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The new justice, an Albanian "1984".

The new justice, an Albanian "1984".

Alfred Lela

The prediction that the parliamentary republic of Albania could turn into an executive-judicialist cyborg is sad in itself.

This happens mostly to countries that have lived in transition for a long time and, when they were not able to get out of it in time, i.e. without being able to pass from a hybrid regime to democracy, they fell into an intermediate form, which has democratic clothing and totalitarian insides.

This intermediate form, in the case of Albania, comes with a strong prime minister parallel to an extra-competent justice system. Along the way, one side dominates the other and, on occasion, they switch places, but what remains is the need of each power to exist in itself, which legitimizes the other.

The signs of this are the behavior of the so-called justice system with the opposition. In two almost parallel cases, the investigation of the opposition leader and the political and legal symbols of the Democratic Party have remained in the teeth of this cyborg of persecution.

The system, caught in its own absurdity, does not understand the absurd. These are the political and social conditions that Orwell describes so well in "Animal Farm" and "1984". Part of this absurdity is, for example, the fact that judge Blerina Muçi makes a decision to the detriment of DP and, months later, the vetting disqualifies the judge, citing this very violation. The rest of the system does not react to correct the error of the part that did it. More or less, as if an individual has been convicted of murder, and after serving two years, in a retrial, is found not guilty, but continues to be held in a cell.

The same thing in the case of Berisha, when SPAK creates a precedent with one deputy (Tahiri) which he himself contradicts with another (Berisha).

Or when they make a stupid interpretation of the Constitution, calling only the arrest, but not the ban on free movement and political activity, 'deprivation of freedom'. It's like going back in history to the long struggle for black civil rights in America, and concluding that segregation in schools is not a lack of freedom, it's just categorization.

The category where our prosecutors and judges fall, with their proven predisposition towards the opposition, is RIDICULOUS.

Opposition is a quantitative and qualitative category, as such it requires a quantitative and qualitative assessment from the courts. Public behavior (through decisions and acts) makes the 'new' judges appear culturally castrated and politically ordered.

The alignment of their decisions with the agendas of power is too much to be a coincidence. In the 'captured justice' that was before them, it was the opposite: the courts 'preferred' the opposition agenda. 

Having said that, can it be reasoned like this: the justice system has traditionally been left-wing, but now it has been emboldened by a governmental and transnational conspiracy against the right-wing opposition and has decided to annihilate it?!

This may seem as normal as Big Brother to many, but it is not. It constitutes a systematic attack against political, individual and social freedoms and rights.

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