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How independent Albanian media is challenging the government and becoming a reliable source for international journalism...
A year ago, the prestigious American newspaper The New York Times published a bombastic article about the connections of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić with the mafia and his country's criminal underworld. The article contained not just facts, but clear evidence of this almost anatomical connection, which had been vital to Vučić's long rule.
After its publication, a major process of contesting Vučić began in Serbia, which seems to have taken an irreversible path. This process did not weaken, not even when Aleksandar Vučić declared that he was ready to leave.
Even in Tirana, the article did not go unnoticed. Edi Rama, Vučić's political partner since he came to power, publicly expressed his shock at the developments. Since that day, public relations between Rama and Vučić have been almost forbidden.
Since then, Rama has begun to fear the weight of the media critical of him. Taking advantage of his influence in the Italian media environment and some dubious cross-connections, he did not intervene when the prestigious RAI show Report denounced the pact with Giorgia Meloni.
During this period, the Italian media focused more deeply on Albanian developments, studying reports on corruption, the mafia and organized crime. Italian journalists noticed that there were media outlets in Albania that wrote intensively about corruption affairs. Some of them concluded that the Pamphlet functioned as a kind of Albanian report, focused precisely on the discovery and publication of corruption and mafia affairs.
For two years, on the desks of Italian journalists and media, the Pamphlet has been considered a workbook for events in Albania. Many journalists, cross-checking each piece of information with their own sources, confirmed that almost everything published in the Pamphlet was true, reliable or confirmable.
From Pamfleti 's publications , Italian journalists have been encouraged to deepen their chronicles, often using the information for their own independent analysis. An example of this influence is the use of Pamfleti as a source by the largest Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera , to cover the Italian Prime Minister's vacation on the Greek island of Rhodes.
It is precisely the weight of this Albanian media, which is not dependent on Edi Rama and is among his most critical, that explains the campaign against it. The pamphlet has been attacked by the prime minister, through his close people and advisors, such as Baton Haxhiu and his friends.
Rama is sensing that important international media and political circles are becoming more interested in sources that reveal exploits outside his circle. That is why he is nervous and attacking. The attacks are not intended to intimidate Pamfleti , as previous attempts at blackmail failed; the goal is to prevent other media outlets from expanding their denunciations. The international citations are a clear indication that the work of independent media is being taken out of his control./ Pamfleti
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