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Lea Ypi, a 'headache' in the political salons of the majority...
A week ago, a political development took place in Brussels that has created a lot of turbulence in Tirana.
The President of the European Council, namely the head of the highest decision-making body of the EU, Antonio Costa, distributed to all the heads of member states, a copy in English of the book "Free" by Lea Ypi. Albanian intellectual, who is an important academic of the United Kingdom, and a professor with a lot of weight in the important University: London School of Economics.
The former Portuguese Prime Minister, who took the leadership of the EU recently, announced the distribution of the book on his social network.
"I gave the leaders of the European Council the book Free, a book by Lea Ypi, as a reminder of freedom, and the importance of how our shared history helps us understand each other better. I have read this book from the beginning in the end, after it was given to me by Edi Rama during my visit to Albania in 2023", writes Antonio Costa.
As much as it may seem like a "cultural gesture", donating a book to such an important salon, which is actually an institution, constitutes a political act.
Since the promotion of the book could be done informally or in a cultural event, but it seems that we are not at this level.
But why should it be in a political event? Even Edi Rama has been giving important European statesmen and politicians a copy of Lea Ypi's book in the relevant language for a year.
Meanwhile, the LSE professor often comes to Albania at events organized by the government and its entities.
When the book was promoted, from many characters who belong to the stratum of the persecuted of communism, but also all the opposition intellectuals did not go to the event. They even saw this act with jealousy, as a political development of Edi Rama.
Meanwhile, in the corridors of the majority, this promotion has been causing 'headaches' for a long time, anxiety that is easily recognized. Add here the closing of paths within the current establishment to create one or several potential candidates at the right level to compete within the SP.
However, there are also movements that, as much as they can, have not openly challenged this will of Rama to not allow a successor, or to design it himself, even if it seriously injures his political strength.
An old disease of the Albanian left, which reached its peak in 1981, when Enver Hoxha eliminated Mehmet Shehu and his large lobby within the ALP, in order to pave the way for his relative Ramiz Alia to take the throne.
Rama has not been able to block a process, which normally is not fully controlled by his autocratic leadership.
For example, Erion Veliaj or Belinda Balluku are seen today by socialists as possible rivals to succeed the "throne". In addition to their political and intellectual formation, they also have an important lobby of followers and supporters.
These are necessary conditions to enter a political battle, and not simply expect an imposition from above. What Lulzim Basha is doing today is a delayed effort, as it would have been more successful if he had been active when he was the 'de jure' chairman of the DP.
However, even a post-actum battle with Sali Berisha is bearing fruit in the process of shaping a different opposition.
Edi Rama knows that today's launch of the catapult of a successor will bring a great turbulence in the SP, and we do not exaggerate, an electoral schism as well. So he is waiting for the fourth term to do it if he wins a consolidated majority. He also takes the signal to the West, in a diabolical way to lobby them, as if to tell them that "I will leave, I have found the successor".
In fact, this is how many autocrats have behaved, starting with Erdogan, but in the end they did not go away. Their whole game has been a fog to clarify the vision of others, especially international partners./ Pamphlet
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