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The Socialist leader and Prime Minister Nano, right from the start of his rule, put forward for public consumption and won applause with talk of professional governance from the top of the state pyramid down to the local level. Partitocracy throws meritocracy to the mat The Socialist leader and Prime Minister Nano, right from the start of his rule, put forward for public consumption and won applause with talk of professional governance from the top of the state pyramid down to the local level. Other government officials, including the Minister of Reform, imitated the great leader, repeating in Parliament, at press conferences, and in numerous interviews: meritocracy, the pharmacist’s scale that will select the state administration. But there is a world of difference between saying and doing. Meritocracy very quickly lost credibility. In its place, just as quickly, came fierce party militancy. Little by little, the chosen ones were subjected to the criterion of partitocracy. After the deputy ministers were selected, lists are now being drawn up for the directors of departments in the ministries. The socialist loyalists are taking their seats in office chairs. As if they, too, must be the loyalists of the coalition’s governing parties? If the Nano government stopped there, that would be only half the problem, but revenge is apparently not just a slogan or an invention of the fussy opposition. Two days ago, the director of the military hospital was dismissed without any explanation. Was he, too, supposedly not professionally competent to run the hospital? In the name of partyism, a neighborhood doctor is running the Ministry of Health simply because he happens to belong to a party that ended up in the coalition government formula, while a doctor of unquestioned merit has his managerial abilities called into question for the tiny reason that he does not enjoy party trust. Partitocracy is moving down to the grassroots; in the last two days party loyalists have been appointed in the Milot-Laç region (Kurbin district), starting from the district council all the way down to the communes. It seems that the Nano government, after taking political power into its hands by appointing the prefects and prefecture secretaries, is also occupying the base of power, leaving the opposition the keys to the straw house. Soon, a shake-up is expected in the Ministry of Education as well. Minister Ruka, after surviving the interpellation, has secured his position and is expected to counterattack the blue camp. It is said that the changes will include not only the directors of departments in this Ministry, who will undoubtedly belong to the PS, but also the directors of educational departments in the districts. If there is resistance, there may be some structural operation that bypasses the education directors by returning to the former education sections. As can be seen, while meritocracy has remained an orphan, without mother or father, partitocracy has become the spoiled child of fate.

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