The European socialists taught us that there is also ideological alignment, as a criterion for the grouping of political parties in Europe. It was not only a game of dirty traffic of interests, but also a matter of platforms, ideas and visions that divide today's left and right in the old continent. The non-acceptance of the Freedom Party in the next congress of European socialist parties in Berlin, accompanied by the reason for the rejection, is a strong message that politics must also be a union of certain cultural and social values, experiences, worldview, analysis and attitudes of common, and not just the sport of millions that sometimes unites you with one side, sometimes with the other.
In the last 30 years, one of the most harmful and prominent basic defects of the Albanian political system has been that of the constant mixing of wings, the shedding of the ideologies that are the basis of the difference and the separation of major lines, the transition from one side to the other of the smaller political forces, or even worse, the degeneration in this aspect of the big parties themselves who preach a certain philosophy, apply its opposite.
Albania is the perfect laboratory of the death of ideologies, as the phenomenon has been called in recent decades, especially with the fall of the communist empire in the late 80s. A good number of the men and women who populated our political elite in these three decades were anything but aligned with opposing and competing ideas. They entered politics in the 90s to change the bathroom tiles, as lawyer Ngjela once said. One who wishes to exaggerate has regularly indulged in the idea that "communists rule here", blaming the origins of the democratic movement and its underwater ties to the dictatorial communist regime. Others say that here are all thieves, oligarchs, etc. They perceive them as a group, the logos they wear on their jacket collar are of little importance.
Albanian politics came by losing its fabric that allowed you to distinguish one side from the other. Many have hypocritically sold this process as emancipatory or liberal and modern. In fact, it was and is a corrosive and destructive phenomenon for the country's political life.
After the first decade of pluralism, when we suffered the years 97-98 and the brutality of the initial transition, we began to experience a long season where personal rivalries, petty interests and not political and ideological dasas, were the cause of political tension in the country. The left-wing governments, after getting fat with violations of all kinds, extended their hand to Berisha to give him the president and the general prosecutor. On the other hand, even the latter, after coming to power in 2005, extended his hand to the leftist Ilir Meta to pass the dead threshold of 70 votes won in the 2009 elections.
After that moment when LSI took a clear step of interest and not principles, the mixing of sides has happened more and more often, with left-wing deputies who have voted for the right or vice versa, with a party that was once seen on Rama's side, and a alongside Berisha or Basha. Albanian politics today is a market of living things where everything is sold and bought, more than an arena of collision of ideas that originate from different concepts for society, development and the direction of the country's affairs.
The decision of PES is a strong signal in this Albanian mishmash where there is no longer any value, no personal or group conviction, but only a race of millionaire interests. It is the right message to deliver in an environment where politics has ceased to be a commitment, and has turned into an unscrupulous trade of power. At the end of the day, it's quite simple: everyone knows that Meta's party is no longer left-wing because he wanted them to threaten Sali Berisha's fence. A party-pendulum that swings back and forth. Then why should PL go to a congress of the left?!