FLASH
Shkruar nga Skënder Minxhozi
The Lapaj-Shabani clash is not a conflict of principles, but the fruit of the schemes and deceptive tactics they brought to the electoral campaign, in the hope that they would mitigate or divert the effects of the electoral code.
This is exactly what we are seeing being consumed these hours between two of the new figures who entered the May 11 campaign with declared intentions of producing a political revolution. Instead of revolution, they are actually producing disappointment among the thousands who voted for them, or ironic ridicule and scorn among those who did not trust them with their vote.
The Lapaj-Shabani clash is not a conflict of principles, but the fruit of the schemes and deceitful tactics that they brought to the electoral campaign, in the hope that they would soften or divert the effects of the electoral code. Of an unfair code for the little ones, it must be admitted. And as soon as the tricks they applied created internal quarrels regarding the parliamentary mandate they received, the partnership exploded, the political friendship broke down and the language went far to threats.
As usual, the one who is not slow to use accusations, denigration and public arrogance first is Adriatik Lapaj. A politician who claimed during the campaign that he had the keys to the elections in his hands and that he would decide everything himself after May 11. Like any young star who burns his own fuel, he sees himself today as a victim of political censorship, but also of the schemes he built with Shabani and his associates.
It is useless to listen to and seek to analyze the already hostile replies between them in these weeks after the elections. There is nothing political there anymore, but only personal resentment. The "Albania Becomes" coalition was a product of two political movements and as such the debate about who deserves the single mandate that produced 60 thousand national votes, is simply subjective. Each is pulling from himself in this public divorce process where family and relatives are also involved. It is an ugly scene and diametrically opposed to the reality that this coalition or even the other new parties offered before the elections.
The electoral strategy of spreading the focus across the entire territory of Albania and the diaspora, rather than one or two districts, seems to have fatally penalized the “Albania Becomes” coalition. The votes to produce mandates are there, but they are scattered across the entire electoral map of the country.
Thus, it is pointless to enter and share the quarrels for the remaining mandate now, since it was and is easily predictable that there would be a quarrel for that mandate, despite the oaths that "I give up, I will not enter parliament". As expected, someone came out, that usual unknown of these cases, who ruined the whole scheme. When the lists are filled with random people, with relatives and so on, then chance is the king of the world. And chance decided after the weak, improvised and fleeting political logic and strategy.
Sherri Lapaj-Shabani is the sad epilogue of a saga that only three months ago offered itself with the ambition to change the 35-year legacy of Albanian transition politics. What remains is a new parliament dominated once again by two old actors, while the “young” were practically left with a handful of flies in their hands. Because they learned tricks before the rules.
Leaving aside Shehaj, who was also a former MP, all the leaders of the new political movements remained outside the Parliament. The “Uncle Endri” syndrome, but also other mistakes before and during the campaign, left outside the parliament a mosaic of acronyms that could have had a greater role in today's Albanian politics. And it must be said that Qori, Shehaj, Lapaj and Shabani had a golden opportunity to create a challenging critical mass in the parliament hall, where the gravitational center of politics is.
Even these political movements, which refused to even cooperate with each other, result today de facto in the thick book of failures to overthrow the SP and the DP from their eternal pedestal. Because, among other things, one does not go to war against the political supremacy of Rama and Berisha with completely unknown names and names that mean nothing to anyone. And this is a bitter lesson, which Lapaj and Shabani are not the first to learn.
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