By Kreshnik Spahiu
“It’s easier for me to fill a bag with fleas than to put two Albanians together.” Fishta wrote this verse in his works to ironically criticize the lack of unity, personal grudges and the difficulty Albanians have in finding a common language on major issues.
From the beginning of the flamingo protests, anyone who advised the protesters to structure themselves in a new political movement was anathema as a man of Rama or an opponent of the protest. He was even bullied with insults.
There was actually a questionable fact in the protest between their demand for Rama’s resignation and the refusal to put forward their leader as a candidate for prime minister. At first this seemed naive, but time is showing that they were on a mission.
They wanted to go to the elections only with PD-SP logos and with two candidates: Rama and Berisha.
The refusal to create a rival list in the elections, like the Belgrade students, was illogical, but it will soon make sense.
They will do exactly what Edi Rama and Sali Berisha want: they will create several divided opposition parties.
Both were not interested in creating a party, but several new parties, which will fight each other.
The first five parties are announced these days and five more in January:
* “Diaspora Party”
* “Free Albania Party”
* “Nationalist Party”
* “Islamic Democratic Party”
* “Student List”
* “Flamingo Party”
* “Green Environmentalist Party”
* “Party New Albania”
* “Albanian Intellectual Movement”
* “Forca Albania”
Officially, the first five parties have started the procedures, but they are still fighting among themselves about who will be the president.
It is not excluded that, by the 2029 elections, these ten new parties will split into several factions and become 20 or 30 parties.
There are many naive people who say: “Let Rama and Berisha leave, let a dog or a cat come to the top”.
In fact, the opposite is happening: Rama and Berisha are continuing their quiet and safe journey, changing the electoral system with 101 deputies and open lists in national proportional.
This means that the minimum threshold to enter the parliament will be 5% and that to enter the Assembly, a minimum of 150,000 votes will be needed.
Then we will understand that the protest, even if it fills the lists with dogs and cats, will have no chance that, with ten new opposition parties, it will ever set foot in the Assembly.
Apparently, the time has come for some of the protesters to take off their masks and for the people to understand that they are not a bag of fleas, as in the verses of Gjergj Fishta, but some red lice, who, to be the first, will create dozens of parties just to become presidents, without bringing us any change from the two knights Rama-Berisha.
Unfortunately, the anti-establishment “revolution” is grist to the mill of Rama and Saliu.
Dozens of new mills are copying the ugly design of old jackets.
They did not produce either a leader or a movement because leaders are not created but born as such from the first day out of the need and crisis for change.
5 months were enough to understand that among them there were no born leaders but some generically modified species in the laboratories of those who still do not want a new Albania.
