FLASH
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With less than half of the Albanian votes, Edi Rama governs alone; not because he won, but because the others destroyed each other. In a system that he understands and uses better than anyone else...
There is a loud public chorus that revolves around the same question every time: why can't the opposition come to power, even though Rama doesn't have a real majority of votes? And the answer is so simple, it becomes unbearable: because Edi Rama is the only one who has understood and masterfully used the ancient Roman axiom "divida et impera". Divide and rule. Never more than today, has this logic worked with such a laboratory effect on the Albanian electorate.
The facts are stubborn. Although Rama has received 83 mandates in Parliament, he has not yet broken the threshold of 800 thousand real votes, even with all the contribution from the diaspora. In reality, the SP has received less than 750 thousand votes within Albania. And even if all the envelopes from emigration are counted, with an ideal result for it, it would hardly exceed 840 thousand. The figure that the SP had in 2017, and in 2021. No real increase.
Meanwhile, the rest of the votes; from Saliu's DP, other opposition parties, civic and anti-system parties, constitute an equal bloc with the SP. We are at "fifty-fifty". Rama is not a real majority. He is a majority built on the void and dispersion of his opponents. No extraordinary ability was required, simply the timely and precise use of the other's incompetence.
Even in 2009, Sali Berisha won with fewer votes than the SP, but through a pact with Ilir Meta, he managed to govern. Today, history has repeated itself with changed roles. Rama has done the same thing that Berisha did then, but in a more refined form, by not offering ministerial posts to anyone, but by dividing everything through the illusion of an alternative.
And, ironically, all of this is based on an electoral system that was created with the collaboration of Sali Berisha and Edi Rama in 2008. The proportional system with closed lists was imposed to kill pluralism and maintain the leaders' control over representation.
This system is still in force and gives the bonus not to the biggest in reality, but to the most united, the most coordinated, and the most divisive of the others. Rama has understood this. And he has turned it into the strongest political weapon he has.
He did not win with hope. Nor with ideas. Nor with vision. He won because others could not build a counterweight. Because the opposition did not have a leader to unite the 800 thousand votes against Rama in a single front. Because people with integrity who should have stepped up were left in the shadows. And because the clans within the opposition have accepted that Rama will stay, as long as they themselves preserve their fragment.
In this context, what Rama has lost in votes, he has gained in control. He is no longer a party leader. He is a system manager. He builds the opposition, he defines what a model citizen is and what extremism is. He is also the regulator of his own punishment.
He appears to be a moderate, but he has publicly raped a citizen through a wiretap published on his orders. He did not say "boulevard whore", but he has made the system look like a quiet brothel, where everyone knows the rules and the price.
Even his interview for 'Corriere della Sera', where he claimed that "the vote was not against Berisha, but for him", is a refined psychological act, which shifts the essence of the debate from reality to perception. The truth is different. The vote was against Berisha, but only because there was no other. Not for Rama! Never!
Because if the opposition had had a real leader, who energized the entire anti-Rama spectrum, and turned all the votes into mandates, today we would have a new majority. And Rama would be in the minority.
This did not happen. Because the system is designed not to allow it. Because Rama is connected to the old structures of international control. Because Tony Blair is behind the scenes. He has connected Rama to Erdogan, to Soros, to the British and to the Arabs. Because he is a man who belongs to an architecture greater than Albania.
Two days ago, Tony Blair came to Tirana for 3 hours. He immediately returned to Belgrade. He does not travel for pleasure. He is the pivot of a geopolitical backround, where Rama is the right man in the right place, to administer Albania as a controlled zone, not as a democracy.
So, today the British Prime Minister came to Tirana, for the first time in history. Not to celebrate the victory of any democracy, but to strengthen the line of British interest in the Balkans.
So Rama's victory is not to be celebrated. It is to be analyzed. And to understand that it is not he who has won, but it is the others who have lost. And they have lost because they did not want to win. Because they were more busy clashing with each other than with him.
And so, a system built with cynicism, a machine calibrated with false sacrifices, and an opposition that more disgusts than seduces, gave Rama a power that does not belong to him with votes, but with an unprotected conscience./ Pamphlet
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