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When the regime rules by law!
2025-08-13 12:52:41 / EDITORIAL
An interesting debate took place a while ago on the fact: Do we have a liberal dictatorship in Albania?!
I would call it, "Silent Dictatorship".
In silent dictatorships there is no war, no coup, no revolution. There are elections, there are parties, there are courts, there is media, whatever happens in the daily life of a nation there is debate in the media and social networks, there are also different opinions.
Nothing seems wrong or abnormal on the surface.
But beneath the surface that seems completely normal, the dictatorship in the name of the rule of law installs rule by law.
Through this strategy, the regime consolidates its power and claims to voters and international observers that legal changes have been subject to proper consultation and transparency processes.
Have we always demanded the rule of law? Then the law is being used to rule us!
The power to concentrate resources, such as land use or other rights in a few hands, is done by law. With the laws of strategic investments, 1 euro rents, or laws with special names. The freedom of the market and competition were killed and in a free country, a civil oligarchy was formed.
So, the economy we have today, where on one hand a handful of strategic investors offer resorts, universities, financial services, hydrocarbon trade, international transport, high towers and on the other hand hundreds of thousands of shopkeepers who provide services with low productivity, who in order to ensure their livelihood violate the law by occupying public spaces with tables and tents.
But with preferential laws and on the economic favors received from the government, free media flourished, which, tightly caught in the economic trap of the government, become shamelessly pro-regime.
So the law narrows the spaces for freedom of speech and economic freedom in such a way that pro-government groups or those with government-related goals are the only ones that can flourish.
By law, the middle class is taxed more, and in the name of the law, the sidewalks are cleared of small business tables, and by law, we are suffocated by concrete.
So by law, it is decided that there will be little or no freedom for people who are forced to leave the country.
And unfortunately, even the EU, which serves as the ultimate test of the rule of law and democracy, is not immune from the pandemic of rule by law.
Right inside the EU are Poland and Hungary, respectively, which are listed as among the most silent dictatorships in the world.
Without a careful eye, rule by law looks like democracy, but it is precisely the game of law that completely consolidates the regime, and once the regime is consolidated, it is very difficult to break, much less by election.
Liberal or silent dictatorship, the name matters little! The question that arises is: Is the new Penal Code, for example, another case of how the law restricts freedom of speech, freedom of property ownership, in order for the regime to consolidate its rule?!
If the answer for many of us is "YES", unfortunately neither the EU nor the opposition are sufficient guarantees for the eventual non-establishment of the regime.
Under these conditions, whether we call it a liberal or silent dictatorship, it matters little!
If by law we are deprived of our freedom and we do not take care that this does not happen, we simply do not deserve freedom!
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