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The arming of Albanian parliamentarism and the reasons

Politiko 2024-10-17 13:34:01
The arming of Albanian parliamentarism and the reasons

Alfred Lela

Today was a day of shame for the Parliament of the Republic of Albania. Even the traditional codes of the Albanians over the centuries have been the same, both on endurance and wisdom: when the Assembly meets, the weapons are hung on the oak tree, and the word takes precedence.

In an Assembly like this one of Elisa, tangled in the knot of blind service to Rama or acting as parliament speaker, the astonishment seemed complete. With the opposition excluded or kept out by force, the hall resembled the assemblies of Latin American countries under junta in the middle of the last century. The presence of the Republican Guard was more visible than that of the legislators: stationed outside and inside the hall, the guards looked out of place in a place made for deputies and not for the security forces.

The Parliament's rules clearly state that women MPs are 'accessed' only by female bodyguards. A guard was wrapped around the body of democratic deputy Elda Hoti, and the language and position of the body clearly indicate intimidation.

What could MP Hoti do that jeopardized her colleagues' safety and the Assembly's integrity? Would he stand before the pulpit and burn the president with a look from Medusa? Would you put your hair in a bun and shoot the holy Elijah? Would he turn the heel of his shoe upside down and stick it in the overweight balls of the interior minister?!

In this sense, the hand-to-hand fight between the guards and the women deputies is the first armament of Albanian parliamentarism.

The second took place in the square in front of the Assembly, occupied by the Special Forces, in open violation of the law, which allows this perimeter to the Guard. Their presence was a legal violation and an open threat to the legislators and the opposition, arming to the teeth of a space whose only tooth should have the taste and processing of laws in the interest of the Republic. Raising a hand by one of the Specials in the confrontation with the representative of the opposition, Luan Baçi, in a perimeter that is not his and against a deputy mandated by the people, is a moment that proves a dangerous slippage.

This act of arming the parliamentary space is unprecedented and a declaration of war against the opposition. Displacing the Police in a square of public space, where it is not allowed, is not an act of negligence. It is an impetus and guarantee that comes from above. However, the psychological element of the policemen and their bosses as an impetus should not be overlooked.

Quite a few of the exponents of the Police appear in the transcribed conversations (only a part of them have been clarified and made public) as accomplices of the crime. Their desire to protect the government and enter the Assembly in violation of the law is fear that with the government's fall, the shield falls for them, and the files where they appear as servants or collaborators of narcos will be turned against them.

The system that protects them today will one day turn against them. The amateurish and thuggish action of the Police in the courtyard of the Assembly was an attempt to push it as far as possible in time that day.

But, it always comes riding on the cold shoulders of payback.

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