TIRANA, December 18/ATA/ Chairman of the Democratic Party Sali Berisha said today at the “Violated Rights” forum that Albania’s most contested issues remain justice and the functioning of institutions.
Berisha said that, “The real, the current Albania is included in the classification of totalitarian regimes. This classification is made by a historian and philosopher, conservative sociologist among the most prominent of all times, Huntington. This is a gang dictatorship, the worst form of dictatorships”.
Berisha emphasized that, “Present-day Albania is a country where all powers are concentrated in the hands of one man and there is no question about it. Today, the courts and the special prosecution are as political as in the darkest time of Enver Hoxha. But, as a matter of fact, in Hoxha’s time they were implementing a law that read that if you were speaking against the party, you will be sentenced to so many years in prison; if you were preaching religious faith, you will be sentenced to so many years”.
The chairman of the DP emphasized that the “Violated Rights” forum is gathering for the problem of rights and values in a society. “Freedom of speech, we are talking about it here. Some others are also speaking, but most of those who speak against the godfather, leave their mandate and go to prison like Ervin Salianji did or are barbarically dragged in the middle of the street, despite having been president of the republic, prime minister, speaker of parliament and despite above all that dragging in the street can never happen in a country where there is law and the Constitution and that no person can be arrested while being under investigation. It is a dictatorship because it uses all the ugly mechanisms of fear. Dictatorship is a kingdom of fear”, said Berisha. According to Berisha, the institutions in Tirana do not function, while in the districts they are formal. “Real artists are fought. The undermining of the theater was the ugliest symbol of this. But, just as ugly is Edi Rama’s speech in government in defense of Nero who blew up the theater. He did very well to remove him, he says, with unimaginable hatred. “It is very true that political persecution is a process that must be re-dimensioned in the national consciousness,” Berisha said. /j.p/p.s./
