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Democrats who once called Meta's partisan presidency normal now consider the office of president an extension of the prime minister's power, while socialists who seem to be defending him see him as someone foreign dictated to them by the prime minister's will.
It's a first and second time movie. It's a total déjà vu. It's a funny return of karma and the same grotesque scenario. It's almost the same actors with the same "dilemmas", but now they've changed roles. Who swore that the act of a president was black as night, today defends something almost identical as absolute white and vice versa. What's happening with the story of the presidential decree for early elections in Tirana is moving into the realm of madness. The Constitutional Court has decided to freeze the process until the constitutionality of Erion Veliaj's dismissal from office is reviewed.
This act, accompanied by another list of 6 points as garnish, is being used by the opposition as a reason for the president's dismissal. The accusation: he violated the constitution. By getting in the way and making noise with this action of the chairman of the parliamentary group Gazment Bardhi, a completely unnecessary mess and an idiotic waste of energy that will end up being thrown in the trash. The majority did not immediately qualify this act: "The president has exercised his powers in accordance with the law," said the "Bardhi" of the socialists, Taulant Balla. And in all likelihood, he said it very rightly. This is how it happened in the past. But then the parties had swapped places. The socialists said and did what the democrats swear today that they will do and vice versa. Which makes today's history more than funny.
Six years ago, in the second week of June 2019, former President Ilir Meta also opposed by decree his decree for the local elections of June 30. After the then opposition's brutal anti-system act of suicide by burning mandates, the country was in an explosive situation and Meta claimed that postponing the elections gave a chance to political solutions to the created crisis.
And politically he was probably right, but legally he was wrong. The president had no legal means at his disposal to become involved as a party in the resolution of the crisis. He only had the word and moral power, but the former was not listened to by the socialists who had elected him, while the latter he himself had gradually reduced by appearing as a party where he should have been above the parties. The political chronicle of the time has noted that yesterday's socialists made a resolution in the assembly, collected 55 signatures to dismiss the former president, while the democrats, numbed by the wrong fruit of the crisis they had cooked themselves, built a barricade to protect him.
This bet was settled by the Venice Commission. In a simple, clear and perhaps embarrassing way for all the institutions of the Albanian state, which the political quarrel drowns in less than a drop of water. “Although the president may have exceeded his constitutional powers, his actions do not justify an impeachment procedure,” was written in the Venice opinion at the time. So, there were violations, but not serious and without bringing irreparable consequences. This clear precedent could have been enough to prevent the opposition from launching a strange political action against another president, with whom it has an incomprehensible and often brutal, even banal resentment.
A good general never starts a battle with defeat in his pocket. It is not known why Berisha, the leader of the opposition who once liked to be called "Marshal", out of indifference or some other impulse, allowed Gazmend Bardhi to empty his gun and rush like a suicide soldier towards a predicted defeat. Thus, giving a completely useless victory to Rama's majority.
This is not the time to discuss Begaj's presidency. Democrats, who once called Meta's partisan presidency normal, now consider the office of president an extension of the prime minister's power, while socialists, who seem to be defending him, see him as someone foreign dictated to them by the prime minister's will.
There is no match more impossible than what is done with perception. And traditional Albanian politics, which has perception as proof, argument, and sole logic, did not miss the opportunity to fall into the trap of its ignorant rudeness once again. By giving the public the same ridiculous film the first time and the second time, with the same actors who have changed only the texts, but not the "natures" and portraits.
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