From one election to another!

From one election to another!
This article has been written for Albanian Free Press newspaper and www.afp.al

By Frrok Çupi

The Democratic Party has convened the party’s leading structures and the allies by issuing a rather pompous warning: “we will discuss the electoral code”. Meanwhile, the DP also said that it would talk about 25 June 2017. This was the last day of the elections, when the Democratic Party suffered its “Waterloo”.

Here, we’re dealing with a very simple question:

Why does politics only focus on the moment that relates to power or the loss of power?! This is the question.

After conceding a dramatic defeat in the elections, the first thing that the Democratic Party is dealing with is elections. Without doing anything else, the Democratic Party started its political activities with the “election code” and is putting pressure in order for parliament, government, opposition and the media to talk about the “election code”. In their eyes, there’s no code of conduct, code of civility, family code or criminal code. The entire “life code” for them has only one name: Election Code!

The gap between those who rule and those who are ruled is very big:

While those who are ruled are dealing on a daily basis with the “life code”, the rulers are dealing with the “election code”. The election code gives life to rulers (politicians or not), while it damages those who are ruled and who have no interest whatsoever in the “election code”. It’s so humiliating to talk about elections at a time when you have just come out defeated from the elections and when people now want to focus on their day to day problems. For politics and rulers, there’s nothing more important than the election day, the day when their power is decided.

Why should simple people or Orwell’s “animals” of the Farm, care about the day when the ruler takes power; in other words, election day? That day, which in a democratic system comes once in four years, will still come even if you don’t think about it. It’s like death, which is a sure thing. Meanwhile, politicians and rulers call it “birth day” and want to be born even when they fail.

The Democratic Party in opposition started “work” for the new parliamentary legislature session by asking: “When will the next elections be held?!” He went back to the issue of the June 25 elections with the scope of not accepting the defeat or to say to people that there’s no other alternative but power.

Even the Socialist Party did the same thing when it lost the elections in 2009. Immediately after it lost, it started to employ the phrase “these past elections”. It didn’t accept the result, it asked for ballot boxes to be opened and in the end, two years later on 21 January 2011, it organized a protest where four people were killed. This party didn’t care about the people or the country. The only thing it care about were the “elections”, meaning, power.

By why does this happen?

1.

Power is like the bicycle tire compressor.

The only task of the compressor is to “inflate power” to its previous size as soon as it deflates. The Democratic Party has just lost the elections and now it’s demanding another one. The compressor only brings air for rulers; the air of the ruled ones doesn’t count.

2.

Power is secret:

Look at how he hid himself in the last elections. The militants and voters of the opposition came out on protests, chanted for victory, and occupied a tent for three months… “Power belongs to you”, said the leader and they trusted him. On the last day, on 18 May, it turned out that power had been hidden between “us and the enemy”. The Socialist Party (in power) and the Democratic Party (in opposition) had divided power underground. Power hides behind slogans “for the people”, behind “war” scenes and behind promises. In fact, everything is done for the “Election Day”.

3

Power and time speak the same language

Rulers think about power all the time, although they speak another language, meaning the language of the “people’s problems”. But even when politicians keep quiet or when they don’t speak openly, they speak the language of power. A moment of crisis comes when they don’t restrain themselves and are only able to speak about power. “When are we going to seize power?!”, this is the usual question that they pose. The same thing is happening with the Democratic Party. Meanwhile, for the other party (SP) in power, it’s not that urgent to speak the language of power.

Note: The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Albanian Free Press’ editorial policy

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