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In such cases, it is not the people who choose, but the government that chooses the people to govern...
The partial elections in five municipalities today resemble the 2019 elections, even worse than them. In 2019, while the opposition boycotted the elections, it managed to mobilize the socialists after threatening them that it would not physically allow them to vote. And this increased the nerves on election day, even a little, and the socialists went to vote en masse not because their candidate was in danger against the Democratic Persuasion candidate, but because they wanted to prove that they were not afraid of physical threats.
Today the socialists had no threat, neither physical nor political. Their candidates looked like appointed mayors, while their rivals were orphaned children, after their man, Sali Berisha, had sent them out to beg for votes like those beggars' tutors in the city, in the hope that in the end he would take them for himself. If they don't collect anything, then the blame remains on them.
This makes these elections the ugliest in the history of pluralism because they are uncompetitive elections, not due to a lack of political freedoms, but due to the opposition's lack of desire to compete.
The boycott of today's elections by the opposition is worse than the one in 2019, because that boycott at least had some manliness. They had invented some reasons and were excited by their stupidity. Today they didn't even dare to invent any reasons. Today they invented some independent candidates so that the field wouldn't seem empty to them and hid behind them.
This may be the only case in the world where the opposition refuses to run in elections, as this ruins the comfort of being in opposition. Everyone is settled somewhere in one place, either MPs or party officials, and any other competition is a status quo. They don't want to lose it. For an opposition for which elections are a hassle, any motive to exist has ended. Political parties are created only to run in elections and change power. If they give up this function, they no longer have a reason to exist.
And today the Democratic Party has proven that Albania no longer needs it.
It has left five candidates who dared to run on the streets and has gone into hiding, leaving the will of 300,000 Albanian voters on the streets.
Although the results are not yet in, there are no surprises. The Socialists will take over the five municipalities again, being appointed rather than elected. Their voters did not have any great motivation to go out to vote, except for the party part, since they knew the result. Their opponents also did not have any motivation to go out to vote against them, since they did not have candidates.
So, one side did not vote out of the certainty of victory and the other did not vote out of the certainty of defeat, making these the most uncompetitive elections in our history. This is also the best example to show what it means to govern without opposition in a country. In such cases, it is not the people who choose, but the government that chooses the people to govern.
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