"Their signatures cannot stand above the law" Enforcement of the law on unauthorized construction creates conflict among socialists

Gëzim Lloyra The famous duel within the bosom of a party, even if a very noisy one, always takes place with a certain special ritual, but in recent times in Albania it has become routine. After the end of the battle against Berta, in principle also on the opposition side, nothing has remained of one side, while from the other only the irrepeatability of an insult remains. Yet the formula had been this: one side was supposedly "foolish", but as long as it supposedly had the face to speak, it had kept itself together. To see how the darkness would unfold, the very last "filthy vocabulary" was then awaited, including the filth of the famous "commentators", caught in all sorts of trouble, still having to deal with vocabulary in order to call it political piss. Among them, one side was said to be sunk in scoundrelism and was the great one of the opposition! These are the accusations the adversary hurls at the adversary, and as soon as the throwers finish their own, they turn to people to show them that, by confronting this noisy clatter, it has degenerated and seems to be increasingly stuffed into the pocket. But no, despite his faults, he is accused in the interview in the daily "Satisfied with rummaging? More!". Yet the old formulas of insults have not died. Such was the case: he was supposedly "foolish", but as long as he supposedly had the face to speak, he was not a mute, but a serious, determined man. He has even made declarations about "the PD and democracy" and, according to him, it is time for the opposition to set its accounts straight. Others imagine this as a barricade, others as a game, others as a call, others as a ritual. That is the evil, when the formula of conflict becomes more important than the conflict itself. And the public, as always, is called upon to take sides in a duel that is more spectacle than confrontation of arguments. In Tirana with schooling. Linda, 23 years old, outwardly mature, has stated that a certain acquaintance of a ministry had insulted her over the phone, calling her names and epithets. He had even called her again and spoken badly to her while laughing. According to the complaint, the young man came from Gjirokastra and had proposed marriage. Another accusation concerns rapes, but only as an allegation and not verified by the police. These kinds of denunciations have taken hold because political dueling has turned into journalism and journalism into dueling. Meanwhile, let us return to the origin of the quarrel. It had been a reaction to an article, in which the accused person claimed he was being unfairly attacked. And then anyone connected to this story joined in the dance. The son, the brother, the journalist, the editor, the deputy, the minister. Instead of clarifying the facts, an endless chain was produced. This is the well-known Albanian pattern: a conflict begins as an incident and ends as a spectacle. In the end, the reader no longer knows where the truth ends and where the staging begins. page 5

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