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Citizens in Tirana have been protesting for 5 days, Elisa Spiropali reacts!

2026-06-05 13:24:32Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Elisa Spiropali

Former Foreign Minister Elisa Spiropali says a new agreement is needed for Albania.

Referring to the protests that began five days ago in Zvërnec, she says that it is easy to go around with empty words and conspiracies.

"Now that all the murderous Macbeths and suspicious Hamlets have come out and entered the game, now that the murder has been done, the blood has been shed, the consciences have been shaken, the sleep has been disturbed, what else needs to be done? Not just anything. Something Shakespearean. Something lasting. Something that is done cannot be undone," says the former minister.

As he elaborates on the terms of the new agreement for Albania, Spiropali says that parliament should not only be the place where decisions are made, but also the place where society is heard.

"An agreement where the parliamentary republic exercises all its representative, controlling and monitoring functions, because democracy weakens whenever a power grows faster than the control over it."

Elisa Spiropali's reaction:

A New Deal for Albania
I was a child when, through the whispers of family members and the gossip of relatives, I learned that something incredible, but true, had happened in Skanderbeg Square.

Later I realized that something extraordinary that until that day could not even be dreamed of was a stubborn fact, a tangible reality, a "heresy" that no one was allowed to even dream of: it was a spontaneous and silent protest of the citizens of Tirana against the dictatorial regime of that time.

The noisy and creative protests of these days, compared to the silent protest of that time, are not psychological slips, they are not déjà vu, they are not cerebral aberrations. They are facts so different and similar that in their time and circumstances, each has its own importance and effects, to draw the respective lessons, and, as such, must be examined with the seriousness and responsibility they deserve.
What's done cannot be undone. What's done cannot be undone, says Lady Macbeth in the somnambulist scene as she sleepwalks with a candle in her hand.

It is easy to surround today's protests with empty talk, with conspiracies and barren conjectures: What crime did Lady Macbeth commit, why did she lose sleep, why did she get up at night sleepwalking, why did she hold a candle in her hand?
Now that all the murderous Macbeths and suspicious Hamlets have come out and entered the game, now that the murder has been done, the blood has been shed, the consciences have been shaken, the sleep has been disturbed, what else is to be done? Not just anything. Something Shakespearean. Something lasting. Something that is done cannot be undone.
Fortunately, this question has an answer.

What needs to be done today is a new agreement for Albania.
Every era has its own fundamental question. For many years, Albania's question was how to build the state. Today, the question is different. How to make the state bigger than the government and the institution stronger than the one who exercises the power. This is where the need for a new agreement for Albania begins.

Albania has now entered a phase in its history where the biggest challenge is no longer building power. Power has been built. Institutions exist. Administration exists. Laws exist. The economy is stronger than ever. Democracy is more consolidated than in the early years of transition. Albania has increased its reputation in the world and must protect its name at all costs. The challenge of our time is something else.

It is the ability of power to set boundaries within itself.
For more than thirty years, Albania has lived with the anxiety of lack. Institutions were lacking. Roads were lacking. Investments were lacking. Security was lacking. The state was lacking. Entire generations grew up with the conviction that the country's main problem was, if not the absence of the state, then the weakness of the state.

Today, for the first time, we are facing another question. What happens when power becomes stronger than the mechanisms of the same state that are supposed to control it. What happens when the problems of administration increase faster than accountability. What happens when stability begins to be confused with unrelated, unaddressed causes and consequences.
This is why Albania needs a new agreement with itself.
An agreement where the strength of the state is not measured only by what it builds, but also by the reduction of its ability to control, or what it consciously accepts not to control. An agreement where the institutions that oversee power are as capable as, and more capable than, the power itself.

