That 46 days of protests are an unprecedented political event in 35 years of transition, everyone agrees on this. Those who organize them, those who support them, and also those who oppose or stigmatize them. Those of 1990-1991 lasted only a few days until they achieved the goal of launching the era of pluralism and the early elections of March 31 and 22. While the protests of '97 lasted a few weeks until the formation of the National Reconciliation government. And despite the different situations, the essence has been the same. A clash of citizens with dictatorial and semi-autocratic governments for freedom. And in both cases, the protests won and the governments lost. Why? Because the demand for freedom is noble, legitimate and right for a European society and people. And this ongoing demand, the current political elite (for the sake of truth, over 30 years old) has been challenging since 2008 with concentration of power, strengthening of the government, control over the market, rampant corruption, and worse still, criminalization of the economy.

All of these taken together have confronted the honest people of this country with a monster that suffocates individual political and economic freedom. They have further taken away governance from the people's hands, from local government to independent institutions. But in the meantime, they have left citizens without opposition, the only political tool that society has to maintain democratic self-regulation.

Albania in the last 18 years has been sliding inexorably towards a monarchy without a king and a feudalism without landowners. Or worse, towards a “Far West” without cowboys and sheriffs. In short, a system of injustices spread horizontally and vertically throughout the public space. Space that protesters are seeking to reclaim from the squares and streets for as long as all institutional and political means have been exhausted. In any democratic doctrine, this remains the only way for society to be more just, balanced and democratic. This was neither more nor less the epochal aspiration of the peaceful revolution of 1990 and, despite the high cost, the demand for a return to the same principles in 1997.

In other words, there is nothing new in what is happening on Dëshmorët e Kombit Boulevard. The form has changed but not the content. The only frustrating thing is why Albanians ended up in the squares 3 times in 36 years! And there is an explanation for this. Albanian society is trying to catch up on the lost time of the last 2 centuries in just 36 years. Albanian time has been “zipped”.

But if the squares are filled for the more than legitimate reasons mentioned above, the elite resists by using all kinds of techniques to discourage protests. Sometimes with government disinformation from imaginary agencies, sometimes with the opposition, from agreeing to foreign investments to the failed attempt to infiltrate the protest, or even with the use of force, not to mention the media mercenaries who have never been absent in this country. They have left nothing untried to undo the protests.

And again the boulevard is filled every day with the peak of the march, and every time the protest turns into a national one, the participation increases in a way that is perverse for the oligarchy and its own cronies. In this game of nerves between the protesters and the elite, nervousness has clearly become an inseparable part of the government. For one reason: they are on the wrong side of history. And it cannot be otherwise when the only thing that holds them together is power, which in itself is neither a lofty nor legitimate goal. Power is a common instinct for domination over others. And specifically over the majority of society. Power as an end in itself is only worth a minority that exercises it and a larger minority around it that serves it. But they are not and cannot be a majority.

And for this reason, as Machiavelli advises: "If the Prince must choose between politicians and the people, he should choose the people because they are more numerous and do not envy the Prince." Rama has done the opposite. He has chosen Berisha and his partners who serve him in abuse, challenging the people who carry strength in numbers. So, in addition to being morally in the wrong position, Rama has also made the second biggest mistake. The pragmatic one.

Therefore, this clash between the protest and the dome is destined to have a winner. The protesters, because they are right and because they are also the majority. It is enough to see the negative comments on the social media pages of Rama and his followers on the one hand and the spectacular participation in the national protests on the other, to understand that this story has only one meaning. That of the victory of the citizens. The citizens in the square do not use lobbying or pay millions of euros to stop justice from acting.

But they have only two winning weapons. The right and the force. The first is proven, the second will depend on the elite. If they look for it, they will find it. As the folklore of Labëria says, "don't blindfold a cat and hit it with a stick, or it will gouge your eyes out"!