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Berisha than Belos or Rama than Lalit?

Politiko 2023-04-10 17:23:05
Berisha than Belos or Rama than Lalit?

Alfred Lela

Belind Kelliçi is finally seen by his opponent Veliaj as a serious rival. The attempt to reduce him sometimes as "our son-in-law" and sometimes as Berisha's "puppet" cannot be read differently, but as the understanding that the race for Tirana and the campaign with a youthful outlook and profound concepts of Belindi is a genuine threat to Veliaj.

In this two-horned political attack, which is being prepared for Belo, the claim that he is "Berisha's candidate" must be dismantled because it is untrue, either conceptually or factually.

To refute a thesis, you must first demolish the premises on which it is built. The first premise is Berisha, but he cannot be understood without his counterpart, Rama. When we explain these two politicians in relation to Tirana, for which Belo and Lali are in the challenge, we can freely say that the first is a leader of the national conservative type. At the same time, the second is a progressive cosmopolitan.

Berisha, in all the campaigns, even though he paid due attention to Tirana, campaigned equally throughout Albania. He has been a leader who has thought he goes to politics through the national. So deeply rooted in the culture and anthropology of one's country. For example, Berisha leaves for Albania through the Highlands of Gjakova because he knows all the warriors, the sages, and the epic of these parts are with him.

Edi Rama is the opposite. He is from Durrës, Shkodra, Bregu, a little Italian, Catholic, Orthodox, etc. The presentation of the main feature, cosmopolitanism, has made him a party leader and prime minister with an unusual persistence for Tirana. This also explains his sarcastic or contemptuous language in meetings with people everywhere in Albania. He keeps the sarcasm even in Tirana, but as something that directs him from the inside out, that is, for the 'outsider who says I am from Ali Demi.

Even in his interviews with foreign media, you can find his fixation on Tirana. These acts come through language, but the physical actions on Tirana of the Socialist Party belong exclusively to him. Erion Veliaj has a large part of the political burden that comes to him from Rama. The Tirana you see today on the canvas is mostly an administration of the continuity of Rama's three mandates. Veliaj has been a broker, mostly willing, but the concepts are Rama's.

In this sense, Edi Rama is behind Erion Veliaj and not the opposite; Sali Berisha is behind Belind Këlliç. Look at the campaign of the "Together We Win" candidate, from the graphics to the messages. You can tell it is a separate thing, almost unrecognizable from the language and campaign of Berisha and the Democratic Party.  

The attempt to present Kelliçi as a marionette of the Berisha-Meta duo, i.e., a new version of the old one, has political calculation inside but not truth. Of course, we are not saying that he is a candidate independent from Berisha, the party, or the coalition, but that he is a candidate who represents the spirit and concept of the primaries. The primaries made known that the party as a structure is essential, but the decisions belong to the members, who can go against the structure and be heard.

If you have doubts that behind Veliaj is Rama and his ideas for Tirana, you either don't follow the developments carefully, or you don't care what happens but what is whispered in the political echo chambers that everyone has in their head or the group they belong to.

So, there is neither youth nor novelty in the case of Veliaj: it is simply the Rama of the period 1998-2011 or more of the same. The only new candidate in this race is Belind Kelliçi. Criticizing or condemning him politically with the accusation that Berisha is behind him, when the one that says it is Veliaj behind whom Rama is, only prolongs the tail of the lie and the life of a political trap.

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