PPK chairman: The Joint Commissions should be reactivated P. 3 Paf. ’99

By Agim Baçi Albanian Dollka, in the difficult conditions of democracy’s existence in Albania, the country needs more than ever, after all, mainstays. This deadlock of non-withdrawal will take on the collapse of the transformation of the Albanian market and the modernization of the governing and party structure. Now, at this stage, after several time-limited givens in the same phase. The opposition’s insistence on re-evaluating the candidates is not in itself an unnecessary thing, but a way to keep pluralism functioning, which they have struck without seeing the principle since the pluralism that emerged in Albania at the beginning of the 1990s. It must be avoided for a calmer period, without placing itself in the role of moral judge, the Albanian political class and part of the Albanian public must emerge from the rigid state of official and individual Albanianism. The claim that “the SP has won cleanly” in no way cleanses the responsibility to lead the country toward the truth that the people must know. Here it seems that the political class and government institutions do not care about the rules. In the ballot confrontation of this situation, first and foremost the need for a political solution must now be placed, not only in the name of calm and public order, but also to avoid an irreversible warning like in February 1997, since in today’s scenario, especially for the left electorate, the SP has fewer possibilities to face it without flinching. And the most important thing remains the free one, that we do not declare it, and this not as a merit of the “moderate Albanians,” but as an irreversible reflection of the official vocabulary, much more of that part of opinion guided less by argument and more by the party’s stomach. The non-risking of the country has remained entirely in the hands of the political class in Albania, which must once and for all understand that dialogue, which often also stood among the slogans, must be a special way to find sustainable solutions. (But what kind of sustainability can also be demanded as a slogan from a political class that over these years has mostly felt that the public’s patience will always remain in the “drawer” of its own outbursts?). The non-existence of declared “rivals” mostly at a personal level was seen before this week also in the case of the statement by former PD chairman Sali Berisha, who said with irony that “one should not have hoped that the left had placed itself at the center of the consensus,” but also by the late Pjeter Arbnori [?], who called it a “dirty spectacle.” It remains to be seen whether, in the end, Albanian politicians will have the courage to understand that only free competition, respect for institutions and for the vote is the cornerstone of a functioning state. [?]

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