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Shkruar nga Martin Leka
While the tours and visits of leaders or candidates for MPs to fancy businesses are the ugliest political manual for a grotesque theater.
Seven days from May 11, the outcome of the elections is becoming increasingly clear, despite our wishes.
The projection, not just public polls, has unequivocally determined the winners and losers. And they are known.
For another week we will continue with the daily routine: 200 euro minimum living wage, 500 euro minimum wage, 1250 euro average wage, consumer card, zero taxes for so many months... The grand lie!
On the other hand, approximately such promises. Plus Albania in the European Union. Let the latter not be a lie…
Another activist who supports her ex-husband, showed that she is sure of the votes she wants and seeks for her. Her calculation is much worse than multiplying 7 X 7 to make 42. Because the lady was talking with statistics: in Tirana alone there are 120 thousand voters from Skrapallinj and 400 thousand from Dibra. Now calculate for yourself the extent of the lie and how many voters Albania should have, 10, 15 or 20 million inhabitants (?!), if in Tirana alone from two peripheral districts we have 520 thousand voters…
While the tours and visits of leaders or candidates for MPs to fancy businesses are the ugliest political manual for a grotesque theater.
Let's leave the theater and continue with folklore. Edi Rama opened the electoral campaign in "Skënderbej" Square, where the personalization with his name was clearly visible in the final slogan. We also saw folk songs and instruments. Sali Berisha's PD immediately anathemated the PS and Edi Rama for folklorism. However, it did not last long and "exploded in Kuçovë". Sali Berisha gathered his people at a rally there and was seen moved by the original song dedicated to himself and LaCivita: -O shkrepi dielli/ Shkrepi drita/ Seç na vjen LaCivita/ O doctor, doctor Berisha/ Raise those two fingers high... Acoustic pollution and the tallava itself.
We could go on and on with endless examples of similar stigmas and gaffes that circulate endlessly on social media and beyond. Not only of political leaders, but also of the entourage that follows them.
The latest were oral varieties of violence, unleashed by an intellectual and diplomat MP with cannibalistic appeals that no one takes seriously, except for some "brave" who stands behind the "great man" and who thinks he's eating him alive... his flesh.
Beyond these, the campaign has been quiet compared to previous ones, with the hope that we will not break the bad streak in these remaining 7 days.
What is reflected and dominates in these elections is the transformation of politics. From politics as a collective art, it has turned into an individual art. More precisely and without elaboration, the parties are the leaders. They dominate, without exception. Old and new. Parties are no longer known by names, they are known by their leaders. They are the party of the President. All of them. Old and new. Parties have lost their essence, internal democracy. Parties seem to have lost their perspective. We cannot say whether it is the distant past, the recent past or the present, but this situation seems unhealthy for democracy. Or worse, we do not know what kind of regime will arise from a democracy with a party that only produces leaders.
In this political landscape, when the results are known a week before the elections, two silhouettes are clearly visible: a strong leader and a problematic one. And sometimes even the inverse. Edi Rama and Sali Berisha.
The first is about to break its own record in a week. With achievements and failures, with clarity and confusion, with corruption in government and close associates in prison, with an effective foreign policy and an incompetent administration and its leaders who have the institutions they run as their fiefdom, with an economy that is statistically growing but that paradoxically in the country he governs almost nothing is produced except tourists, with a growing gap between the rich and the poor, the right-wing leader of the left will be the Prime Minister of Albania in a week for the fourth time in a row, like never before.
The second is getting ready to be the second. This one will also break his own record. Of losses. He could have been left with that little bit of history if he had known how to withdraw from politics in time. With a party that he destroyed and divided himself, with his closest associates that he declared enemies, with the past that follows him like a shadow and with the present that he is not adapting to, with a leadership without vision and incapable of creating the spirit of change, with the stamp of "non grata" from the USA and Great Britain, he took back the Democratic Party by force and this ready-made machine that was the Democratic Party, instead of adding a gearbox, he added brakes. He needs someone from America for makeup and he found the right one, the person close to Trump. But LaCivita only brought him a hat in exchange for who knows how many hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. His strategy proved to be out of context with the Albanian reality and especially with the reality in which Sali Berisha's party finds itself.
On the other hand, the new parties should be appreciated most for their courage and audacity to compete, perhaps they will be a seed sown so as not to leave the political soil where they are being sown barren. At the end of the week, the prognosis: we will have the old that does not go away and the new that does not appear...
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