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A flock of turkeys (manure tip) in cholera time…

2022-09-08 20:20:56Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA SKëNDER MINXHOZI
A flock of turkeys (manure tip) in cholera time…
Sali Berisha and Ilir Meta

If you make a round of statements, threats, retorts of leaders involved in the Ukrainian conflict, or even warnings of experts in international politics, energy, economy and finance, the world is facing a terrible winter. Russia is shutting off Europe's energy taps, the war in Ukraine has entered the abyss of nothingness where it is fought for villages and rivers whose names no one has heard, but which continue to hold the world economy hostage. "Wash your clothes at 30 degrees", which the Albanian government asked its citizens, looks like a warning sprinkled with rose water, in the face of what is happening around. Kosovo is removing the lights in the houses of Pristina, the Europeans are turning off the lights in the cities and lowering the heating levels in the houses,

In this modest corner of our peninsula it seems as if the storms only partially come and the effects feel softened and the waves come weakened. The beach, summer with heat, foreign tourists who wander confusedly through the cities and the most lost corners of the country, all give the impression of a life without war, oil crisis and prices.

The illusion of normality in which we are immersed, defies the acuteness of the crisis that awaits us, but the reality of the road is quite different. The neighborhood store has already turned into a virtual shooting wall, where outrageous prices shock you a little each time you wander between the overflowing shelves. The war is sitting cross-legged right at that shop where the same salesman-neighbor stands, who sells the same things that were quite cheap yesterday, and today are very, very expensive.

Summer has only partially and temporarily removed the dark curtain that winter will place on us. A cold season, full of rain and floods, where even the hypocritical politics refuses to hold elections, because it knows that people are more pessimistic in the winter, and more optimistic in the summer. Politics, this animal with many faces, is letting the river that emerged from the bed of crisis flow almost freely.

Thursday's parliament is the moment when all Albanians have the opportunity to understand how disconnected politics is from the concrete problems of the people. Of course there is talk of numbers about our money, naturally there are debates about water, lights and integration, but it is just as natural that the tones used, the total lack of will to think together about the great and common crisis we have door - this behavior that seems to come from another planet, where there is no war, no dry rivers, no schizophrenic prices, is exactly what depresses you the most.

It is as clear as the sun that they fight for votes, pretend to fight and then you see them hugging in photos of conferences or visits abroad. It has been clear for years that the extreme debate and fights of the plenary hall of the Assembly correspond to a cafe somewhere behind the back of the speaker of the parliament, where everyone is good friends and comrades, this 30-year-old hypocrisy is the essence of the broken code of Albanian politics. They play theater with us, they don't work for us. That much is a little but certain after 30 years that we are governed by the same faces, with the same unfulfilled promises that come out of the same vocal chords that appear to us even in our dreams.

Everyone talks about the problem, no one about the solution, everyone shows their fist, no one extends their hand, everyone promises fights and fights, no one sits down to calmly see how we will get out of a tunnel where socialists and democrats have entered together, everyone see the choices, few see the solutions.

Want an example of how everyone fights not about the moon, but about the finger pointing to the moon? Take the energy crisis. The frightening situation expected this winter finds us with the Drin basin in a semi-critical condition, with over 300 million euros of energy already imported and with a completely unclear perspective for the coming months. And yet, for over a decade, we have had a 100 megawatt TEC that we paid 100 million euros to build and another 30 to maintain, and which has not produced a single kilowatt of energy to date because it is defective. Why wasn't a decade or so enough to repair this structure that today would save us those generator ships that will burn diesel and fuel oil on the most touristic coast of Albania?!

On the other hand, we are the only country in the region and on this continent that does not have any wind or solar parks. Dozens of requests for investments in this area over the years, a river of words that go on and on but nothing concrete. Cross the border into Kosovo, Montenegro and Greece and see the windmills that produce energy. Only here, we have no idea who to invest in this direction. Just a few hours ago, the government decided to subsidize the installation costs of solar panels for households. Late, very late...

The winter ahead of us requires a deep reflection at every level of political and institutional decision-making, on every floor of this state and in all instances that represent something. The quarrel over the electoral rags is a cockfight on top of the manure. Even worse, quarrels on the basis of personal interest are even worse, a misuse of power for petty reasons of power. See Berisha and Meta and you understand the concept.

This vicious cycle we are wandering in must end. Today, more than ever, the coming crisis fueled by the war in Ukraine and the cascading consequences it is producing, forces the setting aside of pettiness. The personal clash between Rama, Meta and Berisha comes at the most inappropriate moment for all of us. It comes as a struggle for power, when both the struggle and the power have really been taken over by the looming global crisis. What awaits the world, and together with Albania, suggests that a ridiculous amount of time should not be wasted to bleed the opponent, but that the time should be used to think and act for the economy and people's pockets. Let the turkeys and manure wait for approx. Now we have the problem of how to get through this winter, which will be dramatic for all of rich Europe. Imagine how it will be for the poor Albanians!


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