the DP with Berisha at the helm was simply a childish illusion. Therefore, not keeping promises but the reappearance of vices have put the leadership of the DP in a paradoxical situation.

Thirdly, and related to the second reason for Berisha's paradoxicality, the accusation is raised that the Salijanj Movement is sabotaging the battle with the regime, according to Berisha and his followers. As if they have made Rama a disgrace in the elections and there is only one last push left to give him a hard time! This is not a paradox but a mediocre joke. In the four electoral processes in which the DP has participated after 2021, they have lost badly and worse, both the elections at the national level and the partial ones in some municipalities. It must be said that the electoral curve has been declining until the sociopathic plunge of November 9, where Vlora "transformed" with 2.8% of the votes. So, which battle is Berisha talking about? Or the one in the square in front of the prime minister's office, where he competes wheel by wheel with Adriatik Dajko to see who can gather the fewest people. When the DP doesn't even have half of the members of the National Council appear on the podiums on Mondays, not only is it unable to attack Salianji as a "saboteur of the revolution", but it also risks convincing Flamur Noka that this work is over.

The third paradox that most resembles a fat liar has to do with SPAK and the internationals. It is true that Rama is under total attack by justice and a systematic international cold shoulder or blow. But it is equally true that Berisha himself is still on trial for a case like that of the Partizani Club and a couple of other criminal cases like Gërdeci and 21 January are coming his way. Worse still, the paradox deepens in relation to the internationals. As much as it is true about Rama's great loneliness or the financial penalties that are coming to him from the EU for agricultural and Information Technology funds, it is equally true that Berisha remains persona non grata by the USA and Great Britain, despite the much-discussed lobbying. The only "candy" he has thrown into the propaganda market to keep his remaining supporters amused are a couple of memberships and elections in right-wing party forums that are as valuable to the American administration as the grassroots organization of the Krutje cooperative once was.

But the paradoxes do not end here. There is one last and most hallucinatory of all. Salianji's self-exclusion. A term that is not found even in the Albanian-Albanian dictionary and not even in the Statute of the Democratic Party, since the master of the job, namely Salianji, not only has not self-excluded, but he does not intend to exclude Berisha as a serial loser from 2023 onwards.

And last in order, but not in importance, is the composition of the group of Berisha's public lawyers who have launched an attack against Salianja. They are a group of either employees of a media outlet where one shareholder pays the rent, the other the journalists and finally the drivers, or some "hawks" among whom Alfred Lela stands out, whose most heroic act in his career was taking off his pants in front of Rama.

This is enough to understand that the paradoxes with which Berisha has surrounded himself are sufficient arguments for many members and sympathizers of the DP to choose Salijanj's political meetings and not Berisha's coffee shops.