INSURRECTION/ SP MPs rebel, drag Gjati to vote on territorial division!

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2026-10-14 20:09:13Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA FILIP ÇAKULI

A protest can shake up the government, but when it starts burning down private businesses, tearing up street signs, breaking traffic lights, and attacking institutions with rocks, we no longer have just civil revolt. We have crossed into territory where anger risks turning into anarchy.

Tirana is paying the price for a clash that is not only the government's fault in the face of protesters. Citizens, businesses and public property are also paying the price. Pots are burned, railings are torn down, traffic lights are destroyed and stones are thrown at the police. In fact, when the crowd forces its way into the Ministry, the protest can no longer be justified simply by the right to protest.

The right to protest is not a license to destroy. And the police cannot stand by as spectators in the face of violence. They must guarantee order, protect life and property, using necessary and proportionate force, not by turning the uniform into an object of revenge.

But this is where the responsibility of the protesters ends and that of the government begins.

The government cannot hide behind the stones thrown at the police to avoid hearing the reasons for the anger. Students have been protesting for months and, if their demands have not been answered, institutional silence only deepens the crisis. A government that does not listen when the people speak should not be surprised when they raise their voices. But neither can it accept that voice be replaced by fire.

In this protest we see students with their demands, but also the presence of opposition politics. The weight of each side and who is leading the escalation should be proven with facts, not labels. However, when a student protest ends with burning, destruction and attacks, the question naturally arises whether the initial anger is also being used for political purposes.

It is not enough to wave the student flag to give any action moral immunity. Nor is it enough for there to be militants within the crowd to deny every student the right to be heard.

We are no longer about flamingos, jokes or the symbolism of protest. We are about responsibility for what is happening on the streets. When the property of a private business is destroyed, the Prime Minister is not hit; someone who may have nothing to do with the political conflict is hit. When a traffic light is broken, the government is not punished; the citizen is put at risk. When a boiler burns, the bill does not go to the party, but to the community.

In Paris or Rome, clashes with the police are part of the history of protests. But the fact that violence also occurs in European capitals does not make it acceptable, nor does it justify the indiscriminate destruction of an entire city. The right to protest is protected precisely by not confusing it with the right to harm others.

Meanwhile, the government remains silent, while the police face pressure from the crowd. This cannot be a governing strategy. Neither the expectation that fatigue will disperse the protest, nor the hope that the images of violence will strip it of its legitimacy.

The government must come up with concrete answers to the students' demands, with deadlines and institutional responsibilities. "To govern is to make them believe," writes Machiavelli in his book, The Prince. and more significant is that of De Gaulle: "To govern means to choose between disadvantages."

The police should protect order without punishing peaceful protesters. Organizers should clearly distance themselves from violence and not use the crowd as a political shield. Meanwhile, perpetrators of criminal acts should be identified individually, based on evidence.

Because a city cannot be held hostage to either a government that does not listen, or a mob that destroys. “The mobs do not really govern, but they have a tool with which they influence all the affairs, adventures, and crimes of the state,” writes Kadare.

When the government doesn't listen, the street becomes a platform. When the street starts to burn, politics can't continue to pretend not to see. And when both sides leave reason out, Tirana is left with nothing but to pick up the pieces.

So extreme violence and government indifference are not the solution. Both sides have lost their reason and perhaps when the time comes, procopia will take over...


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