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What has been otherwise called "directed justice", which does not fight corruption, but administers it; just like a cat letting mice get well, and when it needs a trophy in Brussels, it grabs one of them by the tail and displays it on the podium, as proof of justice that "works"...
Whenever he has commented on the arrest of any of his former associates, Edi Rama has maintained a kind of human solidarity for the sake of the professional relationship or friendship he had with some of them. In addition to Arben Ahmetaj, the prime minister has expressed surprise, regret, and sometimes even irritation over the arrests of Vangjush Dako, Ilir Beqaj, Erjon Veliaj, Saimir Tahiri, Lefter Koka, etc.
But during an electoral meeting in Gjirokastra, while inviting Democrats to vote for him and the Socialist Party, Rama sought to convince them with the Chinese Deng Xiaoping's expression that "I don't care what color the cat is, I care that it catches mice."
The phrase, which once originated as a wise principle of governance for China’s shift towards a more market-oriented economy, sounds like a direct statement from the center of power control. To make the concept clearer, he added that “we are so good at catching our own mice… not just our neighbor’s mice.”
It was clear to everyone in the hall filled with Gjirokastra socialists that Rama was referring to corrupt officials who have ended up in prison cells, a public statement that, rather than being read as an affirmation of his moral strength, is a self-declaration as the absolute controller of the prosecution and the courts.
The debate about Rama's capture of the new justice system started early; when the socialists imposed key justice reform laws with cardboard force, then appointed their own people to the justice bodies, and finally, when SPAK ordered the arrest of two opposition leaders, Sali Berisha and Ilir Meta.
Even then, Rama denied the capture of SPAK and the Special Court, and the alibi on which the independence of justice rests is the arrest of those whom Rama calls "our rats" today.
It is about the arrests of Lefter Koka, Alqi Bllako, Vangjush Dako, Ilir Beqaj, Erjon Veliaj, the escape of Arben Ahmetaj, etc. and the handcuffing of several former socialist mayors. For some of them, Rama has expressed that he did not feel good that they are in prison cells. But the statement he made today in the Gjirokastra campaign, overturns the narrative so far.
The Prime Minister is no longer the government sorry for his friends in prison, but the autocrat who has decided to sacrifice some of his servants for a greater purpose; staying in power, while also nurturing the dream of integration into the European Union.
"We catch our mice too," Rama says proudly today, alluding to the arrests of Erion Veliaj, Saimir Tahiri, Lefter Koka, Ilir Beqaj and Ahmetaj's escape. A new narrative in the campaign for the May 11 elections, which portrays him as a cat who has the power to pull everyone's files out of the drawer, to decide when a case will explode in the media, when an investigation, arrest, or silent amnesty will be carried out for anyone.
What has been otherwise called "directed justice", which does not fight corruption, but administers it; just like a cat letting mice get well, and when it needs a trophy in Brussels, it grabs one of them by the tail and displays it on the podium, as proof of justice that "works".
And the problem is not that “the cat catches the mice.” The problem is that the cat controls the wheel, transforming SPAK and GJKKO into tools of repression, executing the political orders of the government.
Let's admit for a moment that it really doesn't matter what color the cat is. What matters is that it has decided to feed on its own mice to maintain power. But when a leader is willing to bite his friends to survive politically, imagine what he does to his opponents and citizens who stand up to him? / Lapsi.al
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