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Analysts Andi Bushati and Blendi Kajsiu have responded regarding the political system in Albania and the elections. According to Andi Bushati, Albania is today in an autocratic, almost dictatorial system, where Rama cannot win elections.
While Kajsiu called our system "political neo-feudalism", where all leaders have their own fiefdoms and rule in them. Kajsiu sees Rama's victory as a loss of the opposition mostly due to distrust of Berisha's DP, rather than as a cause of organized crime, money corruption and other elements used by the government.
Excerpts from the debate on the show "The Unexposed":
Ylli Rakipi: What system does Albania have today? Are we in a democracy, an authoritarian regime, a dictatorship? How do you define it?
Andi Bushati : We are in the midst of an autocratic, almost dictatorial regime. There are many cases that show it. Find me a democratic country, where the opposition has gone through prisons or what happened in Himara? What happened to Agon Channel? Find me a democratic country where Irfan's hotel is undermined like they undermined his? Not that there are no other similar hotels, but that at some point the autocrat did not like his position as a media owner. Find me a democratic country where national televisions are the biggest government swindlers?
Adding to this the use of justice as a tool of a single man. Are we closer to Putin, Erdoğan, Aliyev, or are we closer to Germany, France and Italy?
Blendi Kajsiu : Our debate is not so much about the type of regime, but rather a debate about elections. I think we are not clear about what kind of regime we are in, because it is a new system. We see these phenomena even in democratic countries like the USA. There is a crisis of democracy at the global level.
I think the concept of dictatorship partially describes it. I am trying to think of the system as political neo-feudalism. Fragmentation of the political sphere, where everyone is God in his own fiefdom. Rama is God in his fiefdom, in the SP it takes on the dimensions of a monarchy. Berisha is in his fiefdom, it has nothing to do with democracy and human rights. Just like Trumpism that functions as a monarchy and not democracy. So a system where everyone has their own fiefdom, including the owner of the media. In this respect, we have an erosion of democracy. Democracy without a public space…. Everyone has their own reality. The facts of one say we are in a massacre, the facts of the other that we have choices. Everyone sets their own norms, from the feudal to the prime minister and so on. We are in political neo-feudalism. Even the media do not speak in the name of the public interest. Media-politics or even organized crime.
Andi Bushati : It is important to take a stand on the first question because this gives an answer to the second. If we are not in a democracy, then we will come out as idiots if we talk about elections. If we are in a democracy, then there is no discussion about whether they were stolen or not. Here is the question, did Rama win or did Berisha lose? Did Rama win, or did Beleri lose? Because Beleri won. One of the hated figures of public opinion, what did they do to him? They stole from him with SPAK. Then they held elections and the SP won. One of the things that made me delve deeper into the reply with Kajsi was this, Kajsi's thesis that said crime may have done something, some manipulation, but Rama doesn't need it because even without these, he wins. The defenders of electoral crime said in 96', Berisha spoiled it a little, put in some tricks, but he won. Likewise, Nano and Meta in 2001, they said the SP would win, but he stole a little. First, these are politicians, not kleptomaniacs, who steal a little for fun. Second, a man who starts from common sense, who has intellectual concern, deals with the one who steals a little, even if he steals a little, not with the one who did not get where he should. I say this is one of the most dangerous theses.
Ylli Rakipi : You Bushati and all of us here do not vote for Saliu. Okay regime, but where will we find the votes for Saliu?
Andi Bushati : You say, as long as Bushati votes for Qori, then Berisha will never win. It worries me, I think that Qori has the best vision for this society. The problem is, will we prosecute Qori? This man who says that Albania is an oligarchic country, why did he only get one MP? Because Albanians think they don't have a problem with the oligarchy, or are they not free to vote for new parties? It is impossible for new ones to be born in a system where democracy is lacking.
Blendi Kajsiu: We need to clarify the terms. If we say massacre, genocide, these are alternative realities. There are two facts that can be interpreted but not contested. The last elections were neither a farce nor a massacre. Farce means fraud, while massacre means that the will was alienated or erased. We have examples of farces, the last one was Venezuela. In Venezuela, the opposition won. The commissioners released the minutes, at over 50%, and the calculation showed that the opposition received 60% of the vote. Maduro declared the result with the CEC where his people were. People came out in massive protests. He was forced to bring out the army, remove the de facto president, arrest oppositionists, so he remains in power through a military dictatorship. Those elections were not recognized by many countries. There is an example of an electoral massacre, where the opposition won the elections and everyone knows this and the victory was given to the government. Was this the case in Albania? No. We have barometers, Tirana is the barometer, crime and vote buying have less influence. Here we come to the second lie of the opposition, which produces bigger lies than the government, that Berisha lost the elections due to crime and not due to distrust and electoral abandonment. The DP lost in all 11 administrative units in Tirana. In all the polls, it came out below the SP. Berisha's abandonment by the electorate cannot be attributed to organized crime. We can debate the number of mandates, but saying that Berisha lost due to crime and not due to electoral abandonment contradicts the facts and cannot be called a massacre.
Andi Bushati : Kajsi's thesis is that if there were rigged elections, Tirana would be different. Can we keep our eyes on the ground and not see what Tirana is? What were the criminals of 5D? The members of the PS electoral headquarters, who stole 30 million. Këlici said that people in Erion Veliaj's 5D were stealing from me, the same machinery worked the same way. They were not criminals who did drugs, but who stole budget money. The mechanism works the same way, it is the same mechanism of Veliaj's 5D as that of Balluk. Well, isn't there a crime? What about the one that was used by 900 thousand citizens who had their data stolen that they entrusted to their state and that patronage agents are using? Is this a crime that affects the elections? We can't pretend we don't see them.
I agree that there are no Suel Çela and Tropli in Tirana, but the state crime that destroys every cell of the elections has been present. Lastly, is there a decline in the opposition? Is Rama's result explained by the decline of the opposition? Of course, and there will be more in 2029. Do you find a democratic place with all the opposition leaders in prison? Do you think the Salijan prison is normal? How do you explain that SPAK wiped out all of Ilir Meta's votes? SPAK also made Veliaj a thief, but the PS increased in votes. There are so many things that scream, that you can't pretend not to see them. The thesis that crime has not been present in Tirana is one of the most unstable alibis.
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