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Rama-Berisha, from statesmen to Chameleons!
2026-03-30 22:33:42 / IDE
The metamorphosis that Albanian politicians must go through is truly frightening. Just to hold on to power and prolong their agony in office, they alienate not only themselves, but also the glory they could have left behind.
Such are the two main actors of Albanian politics and of what today increasingly looks like a hybrid democracy: Edi Rama and Sali Berisha.
Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that power does not change a man, but reveals what he really is. If we look calmly at Albanian politics today, this sentence seems to explain better than any analysis what is happening to figures who were once called "statesmen" and are now ending up as electoral chameleons.
The first is the man who has built an almost perfect media mechanism, what I have called the “power of rumors.” A mechanism that does not try to improve reality, but to deny everything that does not serve it and impose the reality that Edi Rama himself constructs.
Edi Rama shouted loudly in the studio that he was the man who carried out the justice reform. He was the guarantee that SPAK would not be affected and that any of his collaborators who had problems with justice would face it themselves, not him, and not the Socialist Party as a political shield. He spoke of reforms every two years, of state formation, of the transformation of the State Police and of the transformation of Albania. In fact, Edi Rama only gave color to the institutions, but not form, just like a painter who is interested in the external appearance but not what is hidden behind a work.
In the first moment of the real test, with Belinda Balluku, everything was chewed up. Edi Rama not only chewed up what he had said, but raised 82 political cards against SPAK. Now he is trying to change several laws in the Code of Procedure, giving citizens the message like in Animal Farm: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal.”
He shouted for Albania's membership in the EU, but even though he has been in power for 13 years, not only have we not met any standards, but the EU has rightly criticized us because this government stole its funds, and the integration process depends solely on SPAK - where the country's prime minister calls them a "Republic of Prosecutors" and prosecutors "mice and dogs" because they dared to enter the heart of the Prime Minister's Office with inspections.
The second is Sali Berisha. Realistically, until a few years ago I looked up to him with admiration as a statesman. I do not deny this truth: in many respects I considered him such. But time, experience and truth strip a man of the halo he had held.
His return to the leadership of the DP solely for personal gain and the creation of a series of deceptive narratives against the Democrats finally exposes that figure. From international conspiracies to fables about invisible enemies, everything today seems more like an attempt at political survival than a project for Albania.
From the opening of the trial in France, to the court decision in Britain, to the fables with Soros and Biden about the non-grata and the fictions that Trump would remove it, they make Berisha's figure seem smaller than it is. This panorama overlaps the shoulders of his figure, which cannot bear the great weight of the past, and makes him return to the attacks on Lulzim Basha.
Today, the DP is minus 300 thousand votes from what Basha led, it is much more divided and destroyed, the branches of the DP are revolting and the right is not uniting, Berisha needs internal enemies. That is why he turns to false accusations and fabrications.
Two days ago, Berisha returned to the attacks on Basha, implying that Basha was collaborating with Rama, and even used a farce narrative without any facts. Political time has shown that Basha did not accept at any moment to collaborate with Rama and therefore the stamp of the DP passed to Berisha, and this has also been publicly stated by former DP MP Ferdinand Xhaferri, who shows how Berisha warned them about their political fate.
Berisha has also forgotten the words he said about Basha in Edi Rama's eyes a few years ago: "Learn what he has done: when he was Minister of Public Works, he was a vital promoter of the National Road; he was Minister of Foreign Affairs, the main promoter of NATO membership; when he was former Minister of Interior, he implemented visas for Albanians, at a time when you were concrete in Tirana and you didn't sell a single painting abroad. Even if you have three lives, you can never compare to what Basha has done."
These are not only Berisha's honest words, but also the great truth: in 14 years, we have not seen a single achievement from Edi Rama except emigration and corruption.
But today what unites Berisha and Rama is not the ideal, the vision or the responsibility for the citizens – no. It is the common problem with SPAK and their extraordinary talent for becoming electoral chameleons. Those who were once called statesmen now chew every word they say, like characters in their favorite story, just so as not to lose their chair and eternal power, at least in their imaginary world because political history has shown that you cannot have power for life.
That's why history does not remember those who hold on to power at all costs. It remembers those who were not afraid to lose it, those who did not become part of their own tragedy, and, above all, those who did not become electoral chameleons just to survive politically at all costs./Mapo
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