The Democratic Party will convene its National Convent tomorrow to analyze the electoral farce, to prove the manipulation and votes’ buy-out, but also to elect the new National Council, thus paving the way for the election of the new party executive and secretariat.

Democrats will go to this Convent tomorrow bent over, disappointed, upset, abandoned and betrayed. Many of them have probably even packed their bags to leave forever, joining hundreds of thousands of others who did not have the nerve to hope to the end.

And as these 'last Mohicans' head to the Palace of Congresses, dilemmas and questions remain in the minds of each of them: how did it happen? What happened? What did we do wrong? Do they tell us everything?

In these three months, the Democrats have heard endless excuses from the supporters of the current leadership, as many endless accusations from the opponents of the leadership, and just as much analysis from the ones who left the same way of these camps. In the hasty process of electing the new Democratic Party chairman, Democrats clashed with a farcical election campaign.

Farce, not because the candidates were part of Basha's “game”, but their platform, like Basha's, was a farce, a circle of falsity, lack of vision and inability to lay out a platform that could bring all Democrats together. A painful lack of vision to gather all Albanians disappointed in confronting Rama.

Basha's opponents separately and all together made a platform-based campaign that Basha is in bargain with Rama. You can accuse the opponent of such a thing, you can even personalize the campaign in personal attacks, but it does not show leadership.

To accuse Basha of being in bargain with Rama, you must first prove that you yourself are not in bargain. To accuse him of being related to the oligarchs, you must first have the courage to mention them by name. To accuse Basha of not being a leader, you must first inspire. To accuse Basha of selling Berisha and not siding with him in the case of being declared 'non-grata', you must first come up with a clear political stance, and not hold your breath to meet with Ambassador Kim, much less have courage to express dissatisfaction or injustice (real or perceived). You cannot pretend to be a Berishian just enough to get the votes of his supporters and not defend him.

Basha also lies to them when he tells them that the internationals do not support Rama. That Americans do not take his side. He lies to them because the facts show otherwise. They did not oppose him when he unilaterally made the Territorial Reform. They did not oppose him when he turned Albania into a drug lab. They did not oppose him even when he used drug traffickers to win the 2017 elections.

They did not oppose him even when he unmade the constitutional changes for the Justice Reform. Not even when he captured all the institutions, not when he filled vacancies in parliament in an unconstitutional manner either. Not even when he held the monistic local elections. Not even when he demolished the Theater illegally. Not even when he filled parliament, administration and local government with drug traffickers, murderers and rapists. Neither when he put Kosovo and the sea up for sale, nor when he attacked the opposing media, or when he closed them at a dizzying cost to the state budget. Not even when he unmade the free and fair elections by amending the Constitution, buying or using criminal groups. And the list goes on.

Unfortunately, even Basha's opponents do not tell them. The Doctor does not tell them either.

They do not tell them, because if they do, they will have to also tell the “why”. And, apparently, no one has the courage to open this topic. All the less Basha.

It is not a conspiracy, but a fact. As it is a fact that this time too did not happen, in addition to all the arguments I mentioned above. Just as it is a fact that the opposition leadership today is found leaning against the wall. Just as it is a fact that American diplomats run after every peripheral opposition figure, after Rudina Hajdari, after the Thurje Initiative, after Edith Harxhi, and after Leka Zogu.

Berisha is not open and honest with the Democrats either. Unfortunately. At the height of this “embargo”, he did not leave the television studio without declaring and promising that he would now return strongly and full time to the DP and to active politics. But he is the big absentee in tomorrow's Congress. Since 2017, there is no Democrat who has not asked aloud and under his voice: what about the Doctor? What does he think? Does Basha consult with him? Neither the Democrats nor the internationals ever received an exhaustive response from him.

I do not have an accurate or exhaustive answer to the dilemmas of, and on the leadership of the DP, or the unreserved support given to Rama. The reason may be one, but they can also be many. More than anything else, Democrats need to know. And no one but Basha can tell them.

It could be his fault, it could be for reasons even bigger than himself. Maybe Rama offers them things that Basha cannot, but he must tell them. They may not have the same approaches to regional issues as the final Kosovo-Serbia agreement, or mini-Schengen, or a new Yugoslavia. Maybe there is a project to leave Albania outside the EU. Maybe it's a matter of lobbying.

Maybe there is an EU-US project for a joint government between the two major parties. Maybe it’s a leadership issue. Perhaps the current leadership are not seen as serious interlocutors. Maybe there is a general spirit against conservative and right-wing parties.

All these remain in the framework of assumptions as long as we do not have a confrontation with the truth, and as long as no one tells the Democrats. Neither Basha, nor Berisha, nor the opponents of one or the other.

I do not expect the PD Congress to touch on this hot topic tomorrow, but I am sure that whatever is said in that hall, the “why do the internationals support Rama” question will be there.

If not in the minds of the speakers on the podium, in the minds of everyone in that room for sure.

If PD will start re-rising, the start is exactly tomorrow in that hall.

And rising always begins by answering difficult questions.