OVERDOSE

A few days ago, news broke: The Prime Minister was hospitalized due to an overdose. Not for the first time.

The news was quickly shut down, while the guard who leaked it was fired.

Beyond that, no reaction or surprise about the overdose.

Society, the media, the public, whatever you want, consider overdose normal. This is because "overdose" is all that defines what happens in Albania.

Ultimately, every person who runs a country, a business, or a family gives that entity their own look.

Overdose is our view today.

In Albania, everything has gone into overdose.

Not just Rama. But also the government, the elections, the media, propaganda, deception, evil, corruption in overdose. But also patriotism itself has gone into overdose.

Albania is no longer a living country. It is a society that survives in complete agony under the effects of these powerful overdoses.

The overdose of power has exceeded any dose of legitimacy. The government no longer seeks votes, but appears as the master, as the owner of the state, of institutions, of the media, and even of political destinies.

Here, it's not just the elections that are being stolen. Feelings are being stolen. Reactions are being stolen. Truth is being stolen.

And Albania today is not just a tired country.

It is a poisoned, drunk organism, in a state of constant overdose.

Not from a physical substance, but from a fatal mixture of organized deception, violated hope, and tolerated crime.

Electoral Overdose

Only the name remains from the elections in Albania.

Every four years, the government organizes a cynical spectacle, where the result is known before the vote is cast.

What happened in these elections is not just manipulation – it is a vote overdose. A massive injection of inflated ballots, fabricated figures, and a contaminated process that would have made even the most shameless regimes envious.

Edi Rama and his apparatus have turned elections into drugs, and power into addiction.

The vote is no longer an act of popular sovereignty, but an instrument that comes manipulated in the laboratories of the municipality, patronage groups, criminal groups, and administration leaders who carry out orders with the logic of a political sect.

Like a drug addict, the regime always needs stronger doses to feel the effect: more police, more ballots, more shopping, more fear, more propaganda.

Elections are no longer tools of legitimacy – they are the same intravenous injections that keep a decaying body of power afloat.

The 2025 electoral overdose was nothing more than a repetition of the old recipe: a handful of political thugs, a bunch of local thieves, a few captured prosecutors, and a CEC turned into a regime cartel, distributing the "doses" necessary to keep the patient alive - even though Albania's political body is collapsing.

Elections are no longer held in Albania - they are political-hospital spectacles, where the government injects every possible dose of control, fear, and manipulation into the body of society.

What was once an electoral process has today turned into an electoral overdose, a political rampage where the vote is used as a weapon, not as hope.

Ballots no longer carry the weight of free thought. They are bought, forged, distributed like fabricated ecstasy pills in the regime's pockets, by Bulgarian train or by filling ballot boxes.

Every institution has become a laboratory of illegal votes, distributing the "cure" of staying in power. The CEC no longer counts votes, but justifications. The prosecution no longer investigates electoral crimes, but remains silent. Embassies no longer celebrate victory, but avoid shame.

We have entered the final phase of this government: "chronic addiction to rigged elections."

There is no longer legitimacy, there is only the next effect – an effect that always requires a stronger, more violent, more brazen dose.

In this "sick ward of democracy", Edi Rama is like the doctor and the crazy patient who describes the very disease, the very treatment, and the very benefit.

Meanwhile, the country experiences frightening hallucinations: predicted outcomes, guaranteed "victories," and a distorted reality.

Electoral overdose does not produce stability. It produces apathy, departure, emigration, and a breakdown of trust.

Because when elections no longer heal, citizens seek salvation elsewhere – outside the country, outside the system, outside hope.

Moral overdose

The most dangerous overdose is the emotional and moral one. When elections are stolen, but the citizen remains silent. When the opposition denounces with facts, but no one is shocked. When embassies speak half-heartedly and the citizen has learned to read the diplomatic insult in silence. This is a despair that no longer screams – it simply chews in silence.

Our society is in a state of moral paralysis. It is not dead, but it is no longer responsive either. And this is the most dangerous form of rule: the one that does not require violence, because it has managed to numb the nerve of civic reaction.

To recover from the overdose, we as a society and citizens must feel the pain.

To understand that poverty is not fate, but the consequence of a deliberate policy. To understand that silence is not wisdom, but permission for abuse. To understand that a stolen vote is not a technical error, but a political crime.

Only then will we emerge from the state of OVERDOSE.