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Shkruar nga PamfletiEdi Rama is well aware of the weaknesses of the system and knows exactly where the votes are.
Edi Rama does nothing by chance. Every word he says in public, every meeting he organizes, and every joke he makes is part of a calculated strategy to win votes and not to give advice or to be a philosopher, although he may do so on occasion.
And when you see that he holds consecutive meetings outside Tirana with women and girls whom he hugs, praises, and gives the microphone to, while he leaves men in the corner, addresses them with irony, calls them "autistic" or "squeaky", it is clear that we are dealing with a political strategy built on a new demographic reality: an aging, empty Albania, with a higher percentage of women in statistics than men.
This is precisely where Rama's objective for May 11th lies: women's votes.
According to the 2023 Census of INSTAT, Albania has only 2 million 412 thousand 113 inhabitants, a significant decrease from 2011. The average age has reached 42.5 years, increasing by 7 years. The population is aging rapidly and constantly leaving. There are more women than men: 50.4% are women and 49.6% are men. At first glance, a small difference, but in Rama's electoral logic, this translates into a measurable advantage: more women in the population means more women on the voter lists, and especially more women in rural areas, where Rama invests more in projects, aesthetics and visual propaganda.
Women are the most disciplined voters. They go to the polls more regularly, are more loyal to the party they feel represented by, less involved in aggressive political debate, less volatile. And Edi Rama knows this very well. He has long understood that investing in women brings him more electoral returns than clashing with men, who are more cynical, more critical and more inclined to change camp or boycott altogether. The Albanian man is tired of political promises and today is more of an ironic spectator than a convinced participant. Therefore, Rama is no longer interested in speaking to him with respect. On the contrary, he often uses him as a "toy dog", to provoke an emotional reaction in the other audience, the women.
When Rama calls a man “autistic” or an opposition member “a sycophant,” he is not talking about that individual. He is building a narrative where the man is incapable of change, of direction, of governance, while the woman is the alternative, is hope, is “moral,” “ladylike,” “wise.” This is not offensive language, but part of the structured propaganda to praise one gender at the expense of the other. And not for equality, but for control. At the end of the day, it is easier to control a voter who feels valued than a voter who feels despised.
In this context, Rama has transformed the Socialist Party into a party that skillfully uses emotion and gender identity as political weapons. His campaigns are no longer with flags and slogans, but with white chairs in the streets, with women talking about their troubles, with personal stories, with sensitivity, with public praise and with direct promises for women who “hold the back of the family and the state”. These are words that the Albanian man hears and feels that they are putting him out of the game. And this is exactly what Rama wants: to no longer have any emotional rivalry with men, but to win elections silently, through a disciplined, calm and grateful army, women.
Meanwhile, the opposition, mainly the DP, continues to campaign like in 2005: meetings with old men, dry speeches, technical criticism, legal jargon and a smile with difficulty. No empathy, no emotional investment. They continue to talk about crime, corruption and immigration, while Rama talks about the mother, the working woman, the woman who leads, the woman who sacrifices. And in a country where women have taken on the shoulders of the family, the work, and the emigration of men, this is pure political marketing.
So, if Rama attacks men and exalts women, he is not doing it out of idealism. It is not that he is building a more equal society, on the contrary, he is playing with divisions to build an electoral majority. He knows the weaknesses of the system well and knows where the votes are. And as long as men are noisier, but more passive, and women are quieter, but more loyal, Rama will continue to organize campaigns with bouquets, not with battles. Because where there are more emotions, there are also more votes. And in today's Albanian politics, votes are not won with the right, but with emotional care, propaganda and buying.
And this care, for the moment, is reserved only for women./ Pamphlet
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