Perverse judicialism as a sword against Berisha and the opposition

Alfred Lela

Edi Rama has found a fable to help him retain power, but it does not work for the Albanians. Faced with the impossibility of governing, this time not because of the opposition which he managed to marginalize - thanks to a series of circumstances whose place is not here to be discussed -, the Prime Minister, always looking for fairy tales and circuses to confused the people and not fruitful governing formulas, has recovered justicialism as a governing theory. So, a government that administers justice.

From conception, this concept is malignant and illegal because it stands against the anti-constitutional and anti-democratic platform of separation of powers, which defines that the executive, i.e., the government, cannot interfere with the legislature (parliament), the justice system, or the media as the fourth power. Edi Rama, as we know, considers all issues of democratic systems to be on the semantic level, or in his words 'Chinesery.'

The proceedings of Sali Berisha, his son-in-law, Jamarbër Malltezi, and a builder in Tirana should also be seen as part of this judicialism. If you see the media near Rama, they blow the pump of 'the end of impunity' by recreating the story that the evils of Albania are connected with Sali Berisha, the government, and his family. This is not a new thing in Albanian political developments. In 1944, the communists led by Enver Hoxha used the same language and mechanism. Even then, there was talk of justice and how the country should be shown to the 'exploiting classes.'

As if to make the return of the leftist payment even more absurd, Jamarbër Malltezi is the heir of one of the expropriated families after 44. Even the current proceeding is related to those properties taken from him by the communist government. Now, a reborn communist government seems to be seeking a second payback. At the same time, he sells this as the people's payback for the injustices endured under the 'kulaks' like Jamarbër Malltzi and his facilitators like Sali Berisha.

We are in the conditions of a perfect paradox. Five Tirana families who have received their legal property on the city's outskirts are in front of the firing squad from the same social group that has given away private or public property in Tirana and Albania according to personal or clan pleasure.

Look at the center of Tirana, that much-coveted real estate area, flooded by a verticality of towers that makes the city skyline resemble a delirium more than a cityline. Remember the battle and the violent end of the National Theater and its defenders. It was a public asset under the scheme 'high-rise tower for government-private profit and theater for the people and propaganda.' See the port of Durrës, whose land was free to an Arab builder to build what Rama and his ilk have the only thing they know how to do: palaces and entertainment facilities.

The odyssey of Albanian owners is not unknown. Their properties were forcibly seized by the big builders connected to the government, or they took their files to Strasbourg, where they were compensated hundreds of millions of euros.

Malltezi and the other owners of the lands where the Partizani complex was located started their efforts in 1992. If they had not solved it in the mid-2000s, they would have indeed turned to Strasbourg, and yes, so sure, the check the European court would have ordered the government to pay the owners would have been more profitable for them than the tower complex. In this case, the fee would be paid by Albanian taxpayers, not the government. According to the principles of the market, the ownership solution has been the right way.

For those who are concerned about public property, which once was the Partizani complex as part of the army's nomenclature, do not hesitate to take your mind and eyes to the port of Limion in Saranda, where an oligarch has been given, without the same conscience killing that is practiced for Partizanin, a property of the army.

If someone thinks that the position on the outskirts of Tirana is more strategic than a port in the bay of Saranda, then...

The invention or recovery of judicialism, which demands retribution for injustices done to the people and public property, is a fairy tale that transforms justice into a measure for the government and an empty spoon for the people.

It also proves, as it has done over the centuries, in this country and all countries, that governments that fail to keep populations on their feet with the crutches of the illusion that evil ends by hitting a social or political group.

This is the justicialism of Edi Rama and, like that of Enver Hoxha, when the vernice fades and the tin comes out, it will be seen for what it is: a mask to cover the governmental misery of the character who creates it.