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Love in the time of cholera, in Rama's state!
2026-09-26 18:14:31 / IDE
By Ermal Peçi
I don't know why, reading the latest developments related to the former head of the secret service, her relationship with Ergys Agas and the whole story that is being publicly revealed, I was reminded of Gabriel García Márquez's novel, "Love in the Time of Cholera."
An extraordinary novel where love, infidelity, waiting, disappointment and the contradictions of human life are intertwined. Today's Albania is of course not Márquez's novel, but its title seems to be written for our political reality: "Love in the Time of Cholera", in the state of Edi Rama!
What is being attempted to be reduced by some media to a story of personal relationships is much more serious than that, the degradation of the state led by Edi Rama. It is not an issue that is on the radar of even the most hawkish, but it shows the misery that has gripped this government.
In 36 years of hybrid democracy, with all the problems that Albania has gone through, we have hardly seen such a situation: a former head of an intelligence institution is burdened with serious allegations of disclosing or distributing information to persons linked to criminal interests.
Vlora Hyseni did not arrive at the top of one of the most sensitive institutions of the state by chance. She was placed there with the trust and political support of Edi Rama. The Prime Minister cannot take credit when appointing his people and then completely distance himself from political responsibility when serious accusations fall upon them.
In politics, responsibility does not begin only when it is proven that you yourself have committed a criminal offense. Responsibility is also political: who did you appoint, why did you appoint them, what control did you exercise and how did the institution function under your government? Therefore, the question that must be asked today is very simple: Did Edi Rama not know what Vlora Hyseni was doing? This story, however shocking it may turn out, cannot be seen in isolation from what has happened during the years of Edi Rama's government.
After more than a decade in power, corruption allegations, investigations into officials, files on the influence of criminal groups on elections, and suspicions of relationships between people in power and the underworld cannot be explained away indefinitely as "individual cases."
The architecture that Edi Rama has built within the Albanian state is a frightening panorama with people convicted of corruption, connected to crime, thieves, immoral people, and people who serve gangs but not citizens.
The moment criminal groups influence votes, collaborate with officials, seek out their representatives, or reach the institutions that administer the most secret information of the Republic, we no longer just have a corruption problem. We face the risk of state capture.
A captured state is not one where criminals simply walk free on the streets. It is much worse. It is a state where crime no longer needs to fight institutions, because it manages to find people within them with whom it communicates, negotiates or cooperates. Herein lies Edi Rama's greatest political responsibility.
After so many years in power, the Prime Minister cannot behave as a commentator on the system he leads. He is the political leader of the administration established during his mandates. The leaders were appointed during his government, the ministers were his, the parliamentary majority is his and the responsibility for the political standard of the state built during these years cannot always be passed on to someone else.
At this very moment, SPAK is becoming the biggest problem for a government that for years has been accustomed to controlling almost the entire political space. File after file, investigation after investigation, justice is getting closer and closer to the highest levels of power. Tahiri, Dako, Ahmetaj, Veliaj, Balluku, Beqaj, and many other names are showing that SPAK is tightening the noose around Edi Rama's government.
The more files are opened, the harder it becomes to explain everything with the old formula of “individual responsibility.” Edi Rama may distance himself politically from anyone who ends up under investigation, but after so many years of governing, it becomes increasingly difficult to separate the Prime Minister from the system he has led and the people who have risen to its top.
Therefore, the latest story should not end up as a soap opera with wiretaps, personal relationships, and rosy headlines. At its center should be a much bigger question: how safe is the Albanian state from the people the state itself has placed at the top of its institutions?
In Marquez's novel, love defies time, distance, and illness. In today's Albania, we face a much less romantic challenge.
Our cholera is corruption.
Our cholera is impunity.
Our cholera is the penetration of criminal interests into politics.
Our cholera is the state that Edi Rama built.
Political history has shown that when the state degrades, the bill is not paid by Rama, nor by ministers, nor by those in power. It is paid by the citizens. That is why perhaps this is the true title of our history: “Love in the Time of Cholera, in the State of Edi Rama”, in a state where the question is no longer who loves whom, but who controls whom.
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