Addressing the campaign rally at Tirana’s “Mother Teresa” square, declared “the start of the battle for victory, the battle for great Albania, in which Albania rises again.”

“Tonight we have come together to solemnly swear to remove Albania from the clutches of this regime,” Berisha stated.

“The last 12 years were years of desolation for Albania by its sons and daughters, years of impoverishment, years in which the Tirana regime and the international mafia did everything to erase from the memory of this nation your immortal work, pluralist Albania,” the opposition leader stated.

According to him, “major achievements in the field of freedom have been erased from the nation’s history in the last 12 years.”

“We gather tonight with a new vision for Albania, with a solemn oath before it to remove it from the clutches of this regime. We gather tonight to restore it, to restore to it the project of the dreams of its youth, boys and girls, the most beautiful dreams,” he added.

“Today, one in two families does not have a child at home, but on the roads of the world. Today, 700,000 pensioners cry almost every day with cold tears of misery. Today, thousands and thousands of sick people do not receive medicine and rely on the mercy of disease on the beds of our hospitals. Today, hundreds of thousands of Albanian families do not receive justice. Today, hundreds of thousands of businesses go bankrupt one after another; hundreds of thousands of jobs are destroyed by Edi Rama’s narco-euros. Today, the sirens to change Albania sound on all four corners of the earth. Today, Albania impatiently awaits change, the most beautiful project it has known in history, the project of Magnificent Albania,” he went on saying.

Berisha highlighted the main opposition party’s achievements, namely the country’s membership in the Council of Europe and NATO, and its role in infrastructure projects, stating that the DP program aimed at making Albania great.

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