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Agron Gjekmarkaj, as a model of intellectual misery in Berisha's DP
2025-06-03 19:59:21 / EDITORIAL
The Democratic Party began its journey as the first opposition political force in the country, inspired by the students and intellectuals of December, who dreamed of a free, democratic and integrated Albania in Europe. However, the path that the DP has followed in these three decades is far from that initial dream. Instead of consolidating a party of ideas, freedoms and truth, Sali Berisha has transformed this force into a paranoid bunker, where different thinking is punished, while bowing to the leader is rewarded with laurels.
In this distorted political environment, telling the truth is an act that makes you an object of attack, while repeating Berisha's lies is the fastest path to promotion within the party. This inversion of values has produced a caste of politicians who no longer have the morality or the courage to articulate a free thought.
The most flagrant case of this intellectual misery is Agron Gjekmarkaj.
Once positioned as a different voice, a representative of the academic spirit within the DP, Gjekmarkaj has today ended up as a common political acrobat. From the declarations that he would never become Sali Berisha's MP, to the open support for Lulzim Basha as the only hope for a European DP, to today's declaration that Berisha should not step down from the party leadership – all of this testifies to a major, but not principled, turn. This is not simply a personal decline; it is the clearest evidence of how Berisha has managed to deform even the voices that once claimed to bring intellectual spirit within the party.
Gjekmarkaj today seems more loyal than Mul Noka and more humble than Albana Vokshi.
He has become the symbol of a party that no longer accepts free-thinking intellectuals, but only servants of a cult that has long since worn out.
If a political party no longer has the courage to say some simple truths – such as the fact that a leader declared "non grata" for corruption and undermining democracy can no longer be its leader – it no longer deserves the support of its citizens nor to represent the interests of society. Albanians, with their vote and departure from the DP, have understood this first. But the blind militants and Berisha's courtiers are still doing their best to keep this dead political body standing, like a mummy on display at the DP headquarters.
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