After losing the 2013 elections, Sali Berisha stepped down as chairman of the Democratic Party and from all other positions, remaining only as a member of parliament. He returned to the center of Albanian politics in 2021 when he was declared “non grata” by the United States and when Lulzim Basha, then leader of the Democratic Party, expelled him from the party.
After a political battle within the ranks of the opposition, Berisha was re-elected as the leader of the Democratic Party and managed to rally the majority of party members after a major split, with the party now leading the opposition coalition and aiming to win the parliamentary elections on May 11.
But when does Sali Berisha plan to retire, considering the latest news from the U.S. that the U.S. State Department under the Trump administration considered the “non grata” designation against him to be a political decision by the Biden administration and former Secretary Blinken?
In an interview with Opinion, Berisha said, “A missionary only withdraws for one reason by the will of the Almighty.”
“Only God withdraws a missionary. The missionary can never betray God. Whoever starts a mission under the most unequal conditions, in the first place, has God as their hope and trust,” Berisha said, as reported by Tv Klan.
