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Spiropali reacts to the strong clash with Rama at the SP Group meeting: Meritocracy no longer works as a practice! Arrogance and abuse…
2026-03-31 12:49:01 / POLITIKË
A few days after the strong clash with Prime Minister Edi Rama at the SP Group meeting, Elisa Spiropali's reaction has also arrived, who, through a long post on social networks, says that "silence is not a lack of response."
Former Foreign Minister Spiropali expands her reflection beyond the personal case, describing the situation as part of a broader social pattern.
According to her, a reality is being consolidated where arrogance and abuse risk becoming normalized, while meritocracy fades in the face of conformism and adaptation to power.
"What is happening is not simply a personal matter, but a manifestation of a model that is expanding with a silent normality, where arrogance and abuse are no longer presented as deviations, but as socially acceptable forms. This model does not only impose decisions, but builds a culture where obedience is considered a virtue and adaptation is rewarded more than merit, gradually shifting politics from a space of competition of ideas to a closed structure where it matters how much you adapt, not how much you are worth," writes Elisa Spiropali.
She warns that in such a climate, public debate does not disappear, but is suppressed, creating invisible tensions, while freedom risks being reduced to a formal concept rather than an everyday practice.
"Here begins the silence of debate, not as a lack of thoughts, but as a lack of space to put them into practice. Because debate does not disappear, it is suppressed, and when suppressed, it does not create calm, but an invisible accumulation of tension. And precisely where debate is replaced by silent agreement, meritocracy begins to be mentioned as a principle, but no longer functions as a practice, because it requires a justice that does not accept compromises with the comfort of power ," Spiropali further writes.
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There are days when people talk about me on shows and forums, with a certainty that often comes not from knowledge, but from the need to fill the void with versions. The voices increase, the interpretations multiply, while what is missing is the calmness to understand that not everything that happens requires an immediate public confession.
My silence is not a lack of response, it is a boundary set between what needs to be said and what needs to be understood, because in a time when everything needs to be explained, we risk losing the meaning of responsibility itself.
What is happening is not simply a personal matter, but a manifestation of a pattern that is expanding with a silent normality, where arrogance and abuse are no longer presented as deviations, but as socially acceptable forms.
This model does not just impose decisions, but builds a culture where obedience is considered a virtue and adaptation is rewarded more than merit, gradually shifting politics from a space of competition of ideas to a closed structure where what matters is how well you adapt, not how much you are worth.
In this process, victory begins to lose its moral content and is reduced to a result, while the faith that legitimizes it is imperceptibly weakened. And when illusion replaces reflection, then dignity also begins to be treated as a negotiable element, dependent on the moment and position, not as a value that stands beyond power.
This is where the silence of debate begins, not as a lack of thoughts, but as a lack of space to put them into practice. Because debate does not disappear, it is suppressed, and when suppressed, it does not create calm, but an invisible accumulation of tension. And precisely where debate is replaced by silent agreement, meritocracy begins to be mentioned as a principle, but no longer functions as a practice, because it requires a justice that does not accept compromises with the comfort of power.
In this climate, fear does not need to be declared to exist; it is felt, silently diffused, and becomes part of a new order where people learn to measure words, not by their truth, but by their consequences. And when this happens, freedom loses its character as a daily exercise and is reduced to a desire that is mentioned more than practiced. This is perhaps the most refined form of restriction, when freedom is not forbidden, but diminished.
Meanwhile, Europe remains a permanent reference in the discourse, a word used to legitimize every direction.
Europe is not a narrative to be quoted, but a value order that demands compliance, and any distance between word and practice makes this reference empty. At this point, politics faces a question that it cannot avoid: are we building a system that produces responsibility or a system that justifies and reproduces itself?
Victory is not taken, it is proven.
It is deserved when people do not follow you out of fear, but trust you out of conviction, and when you leave, respect remains, not just the result.
Therefore, I have not spoken about myself, because this is not a story that begins and ends with an individual. It is a reflection of a time that requires more reflection than reaction. And perhaps, at a moment when everything requires a voice, silence becomes the strongest form of speech, because it does not submit to immediacy, but gives time to the truth to take shape.
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