By Kreshnik Spahiu
“It is easier to fill a sack with chaff than to bring two Albanians together.” Fishta wrote this line in his works to ironically criticize the lack of unity, personal grudges and the difficulty Albanians have in finding a common language on major issues.
Since the beginning of the flamingo protests, anyone who advised the protesters to structure themselves into a new political movement was denounced as Rama’s man or an opponent of the protest. They were even bullied with insults.
In reality, there was a suspicious fact in the protest between their demand for Rama’s resignation and their refusal to put forward their leader as a candidate for prime minister. At first this seemed like naivety, but time is showing that they were on a mission.
They wanted to go to the elections only with PD-PS logos and with two candidates: Rama and Berisha.
The refusal to create their own rival list in the elections, just like the Belgrade students, was illogical, but very soon it will make sense.
They will do exactly what Edi Rama and Sali Berisha want: they will create several divided opposition parties.
Neither was interested in the creation of one party, but in several new parties that will fight each other.
The first five parties are being announced these days and five others in January:
• “Diaspora Party”
• “Free Albania Party”
• “Nationalist Party”
• “Democratic Islamist Party”
• “Student List”
• “Flamingo Party”
• “Green Environmentalist Party”
• “New Albania Party”
• “Albanian Intellectual Movement”
• “Albania Force”
Officially, the first five parties have started the procedures, but they still have quarrels among themselves over who will be chairman.
It is not ruled out that, by the 2029 elections, these ten new parties will split into several factions and become 20 or 30 parties.
There are many naive people who say: “As long as Rama and Berisha leave, let a dog or a cat take over.”
In fact, the opposite is happening: Rama and Berisha are continuing their calm and secure journey, changing the electoral system with 101 MPs and with open lists in a national proportional system.
This means that the minimum threshold to enter parliament will become 5% and that at least 150,000 votes will be needed to enter the Assembly.
Then we will understand that the protest, even if it fills the lists with dogs and cats, will have no chance, with ten new opposition parties, of ever setting foot in the Assembly.
Apparently, the time has come for some of the protesters to remove their masks and for the people to understand that they are not a sack of chaff, as in Gjergj Fishta’s verses, but some red lice, who, in order to be first, will create dozens of parties solely to become chairmen, without bringing us any change from the two horsemen Rama-Berisha.
Unfortunately, the anti-establishment “revolution” is bringing water to the mill of Rama and Sali.
Dozens of new millers are copying the ugly model of the old jackets.
They produced neither a leader nor a movement because leaders are not created but are born as such from the first day out of the need and crisis for change.
Five months were enough to understand that among them there were no born leaders but some species genetically modified in the laboratories of those who still do not want a new Albania.