Speaking to reporters on last midnight, Berisha said that the next protest is set on February 20, the day associated with the overthrow of the statue of dictator Enver Hoxha in 1991.

“This uprising is not interrupted; this is a peaceful uprising whose mission is the liberation of Albania from the narco-dictatorship and nothing can prevent it without accomplishing the mission. This the scenario of invincible people”, he said.

Berisha said that during yesterday’s protest, “There were used rubber bullets which hit the protester in the forehead, posing a risk to his life. Ilir Tusha, a young man, was hit by a sniper without any motive. Likewise, MP Bledion Nallbati has significant hematomas because he was also hit with a bat on the head”.

The DP leader pointed at the senior officer of the State Police Sokol Bizhga for these acts. “The operation was led by the notorious criminal Sokol Bizhga. He deceived in a statement that read that 14 police officers were injured. I went to the hospital by myself and there was not a single police officer. The doctors told me that there is no police officer uninjured. They forced 5 police officers to appear at the hospital and they left on their own”, Berisha told reporters. /p.s./

Berisha said that the May 11 elections were an electoral farce, while warning of a national protest.

“Apart from the protest, it’s the peaceful uprising and no other means that will be able to save Albania from this savage internal invasion”.

“Let us do what the oppressed nations have done against dictatorships at all times; let us rise up and there is only one way, our resistance, our protest, no other way”, said Berisha.

Berisha said that the DP has only one weapon: meeting with the citizen, while he called on them to bring new values ​​to the DP.

“The generation who lived under the monist dictatorship may say that it cannot be compared with the present-day dictatorship. But, then and now there is only one man who has all the powers. Also, the opposition was not accepted then, while now the opposition is suppressed. You will come up with proposals, suggestions, what you think, but the most qualitative indicator of success is how much we will be able to bring new values. So, I say, talk to the people. There are many people who, no matter how difficult it may seem at first can add as much value to this party”, said Berisha. /m.q/r.e/a.f/p.s./