DP leader Sali Berisha has accused Prime Minister Edi Rama of stealing the May 11 elections, collaborating with gangs and corruption.
At his meeting held in Elbasan, Berisha called for a reaction against the regime, while adding that the DP's battle will not stop until the regime is overthrown and the Democratic Party wins.
"I call on citizens to prepare for the most powerful revolts the country has ever known. Among us there are tired, bored, dissatisfied people. We will start a battle that will not stop until the overthrow of this regime and the victory of the Democratic Party," he said.
Part of Berisha's speech:
They continued to steal our name, to steal our flag. They failed because we stood. They failed because we didn't give up. They divided us, we united.
These are true.
Why am I stopping here on this story? Yes. We have a story. And our story, if summed up in one word, is; Undefeated.
Invincible.
Invincible.
We have proven this. We have proven this. The elections are coming.
Friends, for every democrat, every citizen supporting the Democratic Party and the opposition, I have only one prayer: Sali Berisha has repeatedly, not once, but dozens and dozens of times, declared two things to you.
With Edi Rama, there is no choice.
Never.
With Edi Rama, there is no choice.
As I solemnly pledge, I will protect your vote. As for what the elections were, I invite every voter, every elector of this blessed city and this district, to ask themselves this: Can those in which the state mobilizes all its resources, its potential in the electoral race, be called elections?
Can elections be called such when the state organizes 4530 activities to influence citizens in their vote, during a period prohibited by law. All with taxpayers' money, including the 'Giro D'Italia' on voting day with 7 million euros. Private organization.
Can we call these elections elections in which the son of Kristaq Rama, who signed the hanging of the dissident poet, arrested in the election year as persons under investigation without any charges, the leaders of the two main opposition parties and the third party were put under criminal prosecution, for a case that was tried and retried 15 years ago?
So if you take an opposition decapitated and take it to elections, can you imagine talking about elections?
Can elections be called those in which you distributed 100 euros to 760 pensioners in the middle of the campaign, using your taxpayer money to buy votes?
Can elections be called those in which, in order to grab votes, all fines and interest are forgiven, which are now proven to have amounted to 2 billion euros?
Now it turns out that back then, we didn't know and I said 200 million. No, it's 2 billion. And 205,000 businesses benefited, of which 84,000 were active.
And this was done two days before the vote.
Can we call them elections, elections in which Edi Rama, the employees we pay with our taxes, turns into electoral police, into electoral terrorists?
Everything I'm saying is sanctioned in international reports. Tens of thousands of employees, various pressures.
Can it be called an election when the government uses the entire force of the executive branch, with tens of thousands of temporary jobs, construction permits, property certificates, legalization permits, etc., etc., to get votes?
Can it be called an election when the government, when the government, licenses the planting of 28,000 hectares of drugs. At a time when, according to the terrain, a cannabis plant is valued at 1000 euros. Can it be called an election?
I tell you one thing, friends, for a nation, there is nothing in the world more serious than voting, than elections. There is no other process that determines its fate, as elections do, which is why I am stopping.
Can the replacement of the drug cartels in Durrës, the Troplini in Elbasan, the Bajri in Shkodër, with their billions, be called elections?
