Practically the entire political class has resigned!

By George Nika

Practically, in relation to the citizens, the entire Albanian political class has resigned. 

MPs, the prime minister, and the opposition leader may continue to hold their mandates, offices, and privileges, but they have given up the most important task of politics: communicating with the people.

This is clearly visible in the protests that have filled the squares and boulevards. A significant portion of citizens have taken to the streets to express their dissatisfaction, but in their face there is neither dialogue, nor listening, nor an attempt to understand them.

I am not talking about the opposition leader's communications with the leadership, forums or MPs of his party. Nor about the prime minister who delivers long monologues in front of militants, builds narratives on social networks and deals with influencers or attacks and intimidates analysts. These are communications within a closed circle, not communication with the citizen.

Politics today seems to only talk to itself and ramble. The "opposition" talks to the "opposition". The government talks to the government. While the citizen who protests remains unanswered. None of them confronts the dissatisfaction that has emerged in the city squares and on the boulevards of the capital!

In a democracy, protest is not a noise to be ignored. It is a political message. 

When thousands of people take to the streets, the first duty of a government and a serious opposition is to listen to them, not to pretend they don't exist or join them like "the garbage can after the harvest"!

Silence in the face of protest is the clearest form of detachment from reality, but also of the megalomania that mediocrity brings, not to mention the hatred they have for Albanians.

The problem is not just that citizens don't feel represented. The real problem for politicians is that they are starting to realize that their representatives are no longer even trying to pretend to represent them.

A policy that does not speak to the citizen and refuses to face his dissatisfaction can continue to govern or be in opposition, but morally it is resigned.

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