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Albania does not need the Rama-Berisha coup, but a political and economic "earthquake"!
2026-01-05 16:24:09 / EDITORIAL
Invitation for a healthy debate, instead of a debate about the name of the "Technical Prime Minister" -
The kidnapping by the Americans of the president of Venezuela, universally considered an enemy of democracy, while by the Americans as the leader of a narco-state, has created euphoria among the opposition and critics of Prime Minister Rama in general. The narrative is very simple: Trump will order, if not the kidnapping, then the overthrow of Edi Rama from power in one way or another. And then, suddenly, it is Berisha's turn to power again.
It is true that Rama does not have friendly relations with either the Trump administration or democracy. But expecting what happened in Caracas to happen in Tirana is more than a summer dream. Meanwhile, the debate that continues to be active, over the name of the caretaker prime minister, is as fixed as that fairy tale where the old man and the old woman argued about what to name the grandson who would come to life when the son, who had not yet found a bride, got married.
In fact, the real debate that needs to be held in Albania today is neither about the fate of Rama, nor about Maduro, nor about the name of the caretaker prime minister, but about what Albania needs today.
The opposition is shouting loudly that the government is corrupt and incriminated, so it must go. It is true that the country needs political rotation as soon as possible. Yes, the government is corrupt, but the country does not simply need political rotation, much less a rotation/swing between Rama and Berisha.
Albania needs deep reform, even deeper than that of 1992, that will end the political transition.
-Serious and sustainable reform of the electoral system is needed, to free elections from the control of the party in power, to ensure free elections and to get out of the assessment of "hybrid democracy".
-The democratization of political parties and their financial transparency must be guaranteed by law, to put an end to private parties and informal financing from corruption money, or from other sources. -The
ties of politics with people from the underworld, who dictate appointments and decision-making, must be severed.
-The economy must be freed from the almost monopolistic control of a handful of companies, government clients, which have gone so far as to dictate laws and special decisions for their interests.
-The economy must be freed from dependence on concrete and dirty money and its vision and orientation towards agricultural production, agro-processing and tourism must be clarified.
-The freedom of the media must be restored, through its liberation from relations with public funds.
These problems have deepened from one government to the next. And today we are at a point where we are not talking about the corruption of individuals in power, but about the corruption and incrimination of entire links of power and the state. We are faced with the urgent need to free politics, business, the media and society itself from corruption and incrimination.
In the narrative of the opposition parties (PD and new parties) the problem is articulated, but not the solution. So far we have only heard the listing of corrupt affairs, with the hope that this will lead them to power. But the problems are deeper than corruption. Because corruption itself is not an extraterrestrial matter, it is a product of political reality; it is a consequence of unfair elections, of dirty money that finances politics and which then turns into predetermined tenders, while predetermined tenders lead to the creation of an economic-political oligarchy that corrupts and controls institutions... Thus the triangle P(ushtet) - P(ara) - P(ushtet) is created.
Will this be solved by removing a prime minister or a government? No! Because we have tried. The coming of the socialists to power in 2013 was greeted with great enthusiasm, but here we are. Because these diseases have long affected the entire political system, in power or not.
In the absence of platforms that address the solution to the problem, Albanians seem to have chosen to remain silent, even though they have reason to scream. They no longer see the solution in a change of leader, but in a complete shake-up of the political, legal and economic system, to produce mechanisms that inhibit evil, and not simply combat it after evil has done the damage.
Only in this way would the end of the political transition come.
But, unfortunately, the place of a healthy and intellectual debate has been taken by political fandom.
However, it is never too late and I think that the healthy part of society can make its contribution.
Happening now...
The revolution is over, Edi Rama continues calmly
Nga Bato Kosova
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