FLASH
Shkruar nga Ylli Pata
The emblematic fact is that on May 11, Sali Berisha and Edi Rama are running for prime minister. Berisha has run in 1991, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2005, 2009, 2013, while Edi Rama has run in 2009, 2013, 2017, 2021.
Tomorrow, the electoral campaign officially begins in the 35th year since the fall of communism. In the race to win the elections is the same person who was the leader of the opposition in 1991, with one difference; he has passed through the entire high state pyramid of Albanian politics as president, prime minister and leader of the country's opposition.
Opposite him is Edi Rama, one of the names who, at the time of the change of systems, stood against the communist regime as the most radical for changing the country.
A challenger to Sali Berisha and the leadership of the Democratic Party that took on the task of changing the country, Edi Rama stood up to this team, for which he even had to give his life because they hit him in the head with a crowbar to kill him.
Rama then moved closer to the Socialists, and has been the leader of the Albanian left since 2005. Since 2013, Edi Rama has led the Albanian government, winning three consecutive elections, and entering the fourth election in pole position, as the favorite in the race.
The only leader of the European left to have won three consecutive elections is Tony Blair. Edi Rama, with his fourth term, breaks every continental record for a socialist politician.
From the center-right, this record has been broken by the British Conservatives and Angela Merkel's German Christian Democrats.
Tomorrow, Albanians, not only those who live here, but for the first time those who live in the diaspora, will have the opportunity to choose between Sali Berisha and Edi Rama.
Berisha's DP is not the one he led in 1991, just as Edi Rama's SP is not the one Fatos Nano led in 1991.
Edi Rama's electoral slogan is entry into the European Union, offering to close membership negotiations, Sali Berisha simply disputes this.
Berisha does not come as a change, but brings as an alternative a remake of the old system, as he said yesterday, it seems the judges and prosecutors removed from vetting have been brought back.
Of course, someone might say that this is nonsense, since it can't happen, the doctor simply used it to mobilize those affected by vetting.
This is precisely the philosophy. Sali Berisha again opposes vetting, so he calls for a return to the old system.
Of course, there are plenty of reasons to speak for or against an actor, a party, a group, or a politician, but that's another discussion.
The emblematic fact is that on May 11, Sali Berisha and Edi Rama are running for prime minister. Berisha has run in 1991, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2005, 2009, 2013, while Edi Rama has run in 2009, 2013, 2017, 2021.
Lini një Përgjigje