FLASH
Shkruar nga Armand Shkullaku
It would make sense, if only as a sense of pride, if their country, from the poorest and most corrupt in Europe, thanks to his leadership today would be ranked a few steps higher.
Plagued by countless scandals and finally defeated by the failure that in 12 consecutive years he failed to register a single success at the head of the country, Edi Rama is attempting a new fable, as ugly as it is worthless: the game with the patriotic and emotional feelings of Albanians who live far from their country.
The meeting in Milan, like the one in Athens and others waiting in line, are the lowest and most ruthless show to wash away a corrupt and criminalized regime, with the sweat and blood of hundreds of thousands of immigrants. The use of patriotic and folklore symbols, red and black flags, songs like "speak Albanian if you're Albanian" or touching images of the biblical exodus of the 90s, is nothing but the unscrupulous theft of emotions, nostalgia, tears and soul of those who miss their homeland, to fill the empty glory pit of a failed leader.
Appropriating the emotional outbursts of immigrants, provoked by facing the sacrifice for survival, as a gratitude for his leadership, is a political perversity too much even for a politician like Edi Rama. The selection of shocking images, the listing in a poignant style of their 30 years of suffering to reach the climax that they finally succeeded, is the thread of Rama's oratory to touch the hearts of the immigrants who, in essence, rise to feet in honor of their sacrifice and not of the one who evokes it. But Edi Rama's play is exactly the reverse reading of this paradigm: the glory belongs to the one who confesses it and not to those who lived it.
And, as emotions subside and hearts return to the rhythm of everyday life, the question remains the same. What should the hundreds of thousands of Albanians living in exile be grateful to the Albanian Prime Minister for? What has he done for them during the 25 years that he has been continuously at the top of power in Albania? Why should they be proud of his leadership?
The glory of the Prime Minister would go to those ovations if he would undertake that tour to give the letter of acceptance of Albania to the European Union as a sign of thanks to those Albanians who contributed with their sacrifice. It would make sense, if only as a sense of pride, if their country, from the poorest and most corrupt in Europe, thanks to his leadership today would be ranked a few steps higher. It would be legitimate as well, if Albania is really a poor country with limited opportunities, but under his leadership it would stand out as a model of democracy and the rule of law in the region.
Edi Rama does not have and cannot have any of these imaginary records. Those realities are the consequences of the degradation of the country in its leadership, from the corrupt government to the powerful criminals, from the scandals with millions of stolen euros to the division of Albania as electoral spoils for the thugs who control everything. Are these worth less than the prime minister's speeches at the UN, pompous summits in Tirana or the flags of emigration nostalgia, to feel proud as Albanians?
Edi Rama counted in Milan the businesses of Albanians in Italy but did not say how many immigrants from Italy have invested in Albania and what facilities his government offers them. Why doesn't any of the successful Albanians come to Albania, but a "mason" is found with an employee to give him the 100 million euro sterilization concession, which is an affair under investigation by SPAK? Why are there Italians who design hundreds of millions worth of towers and resorts and Albanian architects who excel in the West are not called? Why can't the honest immigrants, whose suffering the prime minister evokes, get permits and land for strategic investments, but these are enjoyed by either the bandits or the people of the court of power?
If he had done a little in this direction, Edi Rama could have been allowed the last ride of the patriotic and emotional feelings of the Albanians. But he has no record that an Albanian can be proud of, except for the expensive advertising that he constantly pays for himself. In Albania, faced with the reality of scandals and the deep criminalization it has produced, this advertisement no longer works. Therefore, to escape from this reality, he is trying to manipulate the feelings of those who are far from him. In front of whom he is not obliged to give an account, but only to sell them the advertisement of emotions with the soundtrack of Noiyz.
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