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What has caught the eye of the embassies who see only burnt carts

Politiko 2024-10-01 16:37:47

What has caught the eye of the embassies who see only burnt carts

Today was a day when the US and EU embassies would have done better to remain silent than to react for the sake of reacting. Their concern for some burnt chairs in the Assembly, in relation to blowing up all the investment for the so-called new justice, makes these representatives look like the proverbial character that is created while Istanbul burns.

They continue to talk about constructive dialogue in a democracy, which is not known why they call it functional, about peaceful discussions and other empty clichés, while Albania today is a regime under the dictation of a single man and the only country in Europe with it clearly political prisoners. 

If the headquarters of the USA and the EU do not panic when SPAK persecutes journalists, when the prime minister uses the police, the prosecutor, the special and constitutional courts as blind tools to rob the opposition of the legitimate mandate in Himara, when the "independent" justice sentences to prison after 6 years ago, an opposition deputy, who returned to Italy a person convicted of international drug trafficking, who is also the brother of the chief justice reform commissioner, then what is so shocking about 12 chairs that are burning to worry the two Western superpowers?

The concern in this case has to do with the fact that the diplomats accredited in Tirana want to see those chairs as the cause of a potential violence in the future and not as a consequence of the systematic violence that is being done to the opposition right in front of their eyes. Since the western taxpayers have paid for the Albanian justice reform, since this reform has been sold to them as a success and since the new justice and the corrupt narco-state do not coexist, the diplomatic missions in Tirana have not even felt the extension of the hands of power over SPAK , the special courts and even the Constitutional one happened in open daylight.

The embassies did not speak when Edi Rama treated the Constitutional Court as a towel for Olta Xhaçka's deckchairs. Not even when SPAK freed the ex-Minister of Health from the accusations, who continued without breaking the law with the renaissance craft of embezzlement even when it came to EU funds. Likewise, when the EU itself discovered the world of abuses with grants for agriculture, none of the westerners of Tirana were worried. And they don't even speak when the prime minister openly calls on justice to pursue and punish his political opponents. If this is called new justice and functional democracy, then the 12 cartels are a serious problem for the Euro-Atlantic future of the country. How can the heads of the most powerful Western agencies not react?

The only problem is that when the political opposition is jailed like in Turkey and only the smoke of the protests that comes as a result fills their eyes, the concerns and reactions are not a message for Albanians but an excuse for tolerating a regime that has degraded to the point of persecuting openly of opponents. The reasons that the former international arbitrator has given up his impartiality, especially in the last decade, are many, but in some serious cases of abuse of power, it would be better not to remind the Albanian citizens of his failure. What effect can reactions of the type that we are worried about damaging the door of the City Hall have on the latter, while inside the doors the theft of the century has taken place by the leaders of the City Hall.

The vice president of the opposition parliamentary group is jailed for free speech, in a process completely set up by the government, with witnesses produced by the police, just because he sent the brother of the former minister of the interior to jail. The concern of the sponsors of justice reform should have been of the highest degree, not only from the imprisonment of a political opponent, but also from the message that such an act conveys to thugs on one side and justice workers on the other. The message of who is in power is untouchable and that political punishments are not taboo. Encouragement of crime and political control of justice. However, the US and EU embassies saw fit to worry about the 12 carts.

The question is not how the flame on the chair will be extinguished, but why and who lit it. The embassies certainly know, despite the fact that they are only concerned with the consequences and not the cause. No academic study is needed to understand this. It is enough to read the serious press of their countries, which, after scanning a criminalized state, also explains the turning a blind eye from the West. Money and pieces of Albania for corruption and lobbying in favor of a regime that today also has its political prisoners. But those 12 carts are so heavy that the two western powers could not hold the weight and finally reacted. /Armand Shkullaku-Lapsi.al

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