Protests, everyone left peacefully and happily

2023-02-11 17:48:45Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA ANDI BUSHATI

   

Protests, everyone left peacefully and happily
Berisha during today's protest

Today's protest was large, enthusiastic, and successful in relation to the confirmation of Berisha as the undisputed leader of the DP, but small, pale and hopeless, to symbolize the anti-Rama discontent that exists in the country.

Beyond the speakers who took to the podium with the verses of Fishta or Ali Asllani, beyond the ironic slogans with "Burg Brother Vip" and the announcement of the beginning of the democratic revolution, everything resembled a deja vu. The news televisions started in the morning broadcasting the militants leaving the districts, the boulevard was occupied for two or three hours, at the end some red and blue checkers were thrown and then everyone left peacefully and happily.

So, although this protest is one more confirmation in the wake of those who have sealed Berisha's leadership over the opposition, it is very far from what the PD has offered us in the past. As a mass, it did not come close to the grand rallies under the slogan "Nano IK" in 2004, which brought, a year later, the change of power by vote. While in terms of severity, strength and show of teeth, it was not even compared to what the PD of Basha achieved in 2019, which thanks to provocation managed to highlight the violence, arbitrariness of the police and the disproportionate use of tear gas, which best depicted the authoritarian face of the regime.

So the question that is posed today to the initiators of the "democratic revolution" is: what is the value of continuing with these manifestations, which on the one hand confirm an achieved goal, that of who owns the seat, seal and sigla, but on the other hand are totally insufficient to shake the regime?

Of course, articulated in such a crude way, the question may sound cynical, because anyone who knows the real situation in Albania, knows that in the climate of terror of the patron Nazis and activists, working citizens are afraid to appear on the side of the opposition, that a part of the militants of Laçi and Mamurras, with whom Berisha once boasted that they could overthrow any government, have been recruited in time by drug and crime gangs, connected to the government, than in the atmosphere of rampant media propaganda, of the institutions of "independents" put into service and millions thrown to keep the opposition divided, the conception of a hurricane of change and hope is very difficult to take shape.

But, again, the question remains pending: what can the opposition do in these conditions?

One path, riskier, but shorter-term, is that of behaving as a radical minority. Exceeding the goals of legitimate protest, flirting with the disruption of false peace, it can produce the psychological effect of a power that is not unchallenged. Thus, on the one hand, it would embolden those who hate this regime of kleptocrats, but are afraid to demonstrate their feeling out loud, while on the other hand, it would create the general impression that this clique that only thinks about it robbed, he is no longer in a position to even guarantee safety.

The other path is more long-term and requires much more sacrifice and morale. It should aim at gathering all the opponents of the regime around this opposition, which, for its part, should become the refuge of virtuous and trustworthy people, through the initial union of all factors, which would then serve as a premise for expanding the ranks beyond the militants. But this project seems too idealistic and laborious for people who have immediate goals.

Therefore, as a result, PD and PL are doing neither. They are avoiding radicalism by pretending to be a false majority, being thus incapable of instilling neither fainting nor hope.

February 11 was the most visible product of this contradiction. Therefore those who had gathered on the boulevard came, saw and left calm and happy, rejoicing only in the victory of the war within the species. 


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