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Why has Rama lost power?
2026-11-09 10:51:34 / IDE
By Irena Beqiraj
In political life, there is a moment when power begins to fade long before you lose the election. Edi Rama seems to be facing this very moment, because he continues to govern, but no longer manages to generate authority.
Hans Morgenthau, one of the most important thinkers of political realism, reminds us that power is not simply the ability to impose your will on others. True power requires self-restraint, recognition of limits, and respect for institutions.
The problem with Rama's government is precisely this: he has transformed the state into an extension of his will. He chooses ministers who are so good that they become express mail for his messages, he has turned the entire administration into an instrument of persuasion and the parliament into a silent approval mechanism.
By wanting to control everything, Rama weakened the very system he runs, because a state where everything depends on one person is not a strong state, but a state that has lost the ability to function independently.
The relationship with criticism is also an indicator of the toxic relationship it has with power. In a democracy, the opposition, the media, and protests are not obstacles to governance, they are mechanisms that remind power that it is not and should not be unlimited.
Rama may still have a parliamentary majority, but, unfortunately for him, a majority is not a certificate of authority; he may have people who obey him, but that does not mean that the people who follow him trust his leadership. His polls today are showing him that he is governing on the ruins of his unlimited power.
A leader, a statesman, understands that power is temporary, that office is not property, and that his political legacy is not measured by how long he stayed in office, but by the institutions he leaves behind. He also prepares for the day when he will no longer be in power. Rama, on the contrary, seems to have created such a close and toxic relationship with power that distancing himself from it has become almost impossible. Power is no longer simply an instrument of governance, but has become its identity.
Although he has not yet lost power as a constitutional function, Rama has lost something much more important, the authority to exercise it in the name of an interest that goes beyond himself, an authority he lost precisely because he allowed himself to be everything.
Treating itself as inseparable from power, in the intensity of this toxic relationship, similar to an addiction, it used every means without limitation or distinction to maintain it, neglecting a universal lesson: Power that does not know how to set limits for itself will one day face the limits that society sets for it.
Knowing how to separate yourself from power means thinking and acting every day, all the time you are in it, with the awareness that one day you will have to live without it. Rama did not do himself this honor. Therefore, he will leave power as if it had been dispossessed of him.
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