The siege of Rama and Berisha by SPAK!

2026-09-27 16:49:22 / EDITORIAL NGA ERMAL PEçI
The siege of Rama and Berisha by SPAK!

By Ermal Peçi

Political history has shown that no one enjoys political power forever, no matter how powerful or influential they may have been. History has its own irony: often, power is overthrown not by directly striking the king, but by removing, one by one, the stones that protect him. As Lord Acton warned: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Today, at Rinas airport, those who have been two of the people who have held power for the longest time were exchanged at the doors of Rinas, where the cameras did not penetrate and no one can say if there was a meeting or not. It seems like a staged meeting, for the sole reason of giving a symbolic message, given that the American ambassador Eric Wend has come to Albania, but also for the fact that SPAK hit the head of the secret service, Edi Rama's trusted man, who got that position thanks to him.

It seems that SPAK has used a strategy that is increasingly narrowing the noose for Edi Rama and Sali Berisha. At first, it started to knock down the leg of the trinomial, Ilir Meta, who is now forgotten in the cell and seems like a distant political memory. Then it approached Sali Berisha, whom it is investigating for three files: Partizani, Gërdeci and 21 January.

In politics, as in chess, the king is not always the first piece to be hit; often the game is won by taking away the pieces that protect it.

While the files on Berisha were being investigated by SPAK, Rama, along with his media "yes-men" and his MPs, were beating their chests about how SPAK was doing a good job, how justice functioned, and that they would never go against justice.

SPAK's strategy was completely different, to bring to light a different picture: that neither Rama nor Berisha wanted justice when it approached them. The test of power is not how it behaves with justice when it strikes its opponent, but how it behaves when justice knocks on its door.

SPAK began to attack the government: Tahiri, Beqaj, Ahmetaj, Veliaj and, finally, the untouchable man, Balluku. Here Rama had to drop his mask and show 83 cards to prevent SPAK from arresting Belinda Balluku. And if this whole situation were not enough, SPAK hit the Prime Minister in the heart, at the AKSHI, but also at Edi Rama's secret service, which was collaborating with Ergys Agas.

Edi Rama, abandoned at the UN, where he went for high-level meetings and returned with a selfie with Taulant Balla, today returned to the attacks on SPAK from Rinas airport. He reminded America and the EU of "Noc Rroku", but did not talk about the fact that the system he has built is completely ruined.

Edi Rama's government is facing its greatest paradox: the longer you have run a system, the harder it becomes to say that you are not responsible for what it produces. Now, with the arrival of the American ambassador, political Tirana feels that it is no longer calm. Two of the political dinosaurs are surrounded by SPAK, a genuine American investment, where the noose is now getting tighter.

Machiavelli based part of his political thought on the instability of fate and power: he who seems invulnerable today may tomorrow find himself faced with circumstances beyond his control. In chess, there is a moment when the king is still standing, but the game is practically over: the pieces protecting him have fallen, the spaces to escape are closed, and every move he makes brings him closer to the end.

The same thing often happens in politics.

It is not necessary to overthrow the king immediately. It is enough to cut off his arms, topple his fortresses and close the exits. Then the siege does the rest. Because the end of a power does not necessarily begin the day the king falls; it may have begun much earlier, the day the figures who protected him began to fall one by one. 

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