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Ethem Ruka praises Rama: He has a deep culture, he changed Tirana, he is faster than time, even the democrats adore him

2024-01-07 11:44:35Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Ethem Ruka praises Rama: He has a deep culture, he changed Tirana, he is faster
Ethem Ruka and Edi Rama

It is common for politicians to have different intellectuals as their guides, but rarely for an intellectual to fall in love with a politician.

Ethem Ruka, ex-minister and ex-MP of the SP, but also the man who collected the "prime minister's scraps" from the office bins, to collect them later, has brought back to attention a writing that had been deleted; a writing in which Ruka spared no praise for Rama.

"This little Haussmann" writes the former minister, comparing him to the prefect of Paris in the 1850s (the person who rebuilt today's Paris)

"He has a deep culture, he changed Tirana, he is faster than time, even the democrats adore him", dared Ruka at the time, raising the then mayor on a pedestal.

Of course, his "pearl" could not be lost in the stores of the "Koha Jonë" newspaper, where it was published in 2003, so Mr. Ethem has decided to share it again with his virtual Facebook friends.

REFRENCH: EDI RAMA AS THE FRENCH BARON HAUSSMANN
One of the great boulevards of Paris is named after Baron Georges Eugene Haussmann. Few people know this brilliant figure, with whose name the renaissance of modern Paris is associated. Until then, this city was completely medieval. The cobbled streets were terribly narrow and all zigzag. There was a stench everywhere from the garbage and sewage floating on the surface. It was a time when the streets of London had pavements and the sewers had long been finished.
We are exactly on June 14, 1853, when Haussmann is appointed Prefect of Paris. The expansion of the Empire of Napoleon III could not be answered by the existing infrastructure of the capital that offered nothing for future social and economic developments. Napoleon wanted to see Paris as the most beautiful capital of the West. To achieve this dream, it took a Haussmann, who expropriated, destroyed and built a modern city, Paris, this city that today is one of the greatest European and world values.
From the narrow streets and ghettos, the avenues, squares, boulevards and magnificent streets of today's Paris were born. In 1878, the first public accusations about the way of using the income for public purposes began. The then parliamentary opposition used this opportunity to provoke a commission of inquiry and fierce debate against this rebellious Bonapartist. In 1878, with the installation of the Third Republic, he was dismissed from office.
Since then, more than a century and a half has passed, but Parisians, like all of France, have included Haussmann in the golden memory of the nation, remembering him as the architect of modern Paris. History re-evaluates itself and punishes the obstacles to progress into oblivion. Nobody remembers the name of the parliamentarians of that time, while Haussmann's name can still be found in every urban planning manual today.
At the time when Paris was rebuilt, Tirana had a history of about 240 years. In 1840, the population of this city numbered only 12,000 inhabitants. It took about half a century to reach in 1920, when Tirana was declared the capital of the country.
The first regulatory plan of the city was drawn up in 1923 by Estref Frasheri. Houses and gardens had to be demolished to open the road of Durres, which was called "Nana Mbretneshe". The truly modern regulatory plan of the Center of Tirana was designed by the well-known Italian architects of the Mussolini period, F. de Fausto and A. Brasini.
"Deshmoret e Kombit" boulevard was built in 1930. At that time it was called "Zogu i-r" boulevard. The regulatory plan of 1957 was drawn up on the basis of the existing condition of the road network as well as the addition of its improvement. This plan gave the city an extension to the limits of today's small ring. The system of radial - circular roads with two rings, one external and one internal, provided for 75 km in length.
From 1945 to 1990, the population of Tirana increased four times. The last decade of the last century marked a record in the history of this city. While in 1990 the population was 250,000, today's Tirana has about 1,000,000 inhabitants. The outskirts of Tirana lost control and everyone built where they could. The capital is in a state of shock.
The traffic began to increase rapidly and we realized that we had no way out. The city was thirsty for water and energy and we realized that the existing networks were insufficient and amortized.
