By Frrok Çupi
I recently talked to a friend of mine, a Dutch journalist, whom I have known when he followed the events that took place here in Tirana, minute after minute, in 1990 and 1991. “What’s happening there? What about the Democratic Party?”, he asked.
It’s been a while that he hasn’t come here, perhaps due to the old age–therefore, he didn’t know Basha. But I told him that the chairman of the DP has “frozen” himself. At the beginning, he didn’t understand it and then, quite puzzled, asked me:
“The chairman has frozen in this high political temperature?!”
My journalist friend also added another comment:
“Ah, yes. He may have frozen himself to avoid the war”, he said.
The war of the Democratic Party has just started. It lost the elections in an admiring state of peace, without confronting the enemy. Both the large parties crushed the small parties and attacked the third biggest party, the Socialist Movement for Integration. But the Democratic Party soon withdrew from this, because it saw that the democrat members did not agree with the idea of waging war with the third biggest party.
The war has started within the Democratic Party and it resembles a civil war:
What are the signs of a Civil War within the Democratic Party?
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The war of the “small” ones with the ones who have been active for years. The “small” ones dared to fight, because they thought that they had the chairman with them. From what I’ve noticed, they come from ranks of the previous parliament and the new one, which has not yet been convened. Those ones who could not leave any marks, wanted to “be” and the only way to do this was to fight against those who were higher than them. They have started an attack against prominent figures of the Democratic Party and even against the founders of the party. This has always happened in civil war: A part seeks to eradicate the other part in order to benefit. This is a desperate war. This is why my journalist friend told me that the chairman has avoided the war.
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War between serviles
What a tough war this one! It is unprecedented, even in the darkest days of the DP! Servility, this epidemic, seems to have divided the group, the family and individual into two parts: Half of the body this way and the other half that way; half of the head this way and the other half that way. This has happened in the Civil War during the period that was also named as the partisan, national liberation period from 1942 until 1944. At that time, one of the brothers supported the National Front, the other supported the partisans. The real war between them started after 1945. This time, I can see that within the Democratic Party, the father is in Basha’s favor, the son is against Basha and they declare themselves on the media. I see that the chairman of the DP’s youth forum is against Basha, while his deputy is in favor. The defeated one in the race was decorated as an MP of the DP, the winner was rejected. The clash of values has turned into a war against each other.
A war between the rich and the poor. Those who are in favor of the chairman are the poor, which means the honest ones. The others are the rich ones. Topalli was branded as a rich lady, Bode as very rich, Imami has been branded as the general, while the others were asked the following questions: “You still want to steal? Haven’t you had enough?”. Why have they launched this attack? It’s not that the ones who are insulting have not benefited funds, but they have attributed themselves the role of the poor or the honest. The scope is to take the wealth from the rich through the army of honest people. Then to loot, the same as it happened after the Second World War, when partisans took everything that land owners had.
War against nobility
We’re in our right to consider the intelligentsia, writers, journalists and independent intellectuals as nobility. It was outrageous to read RD today how it attacked its former editor in chief, Patozi. What came into my mind were the situations of the war that RD waged in 1996 and 1997 against Azem Hajdari, Pashko and against the editor in chief. Another writer from the ranks of the DP was attacked today. War will continue until the DP remains with the ignorant and the servants. They will eradicate the other party. This is war…
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