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Benet Beci, the candidate (according to Rama) bigger than Shkodra

Politiko 2023-05-02 18:31:50
Benet Beci, the candidate (according to Rama) bigger than Shkodra

Alfred Lela

Among Rama's candidates, two receive the most attention from pop culture (the media, artistic-influencer circles) and the socialist party organization. As a rule, the leading candidates receive the most significant support from the political force they represent, but not in a few cases, the candidates whose races are close to losing or the message candidates. So those with whom the party seeks to deliver a message.

Erion Veliaj has been and is being talked about a lot. In that case, the socialist candidate for Shkodra, Benet Beci, is receiving increased attention from the Rama government and its media outlets. This is because Beci is the message candidate. Rama has an old chip on his shoulder with Shkodra and the long-term rejection of the capital of the North, both to him and his candidates.

If you visualize the trajectory of Rama's behavior with Shkodra, you will notice that he has tried both the message, the candidates, and electoral-political tricks. To caress Shkodra's attitude, he has often painted himself as a quarter-Shkodran and half-Catholic. Not to forget other efforts, including the candidacy of Keti Bazhdari (a woman), Valdrin Pjetrit (a young man), or Majlinda Angoni (a woman again) in the partial elections of last year. More than at the showcase, Rama has intended to work behind the scenes. Throughout the years, he has worked with behind-the-scenes characters, even offering a significant part to the big political stage, local or national. He has gone "beyond left and right," his slogan of 2009, whether ideologically or in other content,

To come to Benet Beci. A Shkodran "from Tirana" is being presented more often by Rama as a candidate that Shkodra does not deserve. Rama's language about Shkodra oscillates between temptation and threat. At the top of this language sits Benet Beci, a tale character who listens to and believes what the storyteller Rama says about him.

Because both Beci and Rama have lost sight of what is most important in Shkodra and the people of Shkodra: it is not the candidate himself, but what and whom they represent. As always, the left candidates in Shkodër, since 1944, have expressed aggression more than an offer. Keti Bazhdari was the aggression of a young woman in a city with old layers; Valdrin Pjetri, the aggression of a candidate without a rival, reminiscent of the voting in the time of Xhemal Dymyle; Majlinda Angoni, the party aggression that opposes the autonomy of the normal state.

Benet Beci is his aggression, and those who think they know more do better and offer what no one can but them. This elitist aperture in Shkodër, a city that gave birth to the culture that mocks everything, makes Rama and Beci a political anecdote more than the missionaries they know themselves to be.

Shkodra has never been repaired from the outside, but only from the inside. It is more of its creation, an urbanity based on the long rifle of the hill tribes. Penetrating this anthropology with a candidate who brings the head of the party to the square by the hand is allowed but not forgiven.

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