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Yuri Kim 'returns' the American flag at the March 2 rally

Politiko 2022-09-23 20:56:41
Yuri Kim 'returns' the American flag at the March 2 rally

Marcel Lela


American Ambassador Yuri Kim met today the leader of the Freedom Party, former President Ilir Meta. Several things stood out in this show: the first was the curiosity that, to why, in the announcement on Facebook, Ilir Meta's name was not even mentioned. 

Second, the comments below the embassy's post, are numerous and disproving, with rare exceptions. The latter doesn't mean much: the world of social networks is primarily one of contestation, not approval. 

Politically, the meeting of Mrs. Kim with Mr. Meta is a clear signal of change, at least tactical, in the tense relations of the Ambassador with the opposition bloc in Albania. This is especially noticeable when she presents the fact that the ambassador avoided Ilir Meta as President, and meets him as party leader. So strong was the contestation for the President at that time, that he also reacted to the American flags that were waved in Ilir Meta's 'March 2 crowd'.

What matters most, for Ilir Meta and his party, is the fact that there will be no non-grata at their address.

If nothing else, even before Kim's visit, this was seen in the barrage of attacks that the government organized against Meta, from the espionage file to the inglorious trinomial Idajet Beqiri-Halit Valteri-Adriatik Doçi. A sign that Rama and the government were furious with the American decision to 'pardon' Meta. 

The Ambassador's visit, which is in the last months of the mandate, can project changes in American behavior even in relation to the "big opposition" led by Sali Berisha. 

There are two alternatives: The new ambassador slowly normalizes relations with the Democratic Party, carefully toning down Kim's ala cat woman protagonism. Unfortunate, and unproductive variant. it would be the continuation in the tactical hole so far.

If, like Kim, the Embassy and the State Department continue the course of in vitro fertilization of a parallel opposition, relying on the electoral minority of Basha (albeit with a blocking parliamentary group) and the Freedom Party, the political theater will be frustrated. Such a union does nothing else, except that it ensures another mandate of Edi Rama and installs, eventually, a state of homo corruptus in Albania. In addition, the Embassy will always be more and more prejudiced. The American identity of Sali Berisha as the single most targeted person in the table of corruption in Albania will become more and more unbalanced, more and more unbelievable.  

Clearly, the 'appointment' of opposition is a classic case of exchanging stability for democracy. But false stabilities are nothing more than the name suggests an illusion, waiting for its time to show itself in all its ugliness.

 

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