Today, citizens are rightly concerned about safety in hotels, on the streets, and in public spaces. But how safe do we feel in the buildings where we live?
It is enough to look at the elevators. Some of them are not licensed. Residents pay for maintenance, but who checks whether the service is performed by licensed persons, what maintenance is actually done, and who is responsible for implementing the law on housing administration? When residents, for various reasons, have not chosen an administrator, should the municipality intervene to guarantee common administration and security?
What about the sewage pits that have not been cleaned for years and one rain is enough to flood and stink up the entire area? In one case a few days ago, the area manager advised: "Don't throw paper down the toilet." While a resident, with humor, recalled that we used to throw newspapers too, but the pits were cleaned regularly and we didn't get flooded. The humor hides a serious problem: who is responsible for maintaining and preventing a situation that has been repeated for years?
What happens when a tower suddenly rises in front of the palace, changing the environment where we live and weighing down on an infrastructure that was not designed for such density?
When we bought our apartments, we also valued distance, space, light, and quiet. Who is responsible when these change without seriously considering the capacity of the infrastructure and the interests of the residents?
Therefore, the question that arises is: how will "BESA", "Prania Besnike", "PasqyrAlbania" and "Radar" address these problems? Will they serve to strengthen institutions and accountability, or will they remain new political buzzwords, repeated in chorus by MPs, while citizens continue to demand individual intervention for the rights they are entitled to and must be guaranteed by the state?
When some of them open offices specifically, skepticism becomes even more understandable.
The citizen is not a "case" that the politician must pursue, but a citizen with rights, while the institution has the obligation to guarantee them in accordance with the law and the public interest.
The presence of the politician makes the problem heard; but only the institution is able to solve it.
More than “Prani Besnike”, we need institutional responsibility.
E. Meksi, September 4, 2026