There is an “impressive” attempt to present the crisis of the opposition’s leadership as a political crisis in Albania, the crisis with the DP’s tent set up in the boulevard, as a government crisis, the crisis of the support that the citizens offer to this movement with the aim of seizing power on the table, as a crisis of the system, the identity crisis of a political leader as a crisis of society, the crisis of a few analysts and media owners, as a crisis of democracy.
Why is there no crisis?
For a country to be in a political crisis, its governing majority must have lost its legitimacy. This may happen in case the government and the Prime Minister, due to the reforms, way of governance or mega scandals, causes a general revolt and lack of support. As a result, people take to the streets, disrupting day to day normality of the social and economic life of the country. This much pressure exerted openly leads the political class to try and find a solution to come out of this situation and to bring back normality.
The legitimacy of a majority is questioned by the citizens that have voted in favor of it in a free and democratic way or through acts and political steps taken in Parliament.
Thus, there are two ways to provoke a crisis:
The first one, by the people.
The second one, by legislative institutions, where people have delegated their power into the hands of their representatives. But what has happened in Tirana in the past 6-7 weeks? A crisis is being attempted to be triggered, but not from below, not from the people. A crisis is being attempted to be triggered from above, from a small political elite.
Judging by the government’s performance during this four year mandate, we can see that the first positive results of the deep reforms that have been taken, have started to be felt by the people. Their effects have started to be felt in consumption, household income, economy, investments and image of Albania. Therefore, all opinion polls and professional calculations show that today’s opposition is a loser in the June 18 elections.
Having no alternative project or concrete platform which would challenge this political reality in front of electors, a political “putch” is being attempted, through a scenario that seems as if it aiming to force the government to leave. And all of this, among others, is being done to prevent the consequences that the implementation of the judicial reform could have on an old political elite during the next government term in office.
On the other hand, attempts are being made for this artificial political crisis to be injected or be sold as real in front of the public opinion, from outside the legitimate and constitutional institutions of the country.
But not from Parliament, the true battle arena where political causes are generally fought, especially by the opposition. But attempts are being made to impose this crisis from the street. In the boulevard. There, where one or two political leaders are using the tent as a pretext, as a place for their “mission”. There, where besides TV cameras, they also gather a number of people who serve as a fake background of professional applauders.
This explains everything:
-The first one, why there is no real political crisis in Albania.
-The second one, why is this being sold as a crisis. It is merely an artificial thing.
The real political crises which are generated from outside the institutions, are triggered from below and in no case from above. Thus, by the voters and not those who are voted. By the people and not by the elite’s elite.
The problems of the people oblige a political elite to react and do everything to find a solution for the people, country and themselves through a legitimate and a democratic way. But as it may be seen, the problems of the leadership which do not stem from the real problems of the people, are making them more and more indifferent. This is what is truly happening these days in Tirana. There, on the street. In the boulevard. In the tent. In the office improvised by Basha and Berisha, between the government’s building and Parliament’s building.
But the people continue to be indifferent and carry on their day to day business.
Even those who sometimes happen to pass at the tent are indifferent. This is a clear sign that the personal problems of a part of the political elite’s elite in Tirana, are not the real problems of the Albanian citizens. And as a result, the crisis, even if there is one, is not the crisis of the citizens, the system, the government, majority and even less a crisis of Albania. But this is their crisis, which has only one way out: Through the vote of the citizens on June 18.
