Protest that defies gravity and time

2022-07-06 20:34:39Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA SKëNDER MINXHOZI
Protest that defies gravity and time
Skender Minxhozi

Did you miss the octaves of Sali Berisha's voice at a rally?! The day came, the political clock was turned back by at least a decade, and we will once again hear the voice that has accompanied many of today's thirty-year-olds, since their early childhood, as they dreaded "that man shouting on the TV". The Doctor will return to his habitat, atop the podium of a rally, shouting and threatening as if it were 1996, not 2022. And if he does what he knows how to do best, that is to sow tension and create discord in the Albanian environment, others after him have decided to put aside their fear of America, to join the oldest chariot that knows Albanian politics after the year '90: the chariot of Sali Berisha!

Thursday evening's protest has within it all the counter-indications imaginable. It takes place in the middle of a torturous summer climate for anyone living in a suffocating city like Tirana, it is held at the moment when a part of the people is wearing a beach costume somewhere on the Albanian coast or even abroad, the protest challenges with its threatening tones thousands tourists who have come to see an unknown place, and who suddenly discover that there is party noise here even when there are no electoral campaigns. The protest also challenges the US Independence Day a few days away, as if to prove that the shepherd of the crowd of protestors' personal plight with Americans is there, among the thousands who will fill the square. This protest finally defies the simple logic of numbers and the biological age of a normal politician,

All these coordinates no longer apply to the third Sali Berisha. This is so true that he himself has admitted more than once, in the form of a boomerang sincerity, that he had no intention of engaging in active politics again, if the USA did not declare him non grata. In other words, I'm not for this job, but they barely shook me out of retirement and put me in the ring.

Berisha's PD (since the other one is just a legal convention already) formalizes on Thursday at dinner the birth of a project-person, of a format-person, which does not ask about logic and tactics, nor about the future or the past, but only for the present. The present of a man, who has already normalized being 'non grata' within the party, managing to defeat the group of rebellious deputies, capturing the branches of the party, and grouping the entire opposition media corps around him. All these factors together, they don't even want to know that what is happening is anti-historical, nor that by doing so the Democratic Party removes the much needed rotation in its head. Giving you mindlessly and unconditionally the emotion and "deceptive nostalgia" as Al Bano says in one of his songs, supporters and militants of the last hour, rabble-rousers of all hues and indomitable social media warriors who curse from morning to night will on Thursday challenge the eight-year plight of the anemic departed leader, clinging to a new months-long plight of the incoming historic leader. With this protest, the opposition of the new type takes the lead, which paradoxically has the leader of the old type at the head. There is no greater opposition than this, but in PD and around it now they just want to hear the voice of the Doctor on the podium. That's enough for you, the rest are "details". There is no greater opposition than this, but in PD and around it now they just want to hear the voice of the Doctor on the podium. That's enough for you, the rest are "details". There is no greater opposition than this, but in PD and around it now they just want to hear the voice of the Doctor on the podium. That's enough for you, the rest are "details".


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