FLASH
Shkruar nga Endri Kajsiu
Sali Berisha's campaign has turned into a theater of the absurd: a man who accuses others of corruption, while he himself has been declared "persona non grata"; a leader who talks about the future, while relying on the past.
If politics had an honest mirror, it would show Sali Berisha today a picture that he himself would never accept: a worn-out politician, who in an attempt to survive in a scene he no longer recognizes, has become a caricature of himself.
The 80-year-old former prime minister, who once preached for the youth, for reform, for Albania's pro-Western orientation, has today become a symbol of a tired politics, without energy, without ideas and above all without coherence. We have seen him in recent months confuse numbers, forget names, give speeches where it is not known whether he is applauded more for what he says or for the mistakes he makes.
But the most ironic thing is when he sees how he himself is falling victim to what he once called a “caricature of American politics” — Joe Biden. The one who once praised Donald Trump and spoke of “globalist democrats who are plunging the world into decadence,” today imitates precisely President Biden: an old man on the fringes of political perception, who struggles with memory more than with opponents.
Karma is treacherous.
Once, Democratic Party representatives reviled Joe Biden in every corner of their politics. They called him incompetent, captured by the “Sorosians,” a symbol of what they claimed Albania would never become. But today, Berisha has ended up in the same position they mocked: an old leader who has lost touch with reality, who is surrounded by a circle of blind loyalists, and who tries to arouse enthusiasm with fear, not hope.
And to complete the paradox, comes the choice of La Civita as campaign strategist – a former advisor to Donald Trump. But what can a “Trumpist” do for a candidate who behaves like Biden? La Civita’s advice, beyond the media facade, is destined to fall on deaf ears: a campaign that relies on a leader who can barely remember what he himself said, no longer needs strategy, but honesty with himself and with voters.
Sali Berisha's campaign has become a theater of the absurd: a man who accuses others of corruption, while he himself has been declared "non grata"; a leader who talks about the future, while relying on the past; a party that claims to be the new opposition, but is led by the oldest figure in Albanian politics.
More than a political contest, what is happening today is a confrontation between the future and a past that refuses to go away. And in this clash, Albanian citizens are increasingly realizing that the choice is not just between parties, but between two ways of seeing Albania, one of which is the one I mentioned above.
The Albania that citizens want cannot be built with hands that hold the past hostage.
Sali Berisha's time is over. And if there is any true justice in politics, it is the irony with which history has brought him: from a critic of Biden, to a copy of him. From a supporter of Trump, to a patient of his own rhetoric.
This is political karma.
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