FLASH
Shkruar nga Fatos Tarifa
Many political initiatives, personally initiated by Mr. Rama, supported without extensive consultations with the public and interest groups and formulated as laws by a regimented majority of socialist deputies in the Albanian assembly, who almost never oppose their prime minister and do not hold his government accountable, have created a worrying situation for the health of democracy in our country.
Yesterday, the deputies of the socialist majority in the Assembly of Albania approved - with great haste and in the conditions of an extraordinary heat - two draft laws that were much debated in public, the draft law on the cultivation of cannabis for medical use and the one for medical students.
At the outset, I want to make three things publicly known:
(1) I am a socialist in my political beliefs. These beliefs are informed and inspired by the New Left, as C. Wright Mills formulated the content of this theoretical movement in the early 1960s.
Respecting and protecting the civil and political rights of citizens and commitment to social justice are for me the basic criteria for judging and evaluating any political program and any form of governance.
(2) Being a socialist does not make me blind or silent towards the attitudes and policies of the Albanian socialists (their party and its leader), when I judge them to be uninformed, hasty, or, worse, wrong.
(3) By affirming the above, in no way do I intend to serve the opposition. The political opposition in Albania, in the state it is in today, is destructive, unworthy and hopeless to govern the country. This opposition does not inspire, even though, at times, its criticisms of the socialist government have been and are right.
Being critical and vocal towards some of the positions and policies of the socialist government and, especially, towards the narcissistic and authoritarian president of Zaj, Mr. Rama, I do not seek and do not support a non-socialist government.
By making my affiliation and political identity clear in this way, I would like to express (not for the first time) my sincere concern about the arrogance and authoritarianism with which Prime Minister Rama has been running the affairs of the government for a long time.
The behavior of Mr. Rama at the head of the government reminds me of Kant's words that, if the head of a government does not see himself as a citizen of his country ("a fellow citizen"), he begins to see himself as "the owner of the state".
Shumë nisma politike, të iniciuara personalisht nga z.Rama, të mbështetura pa konsultime të gjera me publikun dhe me grupe interesi dhe të formuluara si ligje nga një shumicë e regjimentuar deputetësh socialistë në kuvendin e Shqipërisë, që thuajse kurrë nuk e kundërshtojnë kryeministrin e tyre dhe nuk i kërkojnë llogari qeverisë së tij, kanë krijuar një gjendje shqetësuese për shëndetin e demokracisë në vendin tonë.
Kuvendi i Shqipërisë dhe çdo anëtar i shumicës socialiste në atë kuvend janë po aq përgjegjës për këtë gjendje, sa edhe kryeministri i vendit.
Miratimi dje në kuvend, me votat e vetëm gjysmës së anëtarëve të tij, i dy projektligjeve të sipërpërmendur, kaq të debatuar e të kundërshtuar në publik, dëshmon pikërisht këtë. Dëshmon shqetësimin që shprehte në kohën e vet, James Madison, presidenti i katërt i Shteteve të Bashkuara, kur fliste për rrezikun që sjell “tirania e mazhorancës” (“tyranny of majority”). Thomas Jefferson, nga ana e vet, fliste shpesh për rreziqet e “despotizmit të zgjedhur” (“elected despotism”), duke theksuar se, “njëqind e shtatëdhjetë e tre despotë mund të jenë pa dyshim po aq shtypës sa edhe një i vetëm”.
Çfarë bënë dje deputetët e shumicës socialiste në kuvend më krijon ndjesinë se kemi të bëjmë me një qëndrim “despotësh të zgjedhur”, që veprojnë siç duan dhe nuk japin llogari para askujt, veç kryeministrit, kreut të kësaj “republike kryeministrore”.
I understand the concerns of the medical students and support them in their protest. Their human right and their aspirations for professional development cannot be denied by hypocritical politicians, a large part of whom have enabled their children to be educated and employed abroad.
I share the same opinion as Kant, that "honesty is better than any politics, it is even a necessary condition for any kind of politics".
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