Earthquake in the cabinet Meta topples Meta
EDITORIAL
By Neritan ALIBALI
Coup in the Palace
The lightning-fast dismantling of ministries and the replacement of four ministers and half of the government cabinet amid gossip has taken on a more than unexpected character. This is a political comeback by some figures with sacrifice, with incapacity or for other reasons, but not a normal rotation of political elites and posts. For Ilir Meta's opponents, the problem and the failure of his government are already over and will no longer be a pleasant topic for the government and their government.
What is happening to the government is only the tip of the iceberg of a crisis of composition, struggles for power and interests that have now been fully exposed. If some ministers were to move quietly in some foreign government, it would be understandable. But their departure and the arrival of others made Albanians remember how far the escalation and instability reached by Albanian politics has gone. It seems that even failure was not enough to make clear that yesterday's government can no longer continue.
At this very moment, Meta too, position and opposition, condition and means, become one. Prime Minister Meta was the first from his government not to show any signs of remorse. A lifelong opponent of governments with the self-righteousness of the left wing, he is trying to be elected. If the changes taking place in the government he leads are a reckoning with the problems, he is showing that he accepts the failure of his own government. If the changes are a nervous reaction to the loss of the quartet and of the parliamentary majority, he is showing that the government is only the decoration of a political conflict within the PS. The indisputable history of Mr. Meta's eroded political authority is now more visible than ever. His anarchic surges, his Halldupian solutions, and the power clashes in the cabinet through clientelist appointments have penetrated far too deeply into the cabinet and the government. Meta's new government, it seems, will amount to no more than the slow death it is now going through and will govern. Its end will be only that of a government and not of governance in general, but after the friction of the government, of our agreement and the new government, the government...