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Neither Berisha nor Meta are in a comfortable position to be totally reliable in their positions against SPAK and the special court.
In the TV studios, as soon as the PD protest ended and also the day after, the biggest criticism that was made to the Thursday rally was for the messages that Ilir Meta and Sali Berisha issued against the new justice bodies and mainly SPAK.
The former president was anathematized for having a conflict of interest when he attacked the "dum-duman", for using the opposition rally for his own personal plight, for instead of giving a political speech, he used the podium against those who are investigating him. In fact, Ilir Meta dedicated an exaggerated place to the prosecutors who forced him to end his marriage.
He called those oppositionists who are concerned about the plight of the authority of the Special Prosecutor's Office, or even worse, who are afraid of it, cowards and shameless. Completely in the same logical line as the leader of the DP. Berisha spoke about a reform in justice which is haunting almost all the leaders of the opposition parties.
This line, which is already defined for the two leaders of the largest coalition parties, has never been joined by all the opposition voices. There are among them who think that the battle is against Edi Rama and not the institutions of justice, that such an attitude distances their parties from international support, that the power of the opposition should not be used to amnesty the decisions on the privatization of the Partizani club, or the property unjustified of the Meta family.
Exactly this contradiction, which is turning into a deep dividing line between the two mentalities of being in opposition, appeared even after the last protest. Taking advantage of it, many critical voices repeated the old refrain of using the PD and PL symbols for their leaders' personal troubles.
At first glance, whoever articulates this thesis seems to be right. Neither Berisha nor Meta are in a comfortable position to be totally reliable in their positions against SPAK and the special court. Being their subjects, they can be neither neutral nor cold.
They have taken over the whistleblower's loud mouthpiece, shouting so much that they are making inaudible the other voices that have the luxury of being critical of the capture of the new justice, without being in a conflict of interest with it. This is their constant mistake which they repeated during the evening of July 11.
But, in order to be true to the end, we must emphasize that the exaggeration or unreliability of Berisha and Meta is one thing and the truth about SPAK is quite another. The sin or the conflict of interest of the former cannot close our eyes to see what gang the latter are turning into in the service of power.
If we were to abstract for a moment, forgetting the words of the leaders of the two main parties and to reason with a cold mind about the role of the new justice, the conclusion would still be the same. The time that has passed has been enough to understand that ordinary prosecutors and judges have turned into commissars of the legal breakdown of Rama's political motto: "I am clean but others have conspired behind my back".
They have used deeply double standards in dealing with the Prime Minister and his direct rivals. They did not have the will to touch the biggest perversion of the Albanian autocracy, the manipulation of the vote that gives birth to the permanent power of a single man. Even with the issues they have raised, they have left in public the absurd taste that, in this country, votes are stolen by those who lose, that is, the opposition.
The list of these sins could be much longer, but even these milestones are enough to affirm a simple truth: today you cannot be a real and reliable opponent against Edi Rama, without also denouncing all the levers that serve to strengthen his power.
Those who seek to be in battle with the prime minister, but also friends of SPAK or the ambassadors who support him, are either pseudo-oppositionists, or cowards who do not understand anything about politics. This is an important dividing line to define the identikit of an opponent of this regime.
Therefore, to return to Thursday's protest, although neither Berisha nor Meta may not be, for their own reasons, in the most favorable position to criticize the new justice, there is no doubt that its denunciation should form a pillar fundamental of the opposition's position. The truth is indisputable even when we suspect that it is articulated by the wrong people.
Its essence lies in the block opposition of the Ramist kleptocracy, without making tactics about who to protect and who to save from the argates who serve it. The stupid expression: "we have it with Rama and not with SPAK (although this serves to prolong his reign)", cannot be part of the opposition arsenal.
In this sense, neither Saliu nor Iliri can be struck by more moderate positions than their attitudes. The only pro-opposition criticism of them should be made from a more radical approach. If we accept the thesis that Rama should be criticized together with the levers that serve to strengthen his power, including SPAK, this logic cannot end here.
Neither Berisha nor Meta are hitting with the same force the other components of the renaissance regime, the oligarchs who finance it and the national televisions that retouch it. And perhaps this is the point that gives more leeway to their enemies to accuse them of being personal only with SPAK.
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