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Lorenc Vangjeli: Rama tired of power and without the support of former friends who brought him there in 2013
2026-06-07 11:18:05 / POLITIKË
Rama has always mocked the official opposition's protests against him. With more humor than political instinct, he also faced their violent wave after the burning of mandates in 2019, a time when the opposition committed suicide, with complete success. And as if to bring the fun to the end, he would then treat the protesters, betrayed by their evil, naive and devilishly stupid leader, to a cocktail of tear gas.
There was even more irony in the DP protests with Berisha at the helm. To the increasingly wrinkled fist of protesters, the "local" again brought tear gas, pressurized water showers, and pepper spray as a reward. In this way, Berisha's honor was saved, as he was unable to coagulate his anger against Rama's government on a massive scale.
The recent protests in Tirana, originating in Zvërnec, are different. To respond to them, he borrowed, as a return of honor from Berisha, the latter's former vocabulary. The Prime Minister used the expression that "...they come around like the jackals of Golden Dawn...". Thus implying that they are soldiers in a battle that does not recognize their commanders. At a time when every comparison carries the sin of being lame, the Prime Minister's comparison is at least wrong and exaggerated.
In the Perfume protest, as what has been happening for a few days in Tirana is being called, in cross-section, there is a previously unknown mass of young men and women. From all strata and categories of society. From those who are honestly angered by the pain for rare flamingos and pelicans, to anarchists and neo-Marxists who hate capital. Among them, perhaps a core inspired by the non-Albanian agenda can also be found, as Rama himself believes. But in mass they are part of an opposition much larger than that represented by the official opposition flag and the spears against the position. It is that part of the citizens who reject the cliché division between left and right, the power of the majority and that of the minority and who are frustrated by the new Republic of ZeqiLand, which does not give its citizens equal opportunities. Who feel that politics, even when it is sworn in their name, has not represented them for a long time. Who are unemployed and who are told with delight that the free world is only a few dozen minutes away by plane from Rinas, wherever their feet take them. Who suffer the terribly unequal distribution of income and the brutal increase in prices. Who see how the moral hierarchies of society have been overturned, where the strong and the bandit are honored and honest poverty is considered an unforgivable crime. Who are witnesses to how their vote is counted, but they fail to choose. Who see how a banal and appointed elite, in politics and business, is separated from their lives even formally by fences in oases of vanity. Whose product of theft is not hidden, but proudly flaunted as possession. Their frustration as spectators condemned to follow the real-life spectacle of Big Brother, with the same characters for more than three decades, characters who change only their roles, but not their names, has reached boiling point. It is precisely this cross-section of the Perfume Protest that a veteran politician like Rama should have analyzed. After that, he would most likely completely change his approach to it.
Time will tell, even if the protests gradually die down with the arrival of summer and the World Cup, that Edi Rama's enemies are much more than those who come out on the Boulevard. They will probably have in their portrait both the envy of neighbors, and hybrid warfare from countries unfriendly to Albania, but also much more than that. Perhaps conspiracy theories can also be proven that connect the famous Soros with a revenge against the former son-in-law from Albania, along with the former son-in-law who once loved his former father with all his heart. And it doesn't end here, it can begin here. What is terribly much and a bill that Albania and Rama's personal wills may be forced to pay by the end of this year, is the transformation of Zvërnec as a Casus Belli, a cause for war between President Trump and the Democrats in the USA. When the Congress and Senate after the midterm elections in November, they will most likely seek to investigate whether President Trump's daughter and son-in-law have used political influence for private business. And beyond them, there may also be European segments, perhaps Germans and British, who, beyond the formally correct language, find it difficult to coexist with an American president, at least atypical and unpredictable. And who would rub their hands if Albania brought a spectacular weapon to fight against him. It is enough to look at CNN, the New York Times and a series of traditional European media to understand that what the eye sees today is much less than what could happen tomorrow.
In this united front of hostility, Prime Minister Rama, who once said with pleasure that he lives "...in the solitude of the peaks", is not alone, however. He has as allies that unknown mass of Albanians who have already counted the four billion promised investment as if they were in their pockets and another part of indifferent Albanians, who do not distinguish the difference between flamingos and sparrows. Beyond them, there is no longer any calculation of forces. Without the support of former friends with whom he won the anti-Berisha "revolution" in 2013, without the sympathy of new friends that he has recruited from the ranks of old enemies, without the loyalty of mercenaries with many masters like prostitutes with many clients, surrounded only by the incredible series of cruel crimes that have been attached to him and the officials that he himself has appointed as politicians, Rama must also count on fatigue from power.
In this whole gloomy picture, paradoxically, he also has to hope for the generous help of his sworn enemy Sali Berisha. Rama probably still hopes to calculate that in front of the harsh portrait of Berisha, crippled by Gërdec and shot on January 21, he will continue to look like a high school student who, for a whim of the moment, lost her virginity to the neighborhood's scoundrel. After all, this is a world of contrasts and the calculation: "Well, he left, but who will come?", is always a dilemma that requires a solution...!
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