Fourth term: A luxury Albania cannot afford

By Hysni Gurra

Edi Rama has been in power for 28 years. Don't forget this before you go to the ballot box — 12 of which as prime minister, a position that has given him every opportunity to improve the lives of Albanians, and he has not done so, on the contrary.

Don't forget, Edi Rama is the man who has had more power than any other politician since the '90s.

But what has he done with the power he was given and robbed of, first of all, from the socialists, and then from every Albanian?

In these 12 years, he chose to drive over 1 million citizens out of the country and impoverish those who remained.

Not because he didn't have the means, but because he didn't want to use his power to change the Albanian reality.

A socialist voter, undecided, or even determined to vote again, only needs to think this:

In 12 years, he had the opportunity to increase pensions — but he didn't.

In 12 years, he was able to improve his health — but he left you without medicine.

In 12 years, he had the opportunity to invest in education — but he emptied the schools.

In 12 years, he had the opportunity to help agriculture — but he bankrupted it.

In 12 years, he had the opportunity to build infrastructure — but he turned it into a profit scheme for his clients.

In 12 years, it had the opportunity to lower the cost of living for Albanians — but it did the opposite, only increased.

In 12 years, he was able to govern honestly — but he enriched himself and his family.

None of this happened by chance. They were choices. They were consciously set priorities.

So, what makes anyone think that things will be different with Edi Rama in his fourth term?

Albanians have given Rama everything for almost three decades — especially in the last 12 years.

What did they get back?

He and the people around him became rich, while the ordinary citizen saw neither care, nor honesty, nor development.

Think coldly. Remove the labels "left", "right" or "non-partisan".

Think about this as citizens living the daily reality and ask:

Is there any logical reason to vote again for a man who has destroyed trust three times in a row?

Today, Albania faces an opposition with a program that responds to many of the main needs of Albanians.

But even if there were no program at all, a self-respecting people would not vote for a repeated failure four times.

A fourth term for this government is no longer a chance — it is a dangerous luxury that Albania can no longer afford.