FLASH
Shkruar nga Andi Bushati
To pretend that you are facing Rama's dictatorship and hope that a politician who shows only contempt for democracy, like Donald Trump, will commit to bringing it back to our small country, shows nonsense, myopia, and political impotence...
The opposition's latest protest coincided with a moment when, more than ever this decade, two completely contradictory narratives are clashing fiercely.
The first is that of the government that is extolling Donald Trump's invitation to Edi Rama to participate in the Peace Board. It is also accompanied by the parade on the Albanian Riviera of part of the American presidential family, who has come to supervise the money that will be earned there. According to this narrative, the chapter of the Rama government's ambiguity with the Republican administration is closed and it will continue to have the same support that it has received until yesterday from Biden, Blinken, or Soros.
This totally hallucinatory version is countered by the more absurd one of Rama's critics and opponents, who hope that their "enemy" will suffer the same fate as Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. In support of their thesis, these latter mention the missing invitation from Donald Trump to sign as a founding member of the Peace Board at the Davos ceremony. They recall the frequent messages against drug trafficking issued by the head of diplomacy Marco Rubio and his subordinates in the State Department. They mention the attacks inspired by the other side of the Atlantic that SPAK has made on the nerve centers of the Rilinda structure, going as far as Belinda Balluku and the abuses of the ANA.
This Saturday's opposition protest was a product of this narrative and a visible attempt to keep it alive. Without explicitly saying so, it aims to undermine the idea that the end of our drug trafficker will come from abroad. That is why the protesters, in addition to holding banners in Albanian, also held banners in English, which is why Berisha announced that "times have changed" and declared that we are "in the last climometer."
But, if the deceitful narrative of the government that it will at all costs keep alive at least some of the legitimacy weakened by scandals and corruption is understandable, the effectiveness of the opposition leaves room for doubt. Do the DP, its allies, Rama's uncommitted opponents, win by relying on the idea that salvation will come from across the Atlantic? Does this give a boost or make the remaining opposition people more passive? Doesn't the credibility of the party leader and his deputies be destroyed by the fact that they dare not say even a word about the plunder of Zvërnec, through the exclusion from the status of a protected area, only because it produces money for Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump? Doesn't the rush to vote, in the queue, for participation in the Peace Board, according to an agenda set by Rama, for fear of appearing anti-Trump? It seems that the anxiety and preoccupation of the DP, rather than being understandable and sympathetic to Albanians, is to be so for Trumpists. At this point they resemble a drowning man who will grab hold of a hair. Pretending to be facing Rama's dictatorship and hoping that a politician who shows only contempt for democracy, like Donald Trump, will commit to bringing it back to our small country, shows nonsense, myopia and political impotence.
This fable does not lead the opposition anywhere. This was seen once again in today's protest, which was the next confirmation that a government that steals elections is almost impossible to overthrow even with street movements. In regimes where the opposition is imprisoned, where the purchased media does not inform, they are making propaganda, where citizens live blackmailed by dismissals, stripping them of the rights they are entitled to: such as state salary, baby bonus, disability camp, based on the notes that patronage spies report on them, the wave of popular movements is difficult to turn into a tsunami. Usually such systems collapse, once every few years, when they rot on their own, or as a result of tectonic movements within the species. They are not affected by the same tools that are effective in conditions of freedom.
So, at this point, the opposition can be justified even if it cannot produce rotation through the vote and if it does not have the capacity to overthrow through force. The only thing it can be criticized for is not powerlessness, but lack of morality. And here the hypocrisy that Trump will restore democracy shines with all its brilliance.
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