FLASH
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This was not a protest about the troubles of the people, but about the troubles of a person who wants not to appear before justice. Even the protesters' slogans, more than Rama's departure, sought to express their support for Berisha.
Yesterday's protest of the opposition can neither be considered disobedience nor civil.
Civil disobedience means a movement where citizens reject a tyrannical regime and, peacefully, resist its power by disobeying the institutions.
Contrary to this, the first act of this civil disobedience took place in a legally correct manner, with permission from the police and within the specified time. Hence, a disobedience with permission and schedule, conforming to a legal request to the authority you are disobeying, produces a profound non sense.
But, apart from that, it makes no sense to invite the people to civil disobedience, when the leader of the disobedience himself remains isolated on the eighth floor obeying what he considers a criminal political trial organized by Edi Rama to kill the opposition.
If Berisha wants to push the people into civil disobedience, he should be the first to set an example: Get down from the balcony to the street and approach the citizens. But he does not do this because firstly, he is afraid of the consequences for himself and secondly, he knows very well that there is no disobedience. There is nothing to be had because the people are not with him despite the fact that he has come to the tip of his nose with Edi Rama.
On the other hand, the opposition's protest was neither civil, as it was neither civic nor popular. The participants were party militants who gather in an organized manner from the structure. The DP has tens of thousands of members, of which over 7,500 are chairmen of sections and groups of sections, as many as were more or less on the boulevard. This means that non-party people (even a good part of the party membership itself) were absent from the protest.
The protest was not civil and popular even in the goals and the way of development. It did not reflect the citizens in the way it was developed, nor could it represent the interests of the citizens in the motives for which it was made. This was not a protest about the troubles of the people, but about the troubles of a person who wants not to appear before justice. Even the protesters' slogans, more than Rama's departure, sought to express their support for Berisha. From "Rama ik", the opposition has already switched to "Berisha rri".
For these reasons, yesterday's fires could not warm the hope for change. People understand that they were not ignited to kill the fear of the regime, but to threaten to destabilize the international and institutions that push forward the investigation of untouchable political bosses. This is also the reason why this protest failed miserably, producing public outrage and almost no solidarity.
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