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National result: PS- 856,177 votes, DP- 529,354 votes.
We are entering the second month after the May 11 parliamentary elections, and in public debate we seem to have a life. With a deliberate tendency, the old trick of polarization and quarrel is being followed in the dinner debates, without really analyzing what happened in the May 11 parliamentary elections.
The old clamor for reform or change in the electoral system is returning here and there, with which Edi Rama's majority has managed to increase the number of MPs to 83.
In fact, if we had a majoritarian system with electoral districts, this result would be more profound, and perhaps a little less proportional nationally.
But besides the number of deputies, the most important, primary data of any election is the total number of votes at the national level, and of course at the territorial level: administrative unit - district, municipality.
In both dimensions; both the national and the territorial, we have a big difference between the majority and the opposition. Which has also managed to remove the old blue spots on the map of Albania, which has become increasingly purple.
This is due to the increase in the SP's votes in Lezhë, Shkodër or Kukës, which have been deep blue districts for years. Meanwhile, in the south, leftist bastions such as Fier, Vlora, Berat or Gjirokastra have highlighted the purple color. Meanwhile, districts once known as balanced such as Durrës, Korça, Elbasan or even Tirana, have become bastions of the Socialist Party, which leads by a significant margin.
Any radical or polarizing comment about buying or manipulation pales in comparison to the strong numbers that are an identical repeat of the municipal elections of May 14, 2023. National result: PS- 856,177 votes, PD- 529,354 votes.
Do you remember Sali Berisha in 2007, after the local elections, when he shouted "Blue Albania", referring to the results of the municipalities, after he had lost all the large cities and administrative units from Velipoja to Saranda?
The DP at that time had political energy, not only as a result of its power, but also its electoral organization, in almost the entire territory of the country. From the Vlora River when it received votes in Selenica, to Devoll, Pogradec, or Lapardha in Berat, etc. etc. Not to mention the north, which was considered an immovable bastion.
Today we are in an upside-down picture, and this has a clear reason; the political refusal of former voters of the DP and its allied parties to support the governing project of Sali Berisha and Ilir Meta.
People, not only those who did not vote for the DP, but also those who voted for the SP, or those who, as Zaloshnja says, from the gray electorate that, as it turns out, did not participate in the militant clashes, are looking for another political reality. One that is fresh and in line with the times. This comes out of every periodically conducted poll, where the two main leaders of the Albanian opposition are the most unpopular politicians in the country.
It is a clear fact, which has been proven in both perception and voting. Every water fight in the Havana as it has been conducted over the years, can be "entertaining" and generates clicks, but not votes.
In all likelihood, even the interest in following the old medley will always fade. After all, it's the same cassette, whose tape has wrinkled and dried up as a result of the light-years that have passed.
But why did we come here? Because in reality, the opposition missed a golden opportunity that, it must be said, was given to them by Lulzim Basha in September 2021.
By exposing Sali Berisha, Basha certainly did not increase his popularity among the hawks of the "blue people", but he nevertheless signed a strong act.
Which was above all a chance that no longer came to the Albanian opposition. As Ambassador Yuri Kim said, there are not many alternatives, otherwise we will go to the grass. Thus using a metaphor of the time of Albanian Enverian communism.
But what happened? People and interest groups within the opposition used this opportunity in a dramatically pragmatic way to please Sali Berisha, by insulting Lulzim Basha and Yuri Kim, as if by doing so they could increase the opposition's votes.
For change to happen, it is now the turn of the part that was right in the discourse within the opposition. Those who rejected Sali Berisha. It is up to them to initiate and propose the configuration of the "real" political revolution.
As happened in Germany, where with Merkel's departure, it was her opposing group that took over the leadership of the CDU and won the elections.
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