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Chris LaCivita in Tirana: One non grata fell and another rose

Politiko 2025-02-10 19:15:53
Chris LaCivita in Tirana: One non grata fell and another rose

Alfred Lela

Christopher LaCivita wrote a Hemingway-ian short story in Tirana today. He was synthetic and programmatic as if he were a character of the American writer. A burly presence, as the author of “The Old Man and the Sea” would probably describe him, Mr. LaCivita, revealed the unerring American instinct of thinking and formulating. First of all, giving a golden lesson in public communication: rhetoric is only appropriate when presented briefly and clearly. In just half an A4 page, he said what he wanted and needed and knew how to say what was most important and the messages he wanted to give, which were two.

First, "we are here today because we want to elect a prime minister [read: Berisha] who is a true friend of the US, who will work successfully with President Trump and the US."

Second: "The current Prime Minister [read: Rama] is nothing more than a puppet of George Soros; you cannot be both a puppet of Soros and a friend of the US."

Both of these points, if squeezed to extract political meaning from them, say: Edi Rama becomes non-grata by the US, and Sali Berisha is no longer a persona non-grata.

For the Democratic Party, this is the most significant development since the crushing defeat in the 2013 elections. Having come to this point through unimaginable costs but also through resistance on the verge of heroics, this change of fortune is mainly associated with the name and character of Sali Berisha [audentes Fortuna iuvat]. The extension of the smile in Doctor Berisha's portrait today, as wide as the Western lowlands, held within it the retribution that stems from justice and courage.

Berisha came this far, as the Bible says, through a worthy deed. The survival of the Democratic Party and its redemption, the contours of which were visible today, both in the appearance of LaCivita and the arrest of Veliaj, rest on the shoulders of thousands of Democrats and dozens of collaborators, but mainly, as Hemingway might have written, in the Doctor Berisha's insistence on moving forward like a raging bull.

 

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