Rama and Berisha, the losing battle with the public

By Indrit Gjizeli

The loss of power over public opinion is perhaps the first clear loss that the "Flamingo Revolution" has produced for Rama and Berisha. After all, political authority would have no guarantee without the seizure of the throne of public opinion. Therefore, both Rama and Berisha openly showed their nervousness when the protesters' banners were joined together in a kiss, interwoven with the chants "Rama in prison, Berisha in prison." 

But why this nervousness of Rama and Berisha in the face of the call that brings them together?

In any political situation, political propaganda needs public support. Dictatorships take art to their side, defining the line of ideas in every field, so that everything the dictatorship needs appears to be the will of the people. ("What the people want, the Party does," was written in most of the slogans of the communist dictatorship). 

For example, Rama continues to proclaim the fact that he has the people behind him, as he counts the "contract with 800 thousand Albanians". On the other hand, Berisha calls "the real people" those who demand Rama's removal, and "the opposition of the opposition", those who call "Rama in prison, Berisha in prison", because for him the "real people" are not with him.

In fact, the warning for these protests came precisely from Rama's arrogance towards those who voted for him and from Berisha's insistence on building a narrative with enemies inside and outside the opposition.

But for citizens, especially for the young and those coming from the diaspora, both fables, both the one with "fascists" from Rama, and the one with "opposition of the opposition" from Berisha, have no value, since the voice of both has no power in that square, where only one motive prevails - Stop those who behave like patrons of voters! And this applies to both, Rama and Berisha, who, in addition to being opposed by the protesters, also risk losing the authority built among their supporters. For example, Rama apologized to the patronage supporters who, according to him, have the right to say "to fuck the party", since it has not respected them. While Berisha had to make many pirouettes of statements to seem that he supports the protest, which in all likelihood, will more abduct him than support him.

Meanwhile, in the face of the youth protest, Rama and Berisha have found themselves completely unprepared for the new opinion makers, who are neither the artists they have bought as many times as they wanted nor the pseudo-intellectuals from the university field that they have subjected as concubines of interests. The real opinion makers are the creative masters of social networks, who have easily undone Rama's efforts to intimidate influencers and Berisha's efforts to intimidate banner makers. 

But will Rama and Berisha manage to regain authority?

Rama is trying to debate with anyone in an extreme effort using invitation, bullying, imitation, pressure, and everything else that would make him a conversationalist with those who protest. While Berisha, with zero impact even after the American visa, has exceeded any prediction of swallowing the rejections from the protesters, with the hope that when the institutional electoral track returns, he will carry the logo of the largest opposition.

However, the protest has already, by equating Rama and Berisha, put the belief in the public opinion market that both leaders have mocked the voters, collaborating in their interests and those of a group of businessmen who sponsor both parties. Even the arrests and investigations of a group of businessmen with people close to Rama and Berisha seem to be an event that coincides exactly with this belief of the public opinion, which after two weeks of protests seems to no longer believe either what the leader of the SP or what the leader of the DP says.

This does not mean that Rama and Berisha will not fight to regain public opinion. But, now, both of them no longer have that hand, as the protest has taken away from them the opportunity to decide what is publicly debated in Albania today. And both of them know that nothing is certain in politics as long as you do not own the opinion of those you are facing! /Alfapress.al

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