Gratitude is the only thing that has kept Lulzim Basha hostage to Sali Berisha. This is what the head of the DP declared in the conference with journalists.
Basha further said that Berisha's choice was wrong for his family and the Democrats. While he shot the supporters of the head of Reestablishment, who, according to Basha, have aligned themselves with Berisha for personal interest and not for him.
"Berisha chose his path and had his reasons for making this choice. The choice has been wrong for his family and the Democrats. But I don't put the biggest blame on him, of course he has responsibility, but the biggest blame lies with those who acted as if their stomachs were on fire for him. It is the people who have anathematized him and have left nothing unsaid. They went there not for Berisha, but for themselves, they were 8 and they wanted to be the third, they went there for selfishness and the democrats are paying the consequences today. It took a personal cost."
Basha emphasized that since 2013 he has taken care to preserve the image and political heritage of Berisha, but chose to "save the house of the Democrats".
"As much as I worked with Berisha, they didn't. How careful I have been for 10 years from 2013 to preserve the image and political legacy of Berisha in 8 years when they were laughing at him, but I have to choose between gratitude, which has been the only thing I have been hostage to, and the need to move forward and the need to save the house of the Democrats. And we paid an incredible price."
According to him, if he thought for himself, "today there would be no official pro-Western DP, but it would be dissolved like the Re-establishment".
"If I thought about myself today, there would be no official pro-Western Democratic Party, but it would all be wasted and hopeless, like the re-establishment. To anyone who makes personal calculations, I remind them of the fate of these and they have turned into the gambler's syndrome and it does not offer any solution".