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Shkruar nga Skënder Minxhozi
A classic stance of his every time he has lost an election. He has not recognized the result, but has taken seats in the opposition quadrant.
We are apparently losing yet another opportunity to show as a state that we know and apply the rules of elections and the "chivalrous" codes associated with them. Those codes that say, for example, that the loser must recognize the result and congratulate the winner, or that the losing party must analyze those factors and circumstances that led to its defeat. Or even further, (God forbid!) the code of taking responsibility for the defeat, by stepping away from the helm of the party. Even more so when you have written something like this in the statute!
Nothing of the sort happened this summer, as the results of the May 11 parliamentary elections became clear, in which the Democratic Party suffered one of the most crushing defeats in its 34-year history. Throughout the summer, instead of analyzing the causes that led to the disastrous electoral results, Berisha and the narrow list of loyalists who speak of inertia whenever he asks them to, continued to struggle in the Sisyphean task of convincing Albanians that they won, but stole their victory.
Today, Berisha, as he prepares to appear at the door of the Parliament together with 49 other deputies to receive their mandates, declared that the opposition will never recognize the elections. A classic stance of his every time he has lost the elections. He has not recognized the result, but has taken the seats in the opposition quadrant. A three and a half decade old story, which shows that all those who talk about renewing the party, opening it up, changing local leaders and district leaders, should first look from the office of number one. Where leadership takes shape, where milestones, alliances are set, where lists of candidates and bosses of every type and color are drawn up. Of those who lost on May 11 after receiving the blessing of the chairman.
Duplicity, ambiguity, eclecticism, standing on two chairs, phrases with double meanings, double-facedness - this is one of the ancient diseases of the party elite in Albania, which over the years has transformed into a real political school where many careers of apparatchiks of all shapes and sizes have been forged.
What Berisha says doesn't make sense even to a child, but it's completely acceptable and normal in an environment where everyone winks at each other as they listen to the nonsense of not recognizing elections but accepting parliamentary mandates. "Well, you know what the Doctor is like, he gives the signal to the right and turns the wheel to the left," they say afterwards, as they have taken off their party costume and put on that of an ordinary citizen who sells his disdain for the one only in whispers as an exotic café commodity.
For the political calendar of Albania, its institutional and state life, the summer syllogism of the opposition has no weight and role. Rama laughs contentedly behind his red glasses as he listens to Berisha's sterile threat, while holding a pen and paper in his hand for the new government. On the other hand, the DP has long accepted what happened in the elections and has left only the Doctor to play the final pirouette of the closing telecomedy of the May 11 elections. An exit is needed in every stage act. Berisha is playing one of these.
50 men and women are preparing to enter the Assembly for the fourth time as opposition deputies. This is the only news. Not recognizing the elections is like an old vase kept for display in a room with closed windows where neither sun nor air has entered for 12 years.
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