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The power of corruption and propaganda is collapsing and above it the real Albania is rising.

Politiko 2026-06-14 18:24:15

The power of corruption and propaganda is collapsing and above it the real

Luciano Boci

This is not just a pompous political statement.
It is the most accurate description of this historical moment that is happening before our eyes.
Because there comes a time when propaganda is no longer enough, when the screens refuse to embellish the truth.
There is a moment when the joke of power no longer causes laughter, but disgust.
Just as there is a moment when the citizen understands that behind the grand decor there is no longer a state, but robbery, no reforms, there are arrests, no development, there is division of the spoils.
And this moment has come.
For years, Albanians were sold a television Albania. An Albania of facades, studios, commissioned chronicles, directorial inaugurations, cut-scenes several times and recycled promises with impressive names.
Rama and his followers wanted to convince Albanians that poverty is a perception.
They were told that depopulation is a normal movement.
They were shouted at in their eyes that corruption was reform.
They wanted to convince them that the capture of institutions was modernization.
They sold them silence as stability.
They imposed fear on them as calm.
But the real Albania does not live in the studios of power or the banal Eden of Rama's office.
It lives in simple houses where parents count pennies to make ends meet.
It lives in abandoned villages.
In schools with empty classrooms. In hospitals where citizens pay for mistreatment, airports where young people flee, and cities where only the anxious longing of those who have left remains.
This is the real Albania.
And today it has risen.
It has risen against a government that has turned the state into private property with barbed wire. Against a government that uses the law as a tool, the institution as a vote-grabber, the administration as a party army, and public money as the treasury of the court.
This government is not falling suddenly.
It has rotted slowly, from within. It rotted because the citizen was replaced by the client, merit was replaced by connection, the tender and public property were taken over by the same names, the same hands, the same shadows.
The power of propaganda is collapsing because lies have a limit. You can deceive for a while. You can buy rumors, scare the media, produce polls, invent enemies, fabricate successes.
But you can't fill the citizen's refrigerator with television productions, nor can you bring their children back from emigration with jokes.
Albanians have already understood that the problem is not a governance error.
The problem is the model.
A model that feeds on corruption, is protected by propaganda and is maintained by arrogance.
Therefore, protest is not just opposition. It is a moral resurgence.
It is the return of the citizen to the stage. It is the rejection of an Albania where the minority enriches itself shamefully, while the majority is forced to survive or leave.
That is why today the real Albania no longer seeks spectacle. It seeks accountability, justice, a state. Not a government that mocks the citizen, but a government that serves him.
And the end of every corrupt government begins when people are no longer afraid to speak the truth out loud.
The fall of this government is not just a matter of dates, schemes or political calculations.
It is a matter of lost trust.
No matter how hard Rama tries, his government has lost trust.
He can still keep the offices, the guards, the cameras, the patrons, the noise and the decor, but he can no longer hold the country.
Because the country belongs to the people.
The power of corruption and propaganda is collapsing. Not just because the opposition says so, or because his opponents want it.
But because today this is what every citizen who has seen a lot, has endured a lot and has now decided to no longer remain silent is asking for.
And on the ruins of this lie, the real Albania is rising.
The just Albania, of dignity, of citizens, not of clients.
And when the real Albania rises, no propaganda power can keep the regime afloat.
The Albania that is not bought, not feared, and not used.
The protests are proving this!

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