The chronology of the opposition’s relations with justice, these two and a half years, notes that it has taken what was due to it with difficulty, only after having previously lost much more. Therefore, this has nothing to do with a reflection of justice, nor with any change in balances from the outside. The regime has not softened, it simply plays with alternating tactics to produce the same results. Precisely for this reason, there is no room for illusions. Beyond the naivety of the militants happy with the liberation of their idol, there are no positive things on the horizon
By Andi BUSHATI
The lifting of restrictions on freedom for the opposition leader does not constitute any indication of the softening of the regime. It has nothing to do with the victory over an unjust measure, nor with a return to reason, nor with more equal conditions for the opposition, in relation to the elections and above all, it is not a signal that KAPSI has become SPAK again. Even after the decision of Judge Floreja Davidhi, no one should have illusions that justice has suddenly returned to be on the parties. Not yet knowing the backstage of this “surprise”, the office where it was decided for him or the calculations that have been made, the only instrument to explain the unknown present is the decryption through the recent past, that is, what has happened so far.
The one-year isolation of the leader of the DP was made possible thanks to the atmosphere created by a non grata lobbied by Tirana and announced in advance by the mouth of his direct political rival. Edi Rama addressed SPAK from the SP congress: “our patience is running out”. The Socialist Party maneuvered and drafted a bill to ban him from politics. To achieve this goal, prosecutors fabricated a weak file like that of the Partizani club.
Of course, a good part of Albanians would not be surprised if Sali Berisha were to be behind bars for the sins of a government exercised for 13 years, but with the criteria that were chosen to achieve this, anyone who has exercised even a little power could be imprisoned. This highlighted the two standards of the new justice and reinforced suspicions that it is being used as a weapon to eliminate political opponents.
Yes, so far, someone might say. But don’t we have the right to hope? Can we see things a little differently? Could something have moved after the elections in America? Or did the internationals realize that the ink came out with a grain of salt against the use of an independent power? Perhaps, when they see that Rama is trying to use the upcoming elections to give himself absolute power, they are those who, unable to stop him, want to create, through the DP, at least political balance?
All these suspicions become even more credible when you add another logic: did the opposition say that the prime minister wants to imprison the opposition, didn’t they add to this that he controls the justice system and don’t these two create a paradox in relation to what happened? So, according to this reasoning, Berisha should not have been released and until this happened, either it came as a result of justice being put back on track or otherwise from balancing interventions that surpass Rama? Of course, these questions require an answer. And this is precisely where the recent past comes to our aid, as an instrument to understand the present, or predict the future. Didn’t the same dilemmas, like the ones above, arise when the overwhelming majority in the DP was given the seal that belonged to them in a screaming manner? But if you think about it a little, you notice that the opposition got something rightfully, while on the other hand, it had to “surrender” its leader”.
Today, although it has Berisha free and the seal, thanks to prosecutors and judges, it has lost one of its few victories, that of Himara, it does not have Salianji in its ranks, simply because it denounced a trafficker and will enter a coalition with a former LSI scoundrel, whose destruction has been Rama’s objective since 2017.
The chronology of the opposition’s relations with the justice system, these two and a half years, notes that it has taken what was its due with difficulty, only after having previously lost much more. Therefore, this has nothing to do with a reflection of justice, nor with any change in balances from the outside. The regime has not been softened, it simply plays with alternating tactics to produce the same results. Precisely for this reason, there is no room for illusions. Beyond the naivety of the militants, happy about the liberation of their idol, there are no positive things on the horizon.
Even following the logic so far, it would not be surprising if today’s decision was a compensation for a new blow, either to Berisha’s political family, to weaken him, or to his personal one, to discredit him. The tactic: give alms with one hand and steal with the other, there are no signs of stopping. (Lapsi.al)