Një marrëveshje ku parlamenti të mos jetë vetëm vendi ku miratohen vendime, por vendi ku dëgjohet shoqëria.
Një marrëveshje ku republika parlamentare të ushtrojë të gjitha funksionet e saj përfaqësuese, kontrolluese dhe monitoruese, sepse demokracia dobësohet sa herë që një pushtet rritet më shpejt se kontrolli mbi të.
Në zemër të kësaj marrëveshjeje qëndron një ide e thjeshtë. Askush nuk është mbi ligjin dhe askush nuk është nën ligjin. Të tre pushtetet duhet të qëndrojnë brenda kufijve të tyre kushtetues. Drejtësia duhet të ketë forcën të hetojë dhe gjykojë. Parlamenti duhet të ketë forcën të kontrollojë. Qeveria duhet të ketë forcën të qeverisë. Por asnjëri nuk duhet të marrë pushtetin e tjetrit. Sepse aty fillon deformimi i shtetit.

Një shoqëri demokratike nuk matet vetëm nga qeveria që ka. Matet edhe nga opozita që prodhon. Opozita nuk është aksident i sistemit. Nuk është pengesë për zhvillimin. Nuk është problem për stabilitetin. Opozita është shqisa që paralajmëron kur pushteti humbet kontaktin me realitetin. Shoqëritë që humbin opozitarizmin nuk humbin vetëm debatin. Humbin aftësinë për të korrigjuar vetveten.

Prandaj Shqipëria ka nevojë për më shumë garë, dhe jo për më pak. Ka nevojë për një sistem të ri zgjedhor që prodhon përfaqësim real dhe jo vetëm riprodhim të elitave ekzistuese. Ka nevojë për zgjedhje ku qytetari të ndjejë se vota e tij ndryshon ekuilibrat, dhe jo vetëm statistikat. Ka nevojë për një kulturë politike ku rotacioni nuk shihet si katastrofë dhe fitorja nuk shihet si pronësi.

Po aq e rëndësishme është liria e medias. Sepse nuk ka demokraci të fortë me media të pabesueshme. Nuk ka qytetar të lirë pa informacion të lirë. Nuk ka kontroll mbi pushtetin kur informacioni bëhet i varur nga pushteti ose dezinformimi. Shqipërisë i duhet një hapësirë publike ku gazetari të mos ketë nevojë për leje për të pyetur dhe ku media të mos ketë nevojë për favore për të mbijetuar.

Në të njëjtën mënyrë duhet të ndryshojë edhe marrëdhënia mes ekonomisë dhe politikës. Vitet e ardhshme nuk do të fitohen nga ai që ka më shumë asete. Do të fitohen nga ai që ka më shumë dije. Nga ai që ka më shumë teknologji. Nga ai që ka më shumë ide. Shqipëria nuk mund të mbetet një vend ku afërsia me pushtetin vlen më shumë se aftësia për të krijuar vlerë. Një ekonomi moderne fillon në momentin kur fiton ai që prodhon më mirë e më lirë, dhe jo ai që favorizohet nga pushteti.

This is directly related to the new generation. Albania no longer has the luxury of losing its most capable people. Competition, merit, opportunity, and not control, are the essence of change. Every young person who leaves does not take with them just a job. They take with them energy, knowledge, creativity, and a future. The country needs to create conditions where mind, work, and talent have more value than connection, interference, inventory, or privilege.
Equally crucial is the quality of public services. Education cannot continue to be treated as an administrative sector. It is the factory where the future of the country is produced. It is the essence of everything that surrounds us, in the present and in the future. Health cannot be measured only by investment figures, buildings, tools, etc.

It is measured by the security that the citizen feels when he needs it. A modern state is not built only with mortar and bricks. It is built with knowledge, health, trust and dignity.
This is where the battle against corruption begins. Not only in courtrooms. Not only in investigative files. But in the everyday culture of the state. Corruption is the ingrained belief that the rule can be bypassed without consequences. That the law can be negotiated. That power can be used as a privilege. That abuse can be normalized and glorified. The fight against it is above all a moral battle for the way we understand the state.

Albania has entered a moment where it does not need to prove that it wants to move forward. It has proven this. It needs to show that it knows how to build a state that functions even when power changes, even when interests clash, even when no one notices.

A country does not become European when it convinces others of what it is European. It becomes European when its citizens feel protected by law, respected by the state, free to build their lives without asking permission from anyone.
This is the new agreement that Albania must realize within itself.


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