Jospeh Limprecht supports the Government's response to the violence carried out recently by the PD's thugs

BY MARTIN LEKA “The party has the right to arm him, but the ‘self-defense,’ more or less, is the way I have seen it these days in the commotion of the people who have been involved with one another in recent events. On their faces are written in red paint fragments of torn face and skin, stitched wounds and many bruises; one can pour out the whole ‘benefit’ for the shedding of tears. They all remind me of the neat, green appearance of the ‘fallen policeman’, he insists with great zeal. For everyone, there also remains a big, exaggerated [word?]. In a scene completely opposite to that of the ‘fallen policeman’, on the other hand everyone sets off as if they were different characters in a film of the ‘battle in the square’ type, where they hit one another with fists and kicks. There is a recent event in which people are seen talking nonstop about ‘violence’, while behind them policemen, civilians, sticks and people standing together appear. The way it is narrated is almost entirely a mixture of statement and reality. People from the third parties no longer put up with this game for long, and even less should one expect the public to react calmly when seeing such images on television. The latter seems like a kind of ‘action’ game brought without any sense of responsibility. Sali Berisha calls it a kind of political solution, but it seems more like a repeat of the clash with the state. To speak of citizens carrying weapons and at the same time of democracy is a huge contradiction. What appears on the screen, amid the shouting, is fear and not strength. And the question everyone asks is this: who is fueling this violence and whom does it serve? In the final analysis, politics also has its own limits, and when they are crossed, the intervention of the state is not only lawful, but necessary. See how efforts are made to present the fist as an argument and the call to the crowd as civic mobilization. This is a dangerous slide that turns citizens into spectators of an ugly match. No serious society is built on the idea of the stick and physical pressure. And if some want to test how far they can go, then they must know that the state also has its duties to stop the chaos. In this sense, the government's response is not a surprise, but a responsibility. What those people who call themselves the party’s ‘defenders’ are, anyone can understand by seeing them in the street and on television. They are more pressure groups than concerned citizens. And when a party tolerates or uses such mechanisms, it harms not only its opponent, but also itself and the political system as a whole.

Technical Government with Prime Minister Pandeli Majko Before it reached the unlocking of the politics of recent days, the PD assault in “Tropojë” had one main objective clear. To topple the ‘Majko’ government. The news, documented by fax and telex and other papers, circulated in the circles closest to Sali Berisha. Thus, the news concerned the future prime minister being spoken of and the structures of the executive that would be formed. The list was called ‘Technical Government’, and Pandeli Majko was envisioned as prime minister. In specific parts of the SP, but also of the left majority, there circulated the view that the successive attacks against the government were aimed at creating a destabilizing climate and pushing toward a temporary governing formula. In that list, other names were also mentioned, but Majko remained the main one. Further on, in the analyses made in political circles, it was said that the attack on the newspaper, the attack on institutions and the mobilization of the crowd were part of a broader scenario. This scheme aimed to create the impression of crisis in order to impose a politically dictated solution. Into this logic also fell the efforts to minimize the role of the police and to present the state as incapable. The SP dismissed Majko.

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