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The cause was and is just!
2025-05-16 20:28:17 / EDITORIAL
The cause was just. It was just because it sought the resurgence of an opposition that does not hold the country hostage, that does not fight for the personal survival of a leader, but for the dignity of its voters. It was just because it aimed to put an end to the trickery between Edi Rama and Sali Berisha, where the declared opponents are in reality the most silent collaborators.
But although it was right, that cause failed to become a majority, not because of the fault of those who started it, but because of the inherited weight of a rotten system. The Euro-Atlantic coalition suffered a numerical loss, but not a moral defeat. The votes for it were courageous votes, the votes of citizens who wanted to get out of the box of emotional manipulation. They were votes that dared to come out against not only the government, but also the false opposition.
From the beginning, this process faced brutal resistance from the political, media and oligarchic system. Basha and the Euro-Atlantic Coalition were the hardest hit, not only by government propaganda, but also by the old opposition machinery, which despises any change that does not originate from it. They became the object of orchestrated attacks, coordinated slander and a silent blockade on any channel where a different voice could emerge.
This process did not start by chance. It took shape at the moment when Lulzim Basha made a difficult but right decision: the expulsion of Sali Berisha from the parliamentary group after being declared “non grata” by our closest allies. At the time, many called it an act of political suicide, but time has proven that it was a necessary crack in the closed system – a crack that allowed clean water to enter the Albanian political swamp.
In the end, Edi Rama could not defeat those democrats who voted for the Euro-Atlantic Coalition, but he defeated them with a scheme. By turning the seal into a political weapon, he helped Berisha more than any socialist in these elections. Rama chose his ideal opponent, the one he had defeated once, the one who gives him justification to stay in power longer: Sali Berisha. With a pre-prepared decision, he gave the seal to a force that is in battle with time, with justice and with itself. Not because he believes in its revival, but because he knows that as long as Berisha is there, he himself is in no real danger.
Today we are in a political reality where Berisha got the seal, but lost the people. His loss was profound, not only in numbers, but in symbolism. He could not inspire. He could not revive hope. Because it is part of the past, a harsh memory that most voters want to leave behind.
Now is the time to ask a fundamental question: what happens to the right-wing votes that do not want either Rama or Berisha? What will happen to the 20 thousand right-wing votes that represent the Euro-Atlantic Coalition? Where do those voices that demanded change go but did not find it in the old format of political conflict?
These votes are neither without an address nor without a vision. They demand an alternative that is not based on revenge, but on reconstruction. They demand a force that is not fed by nostalgia for the '90s, nor by propaganda for the socialist renaissance. They demand justice that is not used for political blackmail, and a state that is not divided like loot between parties.
Berisha has become a symbol of an era that no longer inspires, while Rama is a symbol of a government that tries to buy time through intrigue.
The cause was just. The loss is temporary. But hope can be regained – with courage, with justice, and with a vision that speaks the language of tomorrow. Because the time has come for the abandoned votes, who want neither Berisha nor Rama, to become the voice of a society that no longer accepts either the shadows of the past or the arrogance of the present. The time has come for a politics that belongs to the citizen, not to those in power.
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