Lies as the last kilometer: why Berisha is rewriting Basha's 2021

2026-02-06 18:33:47 / IDE ALFA PRESS

Lies as the last kilometer: why Berisha is rewriting Basha's 2021

Whenever he finds himself facing a political wall, Sali Berisha chooses not to face reality, but to rewrite it. His periodic return to lies against Lulzim Basha is not a coincidence, but a reflex of a terminal political phase, where the lack of alternatives produces recycling of accusations.

Berisha is now in the final stretch of his political career. Internationally isolated, with no real choices ahead and no political solution in hand, he returns to the only tool he has left: the manipulation of collective memory, and where facts no longer serve him, lies come in.

The recent statement that “the DP won the elections in 2021, but Basha did not file complaints” is simply a half-truth, one of those he is very fond of saying. The truth is that in 2021 the DP won the elections but Basha also started filing complaints to document the electoral massacre.

First, because the process of denunciations has been public, systematic and documented. This is shown by the media that today unconditionally aligns itself with Berisha, such as Syri, which clearly reflected this process in real time. The Democratic Party had prepared dozens of complaints and a voluminous file with electoral violations, widely known as the "black file".

Secondly, today's so-called "Black Book" of Berisha is nothing more than a political copy-paste of the "Black Book" prepared by Basha in 2021, officially published by the Democratic Party and distributed to all partners and international institutions. This will now be a book that changes the author who holds it in his hands, but not the content.

We are not dealing here with political debate, but with what Hannah Arendt called “the replacement of reality with a narrative repeated so often that it is hoped to become credible.” The problem is that facts are stubborn and archives do not forget.

Berisha today is not fighting against Rama, nor against the regime he claims to oppose. He is fighting against recent history, because that history no longer serves him and as George Orwell warned, “the most efficient way to destroy people is to deny and erase the meaning of their memory”. This is exactly what is being attempted, erasing Basha's role, erasing the truth, shifting responsibilities and recycling himself as a “denunciator”.

Politics doesn't work with old copies of reality. Nor with recycled black books, and even less with lies that fall apart as soon as they are confronted with documents.

In the end, what Nietzsche wrote remains true: "The most dangerous lie is not the one told to another, but the one a person tells himself in order to survive," and Berisha today is talking to himself more than anyone else.

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