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Berisha (not the Doctor) who disturbed the government

Politiko 2023-11-03 11:36:26
Berisha (not the Doctor) who disturbed the government

Marcel Lela

Sali Berisha has been told many times, publicly and most likely privately, that in choosing the heir, he was mistaken. Of course, we are talking about the political heir, Lulzim Basha, the chairman of the DP for nine years. Preç Zogaj, one of Berisha's veteran critics, often announced that Basha is Sali Berisha's 'last success in politics.' Zogaj's thesis, like many others, turned against him: Basha became Sali Berisha's last failure in politics.

On Monday a week ago, another heir appeared on Top Story—this time, not political, but of blood: Argita Berisha - Malltezi. In front of the moderator and journalists Robert Rakipllari and Anila Hoxha, Malltezi revealed what she knew, and others were hiding about the file that led to the detention of her husband and the prosecution of her father.

The well-meaning, but also critics or enemies, discovered another Berisha in the media-political scene; one could say a Berisha without Berishism. Her calmness seemed to come from her feet firmly planted in the truth. She did not hesitate or flinch from the questions, trying to cover them with the smoke of an unrelated argument, as people usually do in a close fight.

Composed of a repertoire that stems from the right of the one who knows the truth and does not need to avoid it, Mrs. Malltezi gave what can be called the 'interview of life.' She did more than his father in a week of dense political communication and delivered several lectures, both to the right and the left.

On the right, they should note the performance of Berisha Junior. The best communication is the one that has its feet in truth. Second, to communicate means to reveal oneself, not to reflect someone else, be it even the leader. Women in politics especially, who are rare and many eyes remain in politics because of the 30 percent quota more than talent, should borrow from Argita Malltez's interview. Not to imitate her as the leader's daughter but to study the repertoire of authority and public exchange.

The government must learn its lessons, as well. Especially the fact that the political opponent considered an enemy, cannot be pushed into the corner of survival because the survival of the one in its own right turns the 'surrounding' in favor. This happened with the witch trial against Berisha. Everything backfired, and this was especially evident in last night's anti-show, a week later, to control the public damage Argita Malltez's interview had caused to their "corrupt Berisha" thesis. The call of Carlo Bolino in the role of the Prosecutor, and his Albanian even more clumsy than the arguments, proved the government's alarm that the platform raised to annihilate the political opponent was overturned.

The attempt to derail the interview with an anti-show can be summed up in Arjan Curri's sentence: everyone said what they knew from the dossier, but Carlo knows more than the dossier.

Ultimately, the big lesson for everyone is that Berisha is not mistaken with his heirs. At least not with the ones he produces himself.

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