“The protesters have the same demands as Berisha”, Koçi: They are only thinking of Rama leaving…

Politician Petro Koçi has commented on the citizen protests held against the government, stating that the protesters’ demands are similar to those of the DP and Sali Berisha.

According to Koçi, the protest has progressively lost its initial character, while the participants have direct or indirect links to the Democratic Party.

A guest on the “Off the Record” programme with Andrea Danglli on A2 CNN, Koçi called some of the protesters’ demands “nonsense”, referring to the demand for Edi Rama’s removal and for limiting the prime minister’s term to two mandates.

“The protest began to be distorted along the way. If you look at the protest’s demands, they are the DP’s historic demands. Even those who are there as protagonists, some of them want Sali Berisha, they are Sali Berisha’s. Some do not want Sali Berisha, but they are like Sali Berisha. Very few of them are a few individuals. They all have a name, it is known where they come from, what formation they have, their political history. From the very start, the protest’s political engine was the DP”, said the former SP MP.

“The demands are not the ones that are needed. We should aim for changes that do not change names, but that change the state, democracy, the republic. The republic must be returned to a parliamentary one, that is the foundation, then come greater political freedoms, the electoral system. They say Rama should go, the prime minister’s mandate should be two terms, which are nonsense. On the 8th they will be there with Berisha”, Koçi continued.