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Poor direction!

Politiko 2025-07-07 11:16:01

Poor direction!

By  Ilir Kalemaj

The summer has not only been dry but also violent for the blue camp. In a worried turn, clearly imitated by his Greek and Italian counterparts, the prime minister is trying to continue the campaign with the possible measures for the abuses of territorial violations that the government itself has turned a blind eye to, especially during the campaign, in order to increase its electoral bag. As if the massive forgiveness of fines like in the fatherland, the legalization of tens of thousands of hectares of cannabis to now supply the market (including the international one) legally, the double bonuses for pensioners forgotten during the previous three mandates, or the legalization of unauthorized construction in the countryside were not enough. Not to mention the use of gangs that channeled votes to anonymous candidates with precise accuracy.

But of course, after the victory, in addition to distributing morsels to government clients such as government villas in Shkodër and Vlora, or multifunctional buildings in the middle of Tirana, or hundreds of thousands of square meters donated in the middle of Durrës for strategic investors, as many opposition figures as possible must be recruited, to give the false message of inclusiveness. After all, they have to work hard to eat little. A redistribution model invented only by the Albanian left of the 21st century.

Meanwhile, old socialists and new renaissance people coexist with difficulty. The disappointments of idealistic contributors clash strongly with the "caviar left" that has milked all the benefits of power. The pot is boiling, but it is not boiling. Meanwhile, Albania is being emptied of young people at a frightening speed, where the latest data, as reported by Monitor, shows that from 1 million 265 thousand young people in 2011, today there are only 764 thousand in the country, a frightening contraction of 44 percent. Albanians surpassed the EU at least in one standard, that of food prices, and therefore, unlike the average European who spends only 13 percent on them, an Albanian contributes 40 percent of their income just to fill their stomachs with bread. Not bad for a country that has openly declared its goal and even ran the entire last campaign of the ruling party with the motto: Albania in the EU in 2030!

Meanwhile, the government is thinking about how to continue the show to entertain the masses in these days of a drought of optimistic news. The landing of the prime minister, who is also the mayor of Tirana, Vlora and all of Albania, with screams, curses and thunder, shows not only a temporary balance that is hot, but also a diversion of attention from the pressing problems facing a country that is losing not only its young people but also its farmers, herders and workers in general at an unprecedented speed. This attention must be attracted at all costs by denouncing electoral crime, the failure of institutions, the dysfunction of democracy, structural and political corruption, and the reforms urgently requested by the international factor, such as the electoral and territorial-administrative ones.

Attention must also be diverted from mass disappointments, from social depression, from the increase in socio-economic polarity, from the cultural deficit that functional illiteracy has produced, from the demographic decline and from the unaffordable high cost of living. But also from scandals such as open incineration (meaning burning of garbage intentionally or not) a Renaissance model as is happening in Vlora and Elbasan where the lives and health of citizens are being seriously endangered. But it must also be diverted so that citizens do not understand who is to blame for the failure of the tens of millions of euros of wastewater treatment plants from Tirana, in Vlora and Shëngjin whose main reasons are the all-Albanian alloy of greed with incompetence, producing a special kind of kleptocracy. Who does it mean that we also have the European record for the dirtiest waters in Europe while we pay tens of millions of euros more for international advertising to call ourselves the trendiest tourist destination of the moment. Eat Shan, eat Baghdad!

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