FLASH
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The DP's popularity remains unchanged, despite the horrors the government is committing and the unprincipled war it is waging on justice.
Politics in Albania is in an unimaginable impasse. It seems as if there is a consensus not only in public opinion or in public debate, but almost a popular consensus that the government of Prime Minister Rama is completely immersed in corruption. In addition to being immersed in corruption, the Rama government is also openly fighting against the investigation of this corruption. This war has become almost total in the case of the minister and deputy prime minister Belinda Balluku. Rama has managed, through this war since November, to block the suspension of the minister, as the Court Against Crime and Corruption had decided, and to block the lifting of her immunity. He is using very weak political and legal arguments for this blockage. The entire public opinion blames Rama for fighting a low war in defense of her, but also of his government.
From a political point of view, Prime Minister Rama, but also any prime minister in his place, would take stock and take actions that do not expose him so openly in the eyes of public opinion, that do not make him so guilty for the way he behaved before public opinion. The attacks on the SPAK Prosecutor's Office, on the GJKKO Court, sending the case to the Constitutional Court, the failure to convene the Mandates Commission to consider lifting the immunity of the Deputy Prime Minister, are for everyone low actions that are not approved by the population. No program in the media, no voice even remotely serious in the media thinks that Rama is concerned about constitutional issues or about issues of the functioning of the rule of law in this war. Everyone thinks that he is fighting for survival and is fighting in an unacceptable way.
On the other hand, the actions of the SPAK Prosecutor's Office and the GJKKO are viewed with sympathy by the people. People who have been exhausted for years and perhaps decades by impunity and corruption of high-ranking government officials have great appreciation for SPAK and its actions. This is not in dispute.
So, how is it possible that a very careful politician like Rama behaves in such a way that it damages his popularity and helps SPAK's popularity to strengthen? Every political war by people and politicians who are accused of corruption does not harm SPAK at all, on the contrary it helps it. So Rama, in the battle to win the hearts and minds of public opinion with the fight against SPAK and GJKKO, loses, while they win. But Rama, in the battle for public opinion, for the minds and hearts of society against the opposition DP, does not lose. The majority-opposition confrontation is carried out according to the rule of the zero-sum game: as much as one wins, the other loses.
So Rama, with the way he handles the Balluku issue, with the way he attacks justice and clearly defends the lack of corruption, loses popularity, loses support, but he has this loss in confrontation with justice. In confrontation with the DP he does not lose, because if he were to lose, then the DP would win. The DP clearly seems to be not becoming more popular and more liked in the eyes of the people. The DP continues to be at the same levels for a long time. In a way, it has reached a point at which time no longer moves; time stands still, time does not move. Even the popularity of the DP remains the same, despite the horrors that the government commits and the unprincipled war that it is waging with justice.
Thus, Rama, considering that politically he is not competing with SPAK and GJKKO, but with the DP, then he has the peace and opportunity to freely fight with them, since the DP is not growing, it cannot become more popular. As De Jouvenel says in his monumental book The Nature of Power, power never stays in place; it either grows or decreases. Even the power of Rama, Berisha and the judiciary never stays in place.
Thus, Rama's power in the face of justice may be growing, and he is fighting justice with everything so that it does not grow. Berisha's power in the face of Rama does not grow and he is thus weakening, while Rama's power in the face of Berisha, since Berisha does not grow, is growing. Berisha's power in the face of justice is also weakening, because justice is becoming more and more reliable.
In this dynamic relationship of the three parties, Rama thinks that he should let SPAK lose credibility, because this does not endanger him as long as the DP does not increase its credibility. Rama thinks that if he manages to block the lifting of immunity and the suspension of Balluk, he will create the idea in society that SPAK has nothing to do, has no power over Rama. At this point, Rama can also greatly increase his power vis-à-vis SPAK. This is also Rama's goal with this fight against SPAK. He intends to sacrifice credibility and power in the first phase vis-à-vis SPAK, because this does not endanger him vis-à-vis the DP, and in the second phase, if he succeeds, then he becomes very strong vis-à-vis SPAK as well.
The DP in this equation simply stands still or gradually weakens. Rama's only major opponent is an additional or external power that can help SPAK in this fight, which is American support. This is a frightening variable for his future. Without it, he sets the equation himself, determines the variables himself and gives himself a solution. The opposition is a fixed parameter that fights to maintain only the algebraic value it has./mapo.al
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