How Fredi Beleri "arrested" Edi Rama

Alfred Lela

The fact that Edi Rama no longer hides his 'bad hand' in the game is as dangerous as it is funny. The midnight arrest of an opposition candidate, a few hours after the Prime Minister insulted and berated him on a TV show, was neither a coincidence nor a bloodbath. It was Rama's chance, not to be missed, to show his omnipotence and ferocious determination to his opponents. 

Either way, it's a move bordering on insanity.

Even if Fredi Beleri has done what he is accused of, this blames the opposition candidate, but still, it keeps and blames the Prime Minister as well.

Rama can fix everything "on paper," but he cannot correct the significant imbalance created in public and the media by the knowledge that he and his subordinates are manipulators on an industrial scale of the elections.

It is enough to turn your head back to BILD's interceptions and files 184 and 339. Fredi Beleri's "four manipulated votes" look like four macchiatos in a bar on the coast of Himara, compared to 4 tons of drugs starting from that same coast, maybe even by the same policemen who arrested the opposition candidate last night. Beleri's arrest, while Damjan Gjiknuri and Ulsi Manja accompany him to electoral meetings during the day and at night do the same thing they did in the files of Durrës and Dibra, makes you hold your stomach with your hand.

Knowing this, it seems that it was not Rama who arrested Beleri but the opposite.

Not hiding his hand shows Rama's desperation or impatience with all those who oppose him and come out in ambush for the plans he has in his head. What else explains that, for several days, he has been wearing the national costume of the patriot, and studio after studio throws a barrage of insults about Beleri. If you compare what Edi Rama, who keeps himself informed, has said about Beleri and what the latter has lined up in the official reaction, you understand that the epithets need to change characters. What Rama articulates about the "redneck" goes to the author, while the candidate's text looks like a regular prime minister wrote it of a normal country.

The question is: what bothers Rama?

Both the data and the electoral sense show that Himara is losing. Ion's failure in this field does not mean much politically, but it cuts his wings about what he calls "strategic investments." Without Himara, he misses the last chance to impose his concrete footprint on the entire length of the South Riviera. This architecture has so far turned out to be brutalist and has filled the winding Adriatic-Ionian line with iron and concrete. What the rest of us see and understand doesn't matter. Rama calls it all a high-class aesthetic. That it is not just an aesthetic project is understood as soon as you list those to whom his Government has given the title of strategic investor: the husband of a minister, relatives of a minister, a comedian close to the Government, etc.

After another day, the same gentleman who plays the vassal with Erdogan and the globalist with Vučić, when you see that he plays the nationalist with an opposition candidate in Himare, you know more than you should about the fact that Rama is a Pehlivan who does not there is the problem of Albania, its borders and interests. Why do you remember that he thinks that Fredi Beleri (a half-illiterate man - according to him) endangered the integrity of Albania?

In the end, if Rama is a proponent of opening fences with Vucic and redesigning Kosovo's bloody borders with the Serbian president, why does he poison himself and the public with the nightmare of "sacred borders" in the South?

There is something wrong here. His ardent opponents say that Rama has "mental disorders." I do not think so.

His mind is fine, but his interests are broken. And I'm not just talking about finances here. No, in the third term of Government, in the 25th year of uninterrupted administrative, executive or political power, Rama has begun to think in terms of grandomania. He does not see or tolerate anything outside of his political and aesthetic will. That's why he no longer hides his hand.

This is precisely why he is dangerous for Albania.