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Rama in the monologue of the victim, the hero and the incriminated

Politiko 2025-01-13 19:36:47

Rama in the monologue of the victim, the hero and the incriminated

Alfred Lela

Edi Rama, in his long monologue on a Sunday, when even God gives people a break, has not stopped for over half an hour talking about imaginary political persecution by his opponent. The latter has a permanent name, burned for 15 years in the slogan that smokes, but his gunpowder is wet and, neither kills nor convinces, "Saliu is to blame."

A prime minister in power since 1998, a full 27 years, who complains about a rival voted out of power 12 years ago, and who has been in power for 10 years less than him, is a case of hallucination that deserves special studies in political science, but also in psychology.

Doing exactly what he accuses his opponent of doing, using his biological family, Rama invoked outdated events yesterday, in an unsolicited and strange appeal to a public that has largely forgotten the atrocities in question.

The transformation of oneself into a victimized hero can perhaps be better understood by recalling a psychological definition called the dark triad , which, according to Britannica, is characterized as a combination of three negative character traits: Machiavellianism, subclinical narcissism, and psychopathy—with certain traits such as coldness, aggression, and duplicity.

So, Rama, in the long monologue of the hero-victim, appeared as Machiavelli's cold and calculating leader, the narcissist who sees himself as beautiful in the pool of popular preconceptions about him, and the duplicitous one who expresses double, contradictory opinions.

The latter is the case when he responds to accusations of collaborating with crime by clarifying that he is the one who chooses his collaborators, not the other way around. By saying that he has the power to choose, because he is number 1, he contradicts himself in the other claim, that of 'disconnection', from political collaborators. Not that he does not have the power of choice in this case as well, but that he admits that he has made so many bad choices, but the choices have nothing to do with him.

Rama is lying when he says that his associates elected to the Assembly, government or municipalities of the country have been removed from politics by decriminalization, which he also supported. Not at all, because Rama has protected all associates with problems with decriminalization until the end, and has released them when he realized that it was impossible to keep them. He has done this with Dako, Roshi, Kajmaku and all the others.

A partially opposite behavior has been demonstrated in the current mandate, when he has released without much delay some of his collaborators, but only after dismissing them from office and wanting them as 'scapegoats', but also as a pact with SPAK, according to the principle of providing some 'witnesses', but showing the uncrossable red line.

The way Rama chooses to justify the relationship with crime is particularly interesting. By saying that he has the power to choose collaborators (and therefore also in the case of the pact with crime) he incriminates himself. Not because of the arrogance that the sentence demonstrates, but because of the fact that in the files of foreign services, there is indirect and direct evidence of this collaboration. The case of the deputy Çyrbja of Durrës, where Rama is the leader, is flagrant. The uncovered conversations between the narcos of Durrës that determine Çyrbja as the third on the list, are in themselves a game for territory and power of the city's gangs for the domination of the port, drug trafficking and economic networks of the area. One of the ways in which this power is manifested is the connection with the Prime Minister, and the most illustrative example of this is the influence he has on the candidates on the SP list in Durrës. Çyrbja, who started fifth or sixth on the list, would have been an MP again, but the gang that supported him, by moving him up to third place, demonstrated to his rivals the influence on the Prime Minister. If this is not stated directly, is it suspected that the names and positions on the list are determined by the approval and exclusive signature of Edi Rama?! The one who has the power to 'choose collaborators' and not "be chosen by them".