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Skender Gjinushi won a second term at the head of the Academy of Sciences. When reporters reminded him that he did indeed win but that there was no one else competing with him, he gave a cynical response.
"Keep ringing the same bell" and that they "couldn't be wiser than 53 academics".
Most likely, this is true. The academics who voted for Skender Gjinush are supposed to be the nation's intellectual elite, descendants of Aleks Buda, Eqrem Çabej, Lasgush Poradec and many other names who honor the country.
The problem is that Gjinushi's election at the head of the Academy of Sciences has a completely different background. It is not a product of the confrontation of alternatives, projects, vision for the revival of the academy, but is simply a banal political bargain between Gjinushi and Rama.
For two decades, Skënder Gjinushi was the chairman of the Social Democratic Party, a permanent ally of the Socialist Party, but which was shrinking from one electoral process to another.
In May 2019, Gjinushi resigned unexpectedly and a few days later was elected head of the Academy of Sciences. The leadership of the party was initially taken by Engjëll Bejtja, but then the party passed to Tom Doshi, who had earlier been expelled from the Socialist Party.
Prime Minister Edi Rama was behind the scenes of the bargain that passed PSD to Tom Doshi. The prime minister never hid his support for Gjinushi.
As part of the secret agreement between Gjinushi and Rama, there was also the move that the prime minister made by outlawing the Academy of Albanological Studies. Through a formal control and strongly opposed by some scholars, the academy was outlawed so that its scholars were forced to move into the structures of the Academy of Sciences.
After 4 years, Gjinushi needed a second term, but the law prevented him. Legally, it was not allowed for a president to be elected for two consecutive terms and to be more than 75 years old. Socialists, it seems, intend to keep Gjinushi at the head of the Academy of Sciences for a long time. They controversially changed the law and lifted the bans, paving the way for his re-election for a second term.
The same bargain secured the majority a few more votes in parliament. In the 2021 elections, Tom Doshi received 3 MPs with the PSD logo. The Socialist Party received 74 MPs, but if the result would have brought it head-to-head with the opposition coalition, the three PSD MPs would have been a good guarantee to make the majority.
Also, in the May 14 elections, the Social Democratic Party had a spectacular result. It was ranked fourth in terms of the number of votes and positions in the municipal councils of Albania.
It should be emphasized here the power of Tom Dosh in Shkodër, without which the Socialist Party would not have won the municipality for the first time in 30 years.
Therefore, the journalists, who questioned the procedures that gave Gjinushi a second term, may not have conducted scientific studies and publications, but the fact that they dare to question the falsity of his election thanks to behind-the-scenes political bargaining makes them much more intellectual, than the academics who voted for Gjinush at the head of the institution. / LAPSI.AL
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