The opposition expects a massive participation of youth in the
anti-government protest on February 20th in Tirana. The Democratic Party
leader, Lulzim Basha, expressed his conviction that youth will join
this protest. He said that the highest membership in the Democratic
Party comes from youth.
“The stronger the unilateralism of this government hits the columns of the rule of law and democracy, the more massively will youth join the Democratic Party and the opposition. The more crisis hits and deteriorates the life of Albanian citizens, the stronger youth will rise for stopping the evil, with the conviction that there is no time to lose and that we will not leave time to the evil”, Basha declared.
The February 20th protest doesn’t mean that the Democratic Party will abandon the Parliament. On the contrary, the Parliament will be one of the ways of confrontation between the rule of law and what the Democratic Party leader calls oligarky.
“We will continue this for as long as this will be our last resort in Parliament and the public space for promoting and developing our values as the political force of freedom, development and integration of our country in Europe. But it is clear that the course of our opponents, Rama and Meta, has dictated a battle for existence for the democracy of European standars. We are determined to continue this battle until the end, at any price. This is our battle and we will not cede a single millimeter”, Basha declared.
No decision has been taken so far for any other protest rather than that of February 20th, but no one would be surprised if protests will turn in the first political instrument of the Democratic Party. Mr.Basha warned the government that from this depends their behavior for reestablishing consensus, which, according to the opposition leader, has been undermined once again by the majority with the changes of the Civil Employee law. This means that the Democratic Party has not changed opinion about their participation in the commission of the territorial administrative reform.
“We want to make it clear that today they don’t have the numbers for voting such a reform. They only have the numbers of their bazaar negotiations, which only makes their unilateral guilt even bigger in a reform that tradition and the European standards demand to be all-inclusive. They wait for us in vain, if they will not resolve the voting of this reform with consensus, and for establishing consensus in general. Without this solution, we will wait for them with our constitution in our hand, in the squares and streets of protest, with a strong popular opposition”, Basha declared.
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