DOSSIER / Long's old passion, how the agreement with Prime Minister Jorgjie Pjepri was reached

2023-11-07 20:43:57Patronazhisti SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
DOSSIER / Long's old passion, how the agreement with Prime Minister Jorgjie
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TIRANA / ROME / WASHINGTON / LONDON - For years now, the peace of the government areas of Rome, London, Washington has been disturbed by a tall creature that comes around pulling an ecological cart with lithium batteries. He is not a bad person, he has even entered the hearts of the residents because he is funny, a joker and even has some talent for drawing.

The tall thing struts through the prime ministerial and presidential habitats of the West and shouts in a baritone voice:

"Come on, we buy old stoves, refrigerators, washing machines here. Old stuff, stuff you don't need!” 

Foreign governments occasionally take out a rusty boiler, Obodin refrigerator or old Czech washing machine in the alley, which i Gjati buys for a little money and takes to the recycling point in his neighborhood. Often foreigners do not even take the money, out of sympathy for the suffering man. In return, as a sign of gratitude, he quickly sketches a momentary portrait with a piece of charcoal.

"It's a shame that it ended like this. He is talented,” they say to each other.

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For those who know his story, they remember that Tall's passion for old things started when he was young. He was so fascinated by some old Byzantine icons he had seen in Berat, Korçë found them during excursions with the school, that when the meal came, he started looking for them and collecting them from where they were and where they were not.

"They will break down, they will rot," he said to those who brought them wrapped in cloth bags, " give them to me to preserve and restore them because they are the heritage of the people."

Even when he decided to enter politics, he learned from his first mistake, when he wanted to join a new party. They didn't approach him, and from that day he realized that only an old party was the right thing for him. He was told about a fringe party that had been established for 50-odd years, and that's where he eventually went.

"With my work, I will make you even older than you are," he solemnly promised the old men and women he found under the half-demolished roof of the Socialist Party.

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And it actually worked. It made the party even older than the rival, which had begun to mold and blacken fleas and lice at the speed of light. So old that it brought him to power. But Gjatin was not intoxicated by success. Even as prime minister, he did not stop looking for seniority up and down.

The first thing he found were some half-century-old chemical warfare agents that America had collected in Syria and wanted to destroy. "What do you say, brother, bring them so I can dismantle them," said the Tall, " and any other antiquities, stoves, washing machines, Byzantine icons, what have you."

But the pigs in their neighborhood, who don't smell like art, didn't like the chemicals and protested.

However, i Gjati did not lose hope. With patience and persistence, he asked in London, Paris and elsewhere to give them the spoils they didn't need. London and Paris agreed to take Albanian immigrants who were caught without papers. While Rome, which historically used to bring barges of garbage to be buried in Albania, surprisingly, it spoiled it a bit:

"Anyway, our Albanians are all with papers," the Italians told him, " we can't give them to them ."

However, common language was found. Finally, I Gjati was able to extract from Italy the promise that the African refugees who wanted to come to the Apennines, would be sheltered in Shengjin, where they could play backgammon with the local Afghans until their documents were approved or not.

"Let them come to us, " said i Gjati to Italian Prime Minister Jorgjie Pjepri, "everyone in Shengjin speaks Italian." They will remember that they came to Perugia".                

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