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How is it possible that in this entire abusive campaign, not a single official stood up to say that they did not accept the order and that they would not resign? How did they all bow their heads like thieves or incompetents and agree to leave with their tails in the saddle?
The opposition of an official whose name no one had heard of before, until the day it became national news because he had opposed the prime minister, is a significant clue to explaining the storm that has engulfed local government.
The media reported with great curiosity and undisguised surprise the fact that the mayor of Konispol, Ergest Dule, would not obey Edi Rama's directive to dismiss all his subordinates and directors. "His simple phrase: "I have young people, I can't fire them," was reported with the weight and solemnity of a sacrilege.
Why have we reached this point, where even a simple, normal attitude quickly takes on the dimensions of a nationwide event?
To answer this question, we must first understand what is happening with the head of government's attack on local government.
One hypothesis is political. It is understood that Edi Rama needs a shocking shock. The frenzy to capture every vote gave him a qualified majority on May 11, further increasing the weight of the suffocating power of a 12-year-old government. If you add to this the fact that he controls over 90% of the municipalities (56 out of 61 in total), this greatly increases the weight of responsibility and the accumulation of popular anger in a single point.
Every leader who lives with the nightmare of a long rule knows well that the only way to gain time and vent tensions is to channel dissatisfaction and fatigue from an unchanging situation into the production of permanent scapegoats. The citizen who sees the grass sprouting on the cemeteries of Elbasan, the lack of water in coastal cities or the smoke from burning garbage over the bay of Vlora, although he knows that these will not be solved with a magic wand, finds some consolation, however small, in seeing that those who asked for his vote a few weeks ago are still receiving a punishment. Rama is aware of this. Therefore, the leader who claims to have entered politics three decades ago to overthrow the dictatorship, now, who is returning Albania to the one-party rule, needs to borrow the doctrine of his predecessors on the turnover of personnel and the fight against bureaucracy. This wave that blew in Albania in the 60s-70s as an import from the Maoist cultural revolution is being revived under the new regime. It is not for nothing that the great Helmsman said: “Cadres should not be rooted in one place, otherwise they rot”. This is exactly what is happening with directors, municipal employees and heads of administrative units.
The other hypothesis is related to affairs. Everyone knows that this wave of purges started in Vlora with the unexpected storm that the big boss took against the mayor Ermal Dredha. But few have heard those sources who claim that this wave of anger had nothing to do with the progress of the city's affairs. The latter claim that Dredha's only sin was that he refused to sign a deal that he had closed with an oligarch in the energy field.
Because the case had problems and could end up in court, Dredha was proposed to resolve it through an initiative of the Municipal Council, similar to what Veliaj had done for the Tirana incinerator. But the latter, convinced that the boss, after finishing a state job, even accuses you of the pears and plums you ate behind his back, was afraid to enter this sea on foot. He hesitated to take this step. And this was the price of his public lynching and the degeneration he suffered in front of his subordinates. Perhaps because the fear that led the mayor of Vlora to disobedience should not become a precedent, Rama decided to reserve more or less the same fate for all his peers.
Of course, the hypotheses for the reasons for launching such a reprisal can be much broader than the two mentioned above. If no one can provide a logical and coherent explanation for why an administrator in Puka should be fired for not cleaning the beach in Ishëm; why a director in Lezha should be forced to resign because the sidewalks in Durrës are blocked, or why a Shkodra employee should pay for the grass on the graves in Elbasan, everyone is free to think whatever they want. But one thing is clear to everyone: This is a collective punishment, an arbitrary decision by a single man that shows the most unscrupulous disregard for the separation of powers and the rule of law.
Here we come to another important point. How is it possible that in this entire abusive campaign, not a single official stood up to say that he did not accept the order and that he would not resign? At what point have we reached that everyone bowed their heads like thieves or incompetents and agreed to leave with their tails in the saddle?
Whatever the motivations that prompted Rama's purge, one thing is undeniable: this new wave is more evidence of the autocratic system that has been installed. And here is the answer to the question raised at the beginning about why a vague phrase by the mayor, until yesterday anonymous, of Konispol caused such a stir. ©Lapsi.al
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