By Kreshnik Spahiu
The protesters are right to refuse dialogue with Edi Rama, but I have a question: Why don’t they talk to each other, sitting around a table without masks?
In every bloody war, even when thousands have been killed, the sides usually maintain channels of communication and conduct negotiations for a ceasefire or peace.
Israelis negotiate with Palestinians.
Americans negotiated with the Taliban.
Iran has negotiated with Washington.
Ukraine and Russia hold rounds of negotiations.
Edi Rama may step down today, but what happens tomorrow: Will early elections be declared, or will we have a technical government with a puppet prime minister chosen by Rama and Berisha?
For six months, hundreds of people have been saying that Albania, until elections, should not be governed by the PS or the PD, but by a technical government.
99% do not understand this concept at all. Albania has had three technical governments:
1991 – the government of stability.
1997 – the government of reconciliation.
2017 – Lulzim’s government.
In all three cases, the prime minister and ministers were proposed as technocrats rather than politicians, but from the table of dialogue between the parties. Afterwards, the procedure is: * They are decreed by the president. * They are voted on by parliament.
For these reasons, I want to ask the protesters with masks or flamingos: * If Rama resigns today, who will propose the new prime minister of the technical government tomorrow?
* Rama? Berisha? PS-PD?
* Masks? Flamingos? The people? Which of them, since they have neither a leader nor representation?
* And the ministers, who will propose them?
* And after the proposal, who will vote for them?
* Who decides how long this government will last?
The protesters tried to elect a citizens’ assembly of 300 people, and on the first day they gathered in a hall, they beat each other.
Can they tell us where this failed initiative of the “citizens’ assembly” disappeared?
Why, with these ridiculous experiences, do they want to make a revolution?
Do you know why foreign embassies, Washington or the EU, do not support the protest?
Because they have no one to negotiate with.
For six months they have wanted to hold meetings, and they have neither a leader, nor a spokesperson, nor a presidium. They are simply an anarchic movement.
Who will propose the names of the ministers and the prime minister, or will each protester pull out one name, and we’ll have 2000 candidates, and who will select them?
How can the US and the EU support Rama’s removal without a guarantee of who will come after him? Therefore, the protesters with masks must reveal the face of the person they want to replace Rama and show the people and the international community that this is the person who will lead Albania after Rama.
If these protesters do not organize, do not structure themselves, do not have representation, do not have a program, do not institutionalize, then they want neither Rama’s departure nor a technical government, but only the destabilization of Albania.
Time is passing and elections are approaching.
If the protest has no logo and no political party, then who will Albanians vote for on the ballot? Again PD-PD.
Change cannot come either from the Kamza high school or from the Laprake high school, because they do not have the right to vote – they are 18 years old.
We will not be able to remove Rama, nor will we be able to elect a technical government, unless the protesters, from Molotov cocktails, transform themselves into legal and institutional bombs to take power as political formations and not as guerrilla units.
Otherwise, in the end we will have that saying:
“Heroes fight the war, but the clowns take power again.”
Some say let Rama leave and let whoever wants come.
In fact, if the protesters do not have a name for prime minister, then Rama resigns, goes to elections and wins again, because he has the constitutional right to run again, which they cannot prevent.
In fact there is only one reason why the protesters do not organize: because among them have infiltrated a fifth column, the people of Berisha, Meta, Agron, Arlind, and even of Edi Rama, and they all put sticks in the wheels so that the party that should take power is not created, or so that a new leader does not emerge who would become prime minister of Albania, and be voted for more than Rama.
Albania needs solutions and elections, and these cannot be achieved either by Rama with tear gas or by masks with Molotovs.
Voting day is approaching, but voters still do not see new alternatives on the horizon.