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Democracy Blocked: When Leaders Don't Leave, Hope Doesn't Move...
From the outside they look like enemies. One despises the other at rallies, while the other accuses him of being an enemy of democracy. But in essence, Edi Rama and Sali Berisha are the same: two figures who do not conceive of politics without themselves, who do not imagine the party without their name at the top, and who do not accept the most elementary logic of democracy: rotation.
For 34 years, Albania has seen only their faces at the center of every crisis, bargain or political development. Both have been prime ministers, one for 8 years, the other for 12 years. Both have been party leaders for more than two decades. And both today refuse to leave, despite their age, failures or the collective fatigue they have caused.
Rama says he will leave when he wants to. He does not accept elections within the party, does not allow real competition for leaders, does not tolerate any structure that challenges him. He has removed every rule that forced him to resign after losing the elections. He has built a system where even when the SP wins, he is the absolute winner, and when he loses, he shifts the blame somewhere else: to the "district", the "candidates" or ....
Berisha, on the other hand, has turned into a grotesque version of himself. Even after being declared “non grata” by the US and the EU, even after the split of the DP, even after successive defeats, he continues to behave as if he is immortal. Every “election” is a farce, where he runs only to get 98% of the votes. And no one in the DP has the courage to tell him that his time is up.
Essentially, Rama and Berisha are together in this system, not as political allies, but as guarantors of a scheme where rotation occurs only between them and the castes they have built. No innovation, no new figure, no different idea can arise in the SP or the DP without their blessing.
Albania today is a country where pluralism has turned into a closed circle: you vote left or right, but the same ones govern. It is a theater with two main actors who share everything except the microphone. And all the other actors; deputies, ministers, local leaders, are just extras who accept the role, so as not to be thrown off the stage.
This is not just a party problem. It is a shared national drama, because if leaders are eternally the same, then history cannot change either./ Pamphlet
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