Speech by an unnamed socialist at the National Assembly of the Socialist Party

2026-11-15 10:50:12 / IDE NGA IRENA BEQIRAJ
Speech by an unnamed socialist at the National Assembly of the Socialist Party

Dear friends,

Speaking in this Assembly is an act that requires a certain amount of courage. It's not that speaking is not allowed here; on the contrary, freedom of speech in this forum is guaranteed, as long as it does not risk turning into freedom of thought.

As is customary, I am starting with a thank you to the President, who has just given us another of his extraordinary speeches, where thoughts travel a long way and the conclusion, if there is one, always remains a matter of interpretation.

I listened to his speech with the attention of a true socialist. It must be said that the president speaks at some length and, at this point, competes only with women, who, although numerous in number in the party and government, have rarely had the opportunity to say seven words in these forums. Anyway, I don't want to get off topic. The president spoke to us about Europe, about economic achievements, about protest, about challenges and about the opposition. Undoubtedly, he also stopped at our product of pride, justice. For a moment, I naively thought that he would also talk about the serious crisis within us caused by the investigations, but apparently it was not on the agenda.

It's obvious from our faces that participating in this party's forums feels like a kind of death. I'm still not sure if it's better to talk and die, or to die slowly, without talking.

Here among us there are people who remain silent because they have nothing to say. There are others who have much to say, but have learned to weigh every word with the care of one who knows that a sentence can cost more than a career.

There are also those who are older, who have been so used to not being heard that they have stopped thinking. But unfortunately for us, what is not said does not disappear. It accumulates in silence, becomes anxiety, disappointment, bitterness and, in the end, self-destruction.

A self-destruction that we have so far resisted, having transformed ourselves into a party that is not afraid of the truth. On the contrary, we have built an extremely careful relationship with it. The truth must be told, but the time, the place and, above all, the audience must be chosen.

We have never hesitated to tell each other the truth at lunch tables, in coffee shops, and in meetings with friends. We are all brave there. We complain, we curse, we criticize mercilessly even the President, after all, even the king is criticized behind his back. 

But as soon as we leave the cafes and enter the meeting rooms, a miracle happens, all the different thoughts merge into a single thought and the truth is forgotten to grow old in peace.

Or, if we are publicly asked about corruption, we explain that we are fighting it. If we are asked about responsibility, we remind the public that responsibility is individual. If we are asked about the party, we tell them that the party is bigger than the individual.

And if some mischievous person asks us why some individuals have become bigger than the party and have treated the state as private property, we must be prudent, because this is not the time to create problems.

Dear friends,

I want to focus on another achievement, perhaps the most important to celebrate after 13 years in power, unity.

We have built a party where unity is so perfect that there is no longer any need for discussions. Once, when the party was, as our Chairman says, a brothel, we discussed ideology, program, and the direction of the country. We had different opinions, debates, clashes, and sometimes even ideas. It was a difficult time, because no one knew for sure what to think.

Today we have overcome that primitive phase of internal democracy. Today we have moved from pluralism of ideas to pluralism of ways of saying the same thing. Now we discuss how we should interpret, in our own words, the opinion of the Chairman. 

This is an achievement that should not be underestimated. We have created a communication system par excellence: The President speaks, we listen; The President decides, we support; The President explains why he was right, we wonder who ever brought this up. In this way, we have avoided many unnecessary debates, saved time and significantly increased the efficiency of our meetings.

During this improvement, our applause has also become more sophisticated. We don't always expect to understand what was said, we just need to know when to applaud. This is a skill that comes with experience, and fortunately, there are many experienced people in this party.

Of course, we also have some small problems, but we shouldn't dramatize them.

For example, in this party, a career is not always a matter of merit, it is often also a matter of patience, care, and the ability to not ask the wrong questions at the wrong time.

In our party, it is not enough to be good, you must also be suitable; it is not enough to have contributions, you must understand that past contributions do not necessarily give you the right to have an opinion in the present.

After all, we have all accepted that no one is important and indispensable to the party unless they are first important and indispensable to the Chairman.

This is how we have built a special meritocracy, where the greatest merit is not what you have done for the party, but what the Chairman thinks you can do for him.

I see you are a bit tired, not as enthusiastic as before, so I am closing by emphasizing that it is no coincidence that this Assembly took place in the Bay of Lalzit. The sea is the ideal place to throw away everything you don't want to keep on the shore. But, as someone who grew up by the sea, I want to remind you that the sea has a bad habit, from time to time, it brings to the shore exactly those things that we think it had sunk.

Thank you!

Po ndodh...