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Among the protesters' demands, limiting the prime minister's term could be the most important political reform since 1990...
Among the demands presented by the protesters in front of the Prime Minister's Office, one stands out above all the others. It is not the resignation of Edi Rama, nor a caretaker government, nor changes to the Electoral Code. It is the proposal to limit the prime minister's term to no more than two terms in an individual's lifetime.
At first glance, it looks like a constitutional change. In reality, it is a direct blow to the political model that has dominated Albania for more than three decades.
If such a rule had been established years ago, today neither Edi Rama nor Sali Berisha would be the main protagonists of Albanian politics. Together, the two have dominated the country's political life for more than 30 years, becoming figures who have defined almost every electoral battle, every crisis and every major political development.
This is precisely where the importance of this demand lies. It does not simply aim at the removal of a government. It aims to put an end to a political caste that constantly recycles the same names and the same figures.
Protesters argue that Albania does not just need a rotation of power, but a rotation of elites. Because if the government changes, but the same leaders remain, then the system continues to function according to the same logic.
The closest example comes from Hungary. After 16 years in power, Viktor Orbán left and was replaced by Péter Magyar, a figure who built his campaign on the need for political renewal, limiting power, and dismantling mechanisms that allow the long-term dominance of a single leader.
In Albania, the debate seems even more delayed. Rama and Berisha are still the figures who dominate the political scene, despite the country entering its fourth decade of pluralism.
For this reason, the demand to limit the prime minister's term to two terms may be the most revolutionary proposal to emerge from the protests. It would necessarily create space for new generations of politicians and would make it impossible to build personal powers that last for decades.
After all, democracy is not measured only by free elections. It is also measured by the ability to produce new leaders. And perhaps for the first time in many years, protesters have put on the table an idea that touches on the root of Albania's political problem: not simply who governs, but how long they can govern. / Pamphlet
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