PD, with arms against parliament
Alarm reaches parliament and government from SHIK / Tomorrow unrest from the democrats PD, with arms against parliament Speaker Gjinushi: “Let them try” A difficult task BY FATOS LUBONJA According to an old saying, in countries that are to see the light of democracy, the latest revolutionaries, as soon as they have settled into the quiet seats, try to prevent the arrival of even newer revolutionaries. In Albania, although we do not know what the opposition lined up before parliament will do tomorrow, while the governing majority with all its mechanisms has announced that it has taken the situation calmly, that all measures have been taken so that order is preserved and 14 September does not happen again, that here we are dealing with a calm reaction of the institutions to these actions, in fact a revolution is being prepared that this calm institution, parliament, will find very difficult to face. Everyone knows what revolution means in Albania. First, the government and institutions are taken over, second, the people are changed, and third, as soon as these people are installed, accusations begin about yesterday’s and today’s criminals. If tomorrow the National Council of PD has planned to appear in parliament with the new saviors of the nation, with new members of the leadership and with a new podium attached to an old rostrum, the question is how far their game will go. If they intend to do the same thing as on 14 September, I find it hard to believe that the institutions will do the same thing they did then. First because the climate is different, second because a certain legitimacy of political violence has been worn out, and third because the same protagonists no longer even have the alibi of the great national shock. In the biblical story of the crossing of the sea, the sea opened before the Hebrews fleeing Pharaoh, but closed over his army that was pursuing them. The same happened in Albania. A few months ago, the “sea” of armed revolution first opened for Sali Berisha and his people, who with a strange energy crossed, unscathed, from anarchy to the center of power. But behind them, when others tried to cross, it closed. Now they may think they are setting off again toward the same shore, but the conditions are no longer the same. That is why tomorrow’s warning is frightening not so much for what the democrats may achieve, but for the kind of clash their attempt may produce. In a society where the weapons have not been collected, where trust in the state is fragile, and where the memory of violence is still fresh, the call for a “march” on parliament sounds more like a challenge to order than a political act. If this is only political pressure, it is dangerous; if it is something more, it is unacceptable.