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What was expected has happened. The complete opposite of the "news" of Berisha's cassandras who made the lifting of his sanctions a fact and communicated to others as if it had happened. When in fact it had not happened and has not happened...
Yesterday, after a silence of more than two months, there were two pieces of news that resonated in Albania from the State Department.
One, the one about the appointment of former ambassador Juri Kim to a new position, has no relevance to developments in our country. But it only receives attention in the context of the constant "news" from the Berisha front as if she had been ceremonially removed and is being investigated. Berisha's emissaries had made her dismissal so certain that two or three of them addressed me on television, as if I had appointed her ambassador to Tirana: "Where is Kim, did you find out that she is going for a walk?" It is understandable that they addressed me that way, because I supported the positions of the US diplomatic representatives in Tirana as the positions of the White House and the State Department, and not because I benefited from them in any way for myself.
The other, very important news is that of the assessment of SPAK in the 2024 report. Very important, first of all in the context of a relative silence from the new administration of President Trump. Completely explainable in the context of its start with major priorities, but which had opened many mouths in Tirana, as if the US would pull the plug on SPAK. Consequently, the two main actors of the plural solidarity caste would have a free hand to castrate it (Rama) and to dissolve it (Berisha)!
The immediate aim of these pledges was to discredit completed investigations, discourage ongoing and prospective investigations, by drawing irrelevant analogies to Trump's problems with American justice.
Anyone with a normal dose of professionalism has warned early on that at the right time, within March-April, there would be a first supportive-encouraging statement from the new American Administration for SPAK. And here we are.
In the report published yesterday, of the many high-ranking individuals investigated in Albania today, only Sali Berisha is mentioned by name, referring to the legal and administrative acts on which his sanctioning was based.
The report was published following the completion of new leadership in the Office for Europe and Eurasia, which also covers the Balkans and Albania.
Most importantly, the Report not only evaluates the work of SPAK, but also underlines with critical-encouraging notes that “however, criminal prosecutions remain at low levels”. The honest and courageous prosecutors of SPAK, like the judges of the GJKKO, have reason to feel more encouraged in their work. The general public has reason to maintain high trust and support for the new justice system.
What was expected happened. The complete opposite of the "news" of Berisha's cassandras who made the lifting of his sanctions a fait accompli and communicated to others as if it had happened. When in fact it had not happened and has not happened.
"Duck missionaries," Spartak Ngjela once called the types who brought Berisha exaggerated or false news, which they knew he was eagerly awaiting, in order to get attention, appreciation, candidacy, or other appointments from him. "Bring the duck, get the reward," Ngjela laughed.
This story has continued and continues. Berisha and his followers have made the refrain "time has proved us right" a hit. Makare, they say in Shkodra. Many democrats and non-Berisha oppositionists would like this. First of all, for a concrete interest, which is the rotation of power after twelve years.
But things must be said as they are. So far, time has not justified anything. Neither for how Berisha has shown his sanctioning, nor for the consequences of his move to take over the leadership of the DP.
It is not worth dwelling in detail on the numerous disposable narratives that he has consumed to maintain and increase the ranks of his followers. At this point, let us admit that he has acted skillfully, as a good connoisseur of their worldview and worldview, of the light and shadows of human nature, by preferentially treating the part of the shadows.
What remains is that his sanctioning has not been done to prevent the "partition of Kosovo," as he has long trumpeted. The puzzles do not fit together. The Biden administration was categorically against a peace agreement between Kosovo and Serbia with a territorial exchange.
The sanction has nothing to do with the “McGonigal” affair, a crooked tree of the New York FBI, which has been investigated and sentenced to prison for serious violations and corruption by the American justice system itself. Among other things, for a bribe of two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, taken from an Albanian member of his deal with Edi Rama against the former leader of the Democratic Party, Lulzim Basha. Even in this story, the puzzles do not connect, the dates do not match, a story without exact dates is like a fairy tale. Unless Berisha Basha became.
Is it conceivable that a former FBI employee who was dismissed from his post and put under investigation some time before the sanctioning of the former Albanian prime minister, could set in motion the inter-institutional mechanism of sanctions in the most powerful country in the world? Only those narrow-minded people who know the US as a hotbed of intrigue at the level of a party section in a neighborhood of Tirana can think this.
Time has not yet done justice to the main point of the refrain, which is the removal of non-women from the new administration. The mention of Berisha's sanctions and investigation in yesterday's State Department Report is bad news for what they are waiting for.
Finally, there remains the election victory, Berisha's most attractive and mobilizing promise for his followers. Current polls by two well-known companies such as "Piopoli" in Italy and "Eurobarometer" show a lower percentage for the "Great Albania" coalition than the PD plus LSI in 2021. If this result holds, it is likely that the Re-established opposition will have wasted four years in vain during Edi Rama's darkest mandate in terms of the verified involvement in corruption of a very large number of his party officials. At a time when four years ago the PD and LSI were only 37 thousand votes behind the SP. Great drama, but let's wait for the election verdict. / Liberal
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