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Sazan's project, which has been receiving confirmations from the media and serious actors in the US and Europe for months, has the potential to create a slight turbulence in the opposition leader's plans for the American isolation of the prime minister from the new winners of the November 5 elections.
This is just one of the big dilemmas that are currently troubling the current DP and its leader. Other dilemmas, if we want to go further, have to do with the stance towards SPAK (Berisha calls it Skap, Bardhi says he respects it), or with whether or not Meta should be included in the safe lists of candidates in the elections. As for the calls for unity among the opposition parties, there is no dilemma here: the DP has already surrendered. It does not want fellow travelers on the losing course it has decided to follow on May 11.
When they thought they got rid of Joe Biden's "communist" administration, another unexpected underwater rock has emerged in the DP: the enigmatic Sazan Island project of Donald Trump's daughter and son-in-law! A kind of danger from those who resemble a last-minute bargain or influence exchange, whose dimensions and consequences are unknown. Right now, when the "red democrats" were expelled from Washington, a tourist project by the Jared-Ivanka couple emerges, one of those that Edi Rama likes to look at in models and renderings, sell on social networks and promote in speeches and tourism statistics, which shatters all expectations.
Berisha's attack on Jared Kushner's project in Sazan, saying it was an act of influence peddling by Rama, shows the frustration that this possible turn in relations with the new American administration has caused in the DP. Which, in the imagination of the Tirana Democrats, should have come to Edi Rama's door with a whip in hand, and not with models of villas and hotels.
In three days, Donald Trump will enter the White House. It is the event where Sali Berisha has deposited his last hopes for getting out of the iron cage of non grata status, despite the political and electoral benefits that this decision would bring with it. Sazan's project, which has been receiving confirmations from the media and serious actors in the US and Europe for months, has the premises to create a small turbulence in the plans of the opposition leader for the American isolation of the prime minister from the new winners of the November 5 elections.
There is no way to know today what influence a project like this could have on official Washington's attitude towards our political elite, towards the prime minister and the leader of the opposition, but it would not be science fiction to predict an increase in American attention towards Albania, even from the fact that this would be the most important American investment in our country (1.4 billion USD), since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Albania and the United States. And as is known, Americans always work with governments, not with the opposition.
The moment of President Trump's inauguration is approaching, along with the renewed buzz about the Sazan project, as well as the granting of strategic investor status to the construction company by the Albanian government. This tangle of contradictory circumstances that are coinciding in a fatal way like in a movie script, naturally creates extreme humor in Tirana, where every development, every premise, every signature or seal, is seen as a mystical extension of the American hand, as a supreme sign of their will, as a move under the table that raises or lowers the careers of politicians.
For months, Jared Kushner's project has been receiving blessings or curses, as the case may be, from the joyful Albanian people of social networks. A real challenge has begun regarding the effect that the Trump couple's island hotel will have on the fate of those who govern us in Tirana. Even at this point, we are who we have been: good and naive Albanians who first need to think about how good such a project will do to the economy, how many tourists it will bring, what the benefits would be for the entire country, etc.
Egocentrism has its eternal home here. There is no force in the world that can convince us that others are not thinking about us all the time, without taking their eyes off us. In a big world with eight billion people inside, this is a whim that makes you laugh.
So when the same people happen to shout "Long live Trump" and then "Down with Kushner," those who hear us should not take us seriously, nor with anger. Let's simply remember that those we are cursing or praising are taking note and analyzing our every stupidity. An old disease!
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