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Was 'Mali' impregnated and gave birth to an 'Albania'?

Politiko 2025-05-16 12:17:08

Was 'Mali' impregnated and gave birth to an 'Albania'?

By Genc Burimi

The imagination of a government has no limits to prolonging its own life.

Enver Hoxha's regime in Albania was clear, pluripartyism was prohibited by the Constitution and suppressed by the penal code. Putin's regime in Russia allows pluripartyism by law, but then either imprisons and kills opponents like Navalny, or leaves them as a facade and buys them off. In Turkey, Erdogan, for his part, has chosen the method of using justice to neutralize the opposition, justifying himself by saying that he does not interfere in the decisions of justice. The regime of the Generals in Mali, an African country, is offering these days another and even more original version for the extermination of the opposition.

The idea is to create a mixed variant between a mono-party system and pluri-partyism, allowing through the Constitution only a limited number of "opposition" parties, no more than two.

Mali's generals had promised to hold regular and democratic elections in 2024. Instead, they issued a decree this week, on May 13, decreeing the "dissolution of all political parties and organizations."

The Malian government hereby announces the drafting of a new law to determine the conditions for the formation and functioning of future political parties, as well as their limitation to two or three major parties.

Each of these few new parties that will be allowed to be created will have to block large amounts of money as collateral. With cynicism, the government promises an inclusive political process to draft this new law that will limit the number of political parties.

But since all political parties have already been declared illegal by this week’s decree, they will not be able to participate in drafting new laws themselves, as they officially no longer exist and their activities are now illegal. The legal dissolution of political parties prohibits them from holding even the smallest meeting or making the smallest statement. A simple telephone exchange between two party leaders can be considered an illegal activity punishable by law. Even if they want to file an appeal with the Constitutional Court against the government decree that now legally bans political parties, this act is also considered illegal since the party no longer exists.

With a decree banning current parties and paving the way for a law that will only allow a few parties, and with the parties prohibited from even discussing the new law on which parties will be allowed in the future, Mali has transformed into something more than a dictatorship, into a Kafkaland!

An epithet that could also fit the current situation in Albania. The opposition, based on reports from international observers, once again denounces an election masquerade. It has been over a decade that Albania has had an opposition only for facade. The State-Party emerges from each election with an even more absolute majority, which gives it even more absolute power. Is Mali also being conceived in Albania, and giving birth to a mono-party there?

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