Berisha's Farewell
Guilty for the March events, he holds the whole party hostage
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Nano between two fires
BY AREN HASANI
It seems that the end of the era of Albanian megalomania and extreme arrogance has now come unexpectedly. Fortunately for us, it has opened peacefully, at the very last moment. Will Fatos Nano be able to achieve his 14th victory against Sali Berisha's iron determination? In the end, after losing even the calm and oppositional laughter of Nano, the chances remain fewer and fewer. Thus, two days before the 14th round of talks to sit at the table of the Speaker of Parliament concludes, the last bastion of Berishaism and the combined violence against the state has delivered the final blow, despite the fact that, still mixed with shadows, the arrest of Azem Hajdari and the burning of his car, it constitutes yet another extreme gesture by Nano's opponents. The opponents no longer have a clear mind, and Berisha's opponents, as long as his and his circle's chances of saving themselves remain untouched.
Two days ago, Fatos Nano and his government made the smartest move in 12 years to choose the winner without losing even minimally and without damaging the security that had been created regardless. At the moment when, for the vote of confidence for the government, he needed no fewer than 64 votes, the Albanian prime minister, whereas before this vote was obtained with hundreds, changed tack in order to remove Fatos Nano from the game. The absurdity was no less in the case of the culprit for chaos and anarchy, at least as long as the opposing possibilities of personifying terror with the current and unusual head of the opposition were concerned; the moment, by escaping at 4 a.m. without becoming part of the confusion of the public scene, normally discussed, for the blackening of that which has been invented, is changed through the government confidence vote. And in the coming days the country will discover that the conditions began where the infinity of the previous government arrives.
By seeking to replace the government head with Arben Malaj for an important post, but not with another deputy, Nano risks creating a finished precedent and revealing that the proper alternative to Berisha is the destruction of his mechanisms. As a year ago, the opponents have no time to think about what will happen to them. Berisha himself and many others from his group have been accused as the architects of political crime. It is no surprise that for this reason they are doomed not to give up the scenario of conflict, seeing day by day that their role is diminishing.
Here the issue is no longer simply party disagreement, but an effort to preserve influence until the end. It is clear that the only solution is their removal from the decision-making centers. If Nano wavers again, then the country's political agony will be prolonged.
Nano between two fires