Elections can't cover a donkey's ears

2026-05-23 20:26:25 / IDE NGA ERGYS MëRTIRI

Elections can't cover a donkey's ears

It may seem ridiculous, but in reality these are the most difficult elections that Sali Berisha has ever faced.
Berisha could have faced anyone and, even if he did not win, he could have manipulated any process to keep the throne of his SHPK at all costs. But this voting process is worse than any opponent. It confronts him with himself and the profound inability to legitimize himself. He has entered into battle with great, irresistible forces, with which no one can win: Time and reason. They cannot be won by referendum, nor by camps of deputies who line up to assert banal absurdities in a desperate attempt to fake a non-existent normality for the situation in which that party finds itself.
Thus, Berisha cannot beat time and a mandate at the age of 82 to 86, being a non-ranking and internationally isolated, exhausted and politically consumed, tired and exhausted by dramatic losses and the inability to gather even 2 thousand people in the square, crushed by the deep lack of hope that he has sown in the party, is a mission not only impossible, but destructive.
Likewise, Berisha cannot fight against the reason that tells everyone with two minds that he has no chance of winning and is only serving as an obstacle to overthrowing Edi Rama, that he will have to leave in time, even more so when he returned to plunge it into the deepest defeat in its history, even more so when his candidacy is categorically prohibited by the statute that he himself has sanctioned with his own hands, and even more so when he, not only does not leave, but prohibits any competitor from running.
Under these conditions, Berisha is forced to hinder free speech and thought in the DP at all costs. Anyone who thinks will be considered an enemy, because thought - when it is reasonable - asserts the simple truth that threatens the legitimacy of the leader, the truth that says he must leave.
A fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm tells how a king's son had donkey ears and, in an attempt to hide this, the king threatened to behead the barber who was shaving him if he told anyone. The weight of silence weighed heavily on the barber and one day he dug a hole and asserted his truth to her, only to cover it with earth. From there, months later, a reed sprouted which a shepherd cut to make a flute. Surprisingly, the shepherd's flute only made one sound: "The king's son has donkey ears."
Berisha can threaten and blackmail all the barbers in the DP to open their mouths, but he cannot burn the flutes around him who play the tune of the bitter truth about him everywhere. The truth is covered up with referendums, so these are elections that cannot be won.

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