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By Agim NEZA olitics in Albania—a vivid confusion that we have become used to seeing on television screens and computer monitors, which afterward serve us their own distorted analyses and portrayals—has to do with nothing other than a symphony of interrupted signals on Albanian soil. And perhaps the so-called “mother of independent journalists” was completely exposed in order to have some lightbulb panes installed. How would you read it and arrange it? Pull out the symbols? What if you did not account for it as part of yesterday’s metaphors and today’s predictions? How could you not? How could you fail to understand that this country, from time to time, is tied to the frayed nerves of a nation that has tried and retried on its back, or the so-called “big house,” and that continues to think and to leave? Is there, perhaps today (perhaps), a way not to connect it? Was it made possible? Entirely! Albania continues the deformation of the system with the lights on. Slip! Still? But, maybe? Really? (Impression) Another vessel? “The Albanian lives without lights.” Does the “Albanian” have? Words swell with a gloomy tone, while the news of light arrives upside down: not as a promise, but as a bill. The government, KESH, politics, the opposition, the citizen—all are caught in a strange cycle where the lack of electrical energy turns into a lack of political energy. Every reflex of public debate smells of a burned transformer. The state pulses with interruptions. The opposition shouts at high voltage. The majority responds with blown fuses. And the citizen, in the middle of all this noise, remains without light and without hope. This is the electrification of Albanian politics.

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