The political identity of crime
The impression is growing that Albania is becoming increasingly ungovernable.
Fear for the future is resurfacing on a monstrous scale. The days are no longer ordinary. They are filled with killings, violence, psychological and physical terror. Politics is getting used to living alongside crime. The mobilization of political forces to prevent this coexistence is demagogic. This was demonstrated by the forces of the “Union for Democracy” grouping and by the chairman of the “Democratic Alliance,” who is also the interior minister, Mr. Ceka, through his statement in Parliament. Political warfare in general is conducted according to personal agendas. This stance gives rise to a sense of encouragement for crime and civil confrontations in general. Although politics offers more in the way of morality, the reason for the situation prevailing in the country is that political activity is not channeled within established and respected constitutional frameworks. Albanian public opinion is fully convinced that the chaos also stems from the absence of a constitution, but many political factions, driven by great ambitions for power, see themselves as excluded from the consensus on this major national issue. Adopting a worldview that corresponds more closely to neocommunist commitment, the PD and PS in particular are dominated by a struggle for survival and forget the country’s problems. They sense the possibility of polarization—a polarization that would not only be unprecedented, but could also create a fractured, more precisely paradoxical, conflict in Albanian political and institutional life. Their activity is partly concealed beneath democratic rhetoric, making it harder to confront the problems and adding to political and social dilemmas. The confrontations of recent days in Shkodër and other cities show that there is a political identity. But such political immorality cannot be imposed on anything.