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Report: PM Rama used COVID-19 outbreak to assume greater personal political power

Politiko 5 Maj 2020, 12:29
Report: PM Rama used COVID-19 outbreak to assume greater personal political

Prime Minister Edi Rama used the opportunity offered by the COVID-19 outbreak to assume greater personal political power, a report by Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) has found. The report is titled “Democracy and the State of Emergency – Responses to the Corona Crisis in the Western Balkans, Croatia, and Slovenia” and was issued by the end of April. The report’s goal is to monitor the effects of the COVID-19 crisis management on institutions, political and civil rights, parties, civil society, as well as external factors.

“The crisis has provided PM Rama with the opportunity to personally assume a greater political and institutional role. The PM has been the communicator-in-chief, personally announcing every decision taken, starting from details on the lockdown hours, to the justification of every decision including urging people to “not go out, to take care of their family, and to remember to wash their hands”. On several occasions, he has appeared on TV replying to and giving explanations to citizens who have sent messages on Facebook. Through his daily appearances on TV and social media, the PM communicated the measures or decisions even before they were formally enacted. The underlying communication narrative of the prime minister has been that Albania is at “war” with an “invisible enemy” that can be beaten only through “sacrifices” we make in peace.

Through his narrative, the Prime Minister also showed that he preferred heavy-handed measures. When asked by Italian media about the problem of the increased powers that Viktor Orban has invested in himself, taking advantage of the crisis, Rama was dismissive of the question, claiming that no war is won by being defensive. The opportunity to show personality politics has also been seized by mayors who appear daily on the media handing food packages to people, although this is hardly what people expect mayors to do,” the report’s section on Albania read among other things.

The report on the Western Balkans has found that Albanian and Serbian executive leaders, in particular, are seizing a great deal of authority with scant resistance. The curtailing of civil and political rights at this level is unprecedented in peacetime, according to the report, and the accumulation of power by the executive has weakened the role of the parliament in these countries. FES will publish e second report on democracy and the state of emergency in the Western Balkans in May.  

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