Academic Artan Fuga considers the recent government reshuffle as a decision influenced by domestic and international pressure, in order to preserve the country's European course.
He analyzes the replacement of Belinda Balluku with Albana Koçiu and other cabinet changes as an attempt to address long-articulated demands, including those related to the SPAK investigations. According to him, the prime minister has taken a step that aims to signal change at the government level.
"It seems to me that yesterday Rama provided a solution to what SPAK had been seeking for a long time. So, an attempt to withdraw in such a way that from the outside it would be considered a change for the entire government?" says Fuga.
The Prime Minister has also decided under pressure from internationals, who demanded that he take personal responsibility, emphasizes Fuga, who calls the name changes in the government without impact on the membership process.
"The movement of ministers who have been appointed for 2-3 months, which means that they have no autonomy, and this happens in a pyramidal governance model. The issue of integration is not a ministerial issue. But we have issues that have to do with the state of human rights, justice, corruption," adds the academic.
Integration for Professor Fuga is geopolitical, but the recent moves of Prime Minister Edi Rama with the acceptance of Donald Trump's invitation have also caused a rift with the EU: "Let's not forget Albania's participation in the peace board. But a rift between Albania and the EU has been created, because European foreign policy has not been presented."
Under these circumstances, it is further analyzed that Albanian society is facing a crisis of uncertainty about the future.
"Many aspects of society have remained in suspense: The relationship between justice and power, the relationship between the opposition and power, Albania and the EU or the USA. In everyday life, people say, 'I have a problem, I solved it.' In social life, it doesn't work like that, it can't be solved with a magic wand. And as long as the political class doesn't point out what the real problems are, but deals with propaganda, the problems will continue," Fuga told Top Channel.
Fuga also criticizes the opposition's strategy, which, without having the numbers of deputies in Parliament to exert pressure on the government, is making a mistake in the way it seeks accountability: "I know history, political science, at the moment when the political weight in Parliament does not play a role, it pays a kind of decline in the support it has in public opinion. There is a kind of doubt, distrust also due to the fact that many opposition figures are exhausted. Then they radicalize in street movements. Where there is talk of peaceful revolt, it ends with gasoline bottles thrown. The effect is zero!".
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