Berisha's joke!

2026-06-16 22:13:50 / POLITIKË ALFA PRESS
Berisha's joke!

By Roland Lami

The proposal for a motion of no confidence against the Prime Minister, accompanied by calls for a "broad parliamentary unity", is presented as a serious institutional initiative, but in fact it is a big joke. It is enough to understand the limitations set out in Article 105 of the Constitution of the Republic of Albania, as amended in 2008.

The proposal in question highlights the paradox between the possibility of exercising a constitutional instrument and the impossibility in reality of producing a result. This is because Article 105, as amended in 2008, does not provide for the dismissal of the Prime Minister as a separate and independent act. It conditions the motion of no confidence with the election in the same vote of a new Prime Minister, with a majority of all deputies. This means that the incumbent Prime Minister cannot be dismissed alone, his dismissal is valid only if at the same moment there is a parliamentary majority for another Prime Minister.

This means that there is no possibility of a vote simply against the Prime Minister. Any attempt at overthrow is necessarily accompanied by the election of a new Prime Minister. Therefore, what is presented in political discourse as the start of a dismissal process is, at the constitutional level, a closed mechanism that is activated only if there is a majority in advance ready to immediately elect a new head of government.

Thus, everything remains a statement for political consumption, presented as an institutional challenge, but without any real effect beyond public communication. It functions more as a political signal than as a mechanism for change, relying on the idea that the act of declaring itself is enough to create the impression of movement even when the constitutional rule does not allow such an outcome without conditions that enable it. In this sense, the goal is not to activate the instrument, but to create the perception that the opposition is moving.

In the end, everything turns into a familiar political scene where the initiative is presented with admirable seriousness and pomp but is read by everyone as a movement that is not expected to change anything. The opposition plays as if it is setting in motion a real dismissal mechanism, while the public understands that the proposed instrument is null. Thus, a kind of unspoken agreement is created where the creator pretends to be making a movement and the public pretends to believe it, while the slogan Rama and Berisha go continues in the square.

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