It's been 11 years since Sali Berisha heard people talking about January 21. This event has left behind the tragic balance, but also the long "tail" of controversy that has not yet been extinguished. A major reason is because this tragedy consumed in the middle of Tirana has not yet found its truth. The prime minister of that tragic day continues to speak proudly of what happened at the foot of his office. He continues to consider the opposition's protest a coup d'état, despite the fact that in more than a decade he has not offered even a single piece of evidence for the accusation he makes. Not even his parliamentary commission set up after January 21 was able to produce either a final report or concrete accusations about the phantasmagoric coup d'état.
Berisha has long taken over the January 21 murders politically. He is the only one facing the tragic act, neither his relatives, nor any friend or colleague. Not even his ministers of the time. He, the only one, who said that he was sitting with a sniper rifle behind the window of the prime minister's office, waiting for the protesters to return. The one who obstructed the investigations for January 21, driving the prosecutor's office away with arrest warrants in hand. And yet Sali Berisha himself calls his relationship with the murders in question quite normal, while he accuses Rama of being a murderer for shooting a poet from the dictatorship. He forgets to look in the mirror and goes on the attack.
In the face of this bloody collective hypocrisy, the opposition has been mentioning the shooting of the poet Avzi Nela during the communist era, as in chorus for years, pointing the finger at Edi Rama without shyness and full of self-confidence. Well, the simplest truth of this story tells us that the person Edvin Rama has no responsibility in that tragic murder. Havzi Nela was not killed by Edi Rama! If he himself has to answer for all the actions of his brother, then we have officially returned to communism, when for a slip of the leg or an accusation against a family member, the whole tribe went into exile. If the opposition thinks that it wins votes with this hypocritical approach to a phenomenon that has traumatized the entire Albanian society in the past, it is seriously mistaken. We know the victims of communism,
On the other side of the rope, another fortunately political and bloodless event reminds us how the main politicians of Albania have a short memory and blind eyes, when you care that they are both sclerotic and blind. Thirty years after entering active politics, the former president has 'suddenly' discovered that the direct democracy of referendums is what Albania needs. Let's turn our eyes to Switzerland after wandering for three decades through the reeds of transition...with Meta, Berisha, Rama and Nano as presidents!
"Referendum time is coming forever! Therefore, on July 25, the historic decision was made to give Albanians the Freedom Party, which will be baptized as the Referendum Party very soon! Cooperation with every expert, factor, party, interest group and every citizen to legally guarantee the exercise of this constitutional right blocked by the oligarchy for two decades. The time when the minority decided behind the backs of the Albanians has ended forever", wrote Ilir Meta on Wednesday. Give him a glimpse, so to speak, after reading these lines.
Ilir Meta discovers the direct democracy of referendums three decades after he was the author of the first row of the capture of the state by the political oligarchy and a handful of faces who exchange the highest armchairs, refusing to run away. Mr. Meta has been the Albanian who has held the highest leadership positions of our state, since the day of its foundation in 1912. He has had more than anyone else to create more space and opportunities for voters to be heard and that political arbitrariness should not reign so dominantly and arrogantly as it does today.
He did nothing, as did others like him in this regard. Like them, he took the votes and used them to make this country tired and wasted.
Meta does not offer any project or concrete idea about the format, main goals, modalities and procedures that will follow the referendums. It seems far-fetched that his idea is to somehow limit Rama's power, but the populist and ultimate way in which he announces it tells us that this referendum work of Meta is just a thesis of the rally, not a concrete project. Like Berisha, Meta forgets his past, the records he left behind and the damage he did with his management style, where the notion of a referendum was little more than a cafe joke.