People, wanting to survive, started trading with stalls on street corners in Dalëngadale, small kiosks with cardboard, plywood, ethernet, etc. started to be erected. Their number was increasing. The bravest conquered the center of Tirana, the free areas, the parks and undoubtedly both sides of Lana. It was the time of mass kioskization. People had to survive. Citizens sold the first floors and turned them into sales units. Kiosks began to produce money, which were then transformed into multi-story buildings. The socialists found the city of Tirana in this state in 2000, after the difficult governance of the democrats in the capital.
Edi Rama was elected mayor of Tirana. He was and continues to be an atypical man for the Albanian reality. He lives in the paradox of being the most praised and the most criticized. Distinguished anti-conformist, rebel in the fulfillment of his goals, modern pragmatist, right-wing at first and then left, man without complex, modern in outlook, media and artist in soul, intellectual who seeks rapid changes, man who has strength for resistant, cultured citizen and rich in ideas, rich in information, tireless in work, original in clothing and concepts for life.
Rama, in my opinion, is the man who will move faster than time and the opportunities offered by reality. He does not wait for the decision of the court to remove a pole in the street, but takes the ax himself to cut it. If you find mistakes in Edi Rama, look for the origin mainly in this contradiction.
They say that Edi Rama is a discovery of Fatos Nano, who was the first to promote him in the Albanian executive as Minister of Culture. Rama strongly sought to transform its culture and product from the framework of the previous regime to that of the market economy. Faced with strong reactions from the community of artists, Rama did not know retreat, but began to become more and more public, always more charismatic to the public.
I used to have him in my arms at government meetings. As a witness, I can affirm with conviction that Rama either opposed or passed over many government decisions in silence. He often asked to speak, but Prime Minister Nano tactfully avoided him. Once he couldn't stand it and turned to the Prime Minister saying: "You are giving me your word, Mr. Prime Minister, that even if you don't take gold out of your mouth, at least you will take out brass." This character was identified by the PS of Tirana for mayor, and he won with him.
The evolution of Tirana was spectacular. Tirana began to become the capital of the reborn hope of all Albanians. The changes were drastic. No one could have imagined that the ghetto in front of "Hotel Dajti" would be transformed into a wonderful park, just as Lana was transformed, massacred on both sides, the main streets, such as Durrës, Kavaja, Muslim Shyr, Kombinati, Unaza e Small, or as the central buildings in the city center were transformed. The colors of the buildings along the main streets gave the city an optimistic and festive look.
Tirana turned into a huge construction site, the city of reborn hope for all Albanians. In a period of a little more than two years, 135,000 m2 were greened, 200,000 m3 of waste were cleaned and 180,000 m2 of roads and sidewalks were reconstructed. cloud. During two years, nearly two thousand lighting points were installed and nearly 3,000 trees were planted in the city and around 10,000 in the lake park.
The story of Mr. Edi Rama reminds us of that of Baron George Eugene Haussmann.
In 2003 the mayor Rama was put under strict parliamentary control, just like Haussmann in 1878 by the French parliament. Both were suspected of misappropriation of funds. Great distance of time, but the parallels are the same. Haussmann was controlled when the third Republic was being established, and Mr. Rama on the eve of local government elections. The context was clear. Taking or losing the municipality of Tirana was the gain or loss of political credibility for socialists and democrats. The socialists did not want to lose Tirana, while the democrats wanted to regain it.
The financial paralysis and keeping Tirana's municipality under pressure would go in favor of the democrats. Control was tough and the parliamentary debate even tougher. The conclusion was nothing. Rama continued in office even stronger to govern for three terms, becoming the longest-serving and most successful mayor in the history of Tirana. The names of the parliamentarians of the investigative commission, although only 20 years have passed, no one remembers them.
The paradoxes are endless. One of my democrat colleagues made one of the harshest arguments against Rama in parliament. After a couple of weeks, that deputy in the co-confidence told me that his daughter, all shy, had told him that she would vote for Edi Rama. His father cut him off: "You decided too late, for me, I've been thinking about Edi Rama for two years."


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