Nano recharges with Berisha’s batteries
The pre-campaign words spoken by leader Nano—that “we will be civilized during the campaign”—were forgotten as soon as he got out of his “Benz” and stepped into the mud of the towns of Central Albania.
While the leader of the PD brought nothing new to his vocabulary. He is saying what he has been saying for three years now: “Thief Nano and the criminals in power want bulldozers.” Thus, Albanian citizens, worn down by the hardships of a difficult life, are being given these days the heavy anesthetic dispensed by the two major parties. Voters, instead of hearing plans and projects for the future or having time to think until September 30, are being put under pressure by party militancy, some with Berisha and others with Nano. The two giants of politics over these 10 years are intensifying their struggle to enter the game of eliminating another alternative, so as to maintain control of domestic politics and of foreign policy concerning Albania in this way. Most people want, at the very least, to hear about a better day; even if they do not believe it, they still want to hear with their own ears what is called hope for a secure future for their children. They do not want to go to rallies and hear about “bulldozers,” “criminals,” “thieves,” “beasts,” etc., since even without mentioning them, they see them before their eyes every day. When a person goes to an election meeting, they want to ask questions or be inspired by the words of the person they consider the leader of their political faith. But when their ears hear insulting words, their minds are blinded, their eyes grow misty, and they do not know what to tell their children—if, fortunately, the children have not been at the rally.
If Berisha, being in opposition to the PS and to himself, does not change his street-corner oratory, why does the moderate Nano fall into the PD leader’s game? Berisha has been there for three years, and he has not put any link in the justice system to work to judge his incompetence; yet these days, during the election campaign, when voters want a promise about roads, water, electricity, public order, etc., leader Nano recharges with Berisha’s batteries—batteries that will not even get him as far as “Rruga e Kavajës.” Why is that? Voters should not forget that after the campaign and their cheerful shouts, the crying will begin for them, while for Berisha and Nano come laughter, money, dollars, the devils of Mother Earth, to return to election campaigns again whenever they need to. And so it goes: Nano and Berisha insult each other, thinking they can remain in politics as long as possible, while voters are blinded by campaign rhetoric that never ends or lets up. Only the two giants benefit from the harsh words, while the little people lose—the people who fill the squares or the halls during election campaigns.
So tomorrow, too, at other rallies, they will insult each other, bombarding one another, to break things in Tirana and then fly from Rinas to Rome, Paris, Washington, or Athens to fight for the “rights” of the Albanian people. They both “burn with passion” to make the ordinary people burn; these are the people who, unfortunately, vote blindly, not knowing where their vote goes or whom it goes to.