FLASH
Shkruar nga Skënder Minxhozi
Lulzim Basha has tried to come out against Berisha these days, accusing his former boss and the socialist leader Rama that with the constitutional changes of 2008 they have overturned the institutional balance by concentrating power in two pairs of hands. 16 years after he voted for it, Lulzim Basha is reading it today, finally, the distortion that has produced that former agreement, about which he has never spoken before.
When you see these days the showcase of politicians with whom Sali Berisha is in frontal collision, at first sight it seems as if Rama is the one holding the head of the list. But then when he notices how the prime minister doesn't deal with the Doctor at all, as some socialist deputy accidentally appears on camera to demand that Berisha be removed from house arrest as a "man with contributions", then he notices that this duo is playing in actually a remote theater for pure political interests. Sitting at the table in recent days makes this impression even stronger, especially since the negotiation in question comes after Rama closed the door in Basha's face in the electoral reform commission.
At the top of the list of the Doctor's enemies is the most strange and unthinkable anti-Berishist the country has ever seen: Lulzim Basha. The most surprising person who can take on this role himself, since Lulzim Basha was not born anti-Berisha, he came to political life with the destiny of Berisha's successor and successor. Luli has become an antagonist of his former boss out of trouble. Initially due to American pressure and along the way between him and Berisha, enmity has replaced the close 15-year relationship.
However, eat your flesh but keep your bones. Luli is an anti-Berishist of a special kind. Beyond the obvious silence and withdrawal he has in the face of accusations of the Doctor's daily insults, Luli is careful not to step where he shouldn't when talking about the shared past. The word comes, he proved once again on January 21 how flawed and selective he is in his anti-Berism, when he declared that he has not signed anything and knows nothing about that dramatic day. Consequently, he cannot be blamed for anything. Indirectly he left the responsibility to Berisha, but directly he failed to say a single word against him, although thirteen years have passed since January 21, 2011.
Now that the Berishists left their whistles and smokestacks at home and the parliament returned to normality, now that there will be no more burnt chairs and disruption of sessions, socialists and re-establishment have put agreements and compromise on the agenda. They even reached this meeting point while the country was commemorating the event of Gërdec (a symbolism that reminds many of the beating of the shoulders that Rama did to Berisha 16 years ago, while the dead of the tragedy were being counted)! This strange peace that emerges from the political forecast of Lulzim Basha, used to being considered "the only official DP", with all the benefits derived from this status.
It is normal and human for Luli to feel bad about this next conviction, although he is old enough in politics to remember that in these cases conviction itself is called "pragmatism". The truth is that more than Rama, Lulzim Basha is being punished by the law of numbers. Politician Basha had a golden chance to survive in the mess left by Berisha's file from America. He stayed small when he had every chance to become big, or at least carry some weight on the playing field.
If today he has only 11 of the more than 60 opposition deputies in the Assembly, it is because he did not know how to take advantage of the moment. He disappeared from the scene when he should have been there more than ever, remembering that the American support would be the eternal Kartabianka in the fight with the Doctor who would open the doors of fate regardless of how he behaved. Antoni Blinken's refusal during his visit to Tirana seems to have been a real blow to the heart for the official PD and its leader. Hence the gradual displacement that Rama made in his negotiations towards Reestablishment. Because you can't be a factor with a handful of deputies and hiding behind your people trying to keep the political movement alive in the TV debate studios.
Lulzim Basha was a minister when the constitutional compromise between Berisha and Rama took place in 2008. He did not speak then for the same reasons that Rithemelimi and SP are compromising between themselves today: political and party interest. Basha has no reason to be scandalized about the damages of this compromise because he himself was a part of it.
Lulzim Basha has tried to come out against Berisha these days, accusing his former boss and the socialist leader Rama that with the constitutional changes of 2008 they have overturned the institutional balance by concentrating power in two pairs of hands. 16 years after he voted for it, Lulzim Basha is reading it today, finally, the distortion that has produced that former agreement, about which he has never spoken before.
We are faced with the classic case when Lulzim Basha, whenever there is talk about the shared past with Berisha, he was not there, he did not hear anything and he is not guilty. This is a behavior which has remained unchanged since September 2021, when he "froze" Berisha in the parliamentary group. It is this supreme obstacle that has prevented Basha from creating a political identity of his own separate from the past and from Berisha, which makes him a little credible to the wavering voter who is waiting to hear which faces on the right are different from the president 33 years old.
Left alone without his political mentor, Lulzim Basha is proving today everything that was thought about him: a weak politician, used to benefit by sitting, more than winning with skill. In this turbulent sea that is Albanian politics today, with quarrels, investigations and electoral challenges, he is showing all his weaknesses that date from the first day when he entered active politics. There is hope that he will remain on the field when Rama and Berisha have vacated the office, but most likely he will also join that caravan. It did not benefit from the consumption of others and is being consumed along the way along with them.
Lini një Përgjigje