THE OPPOSITION: A UNITY GOVERNMENT, EARLY ELECTIONS
- Speech delivered by Prof. Dr. Sali Berisha yesterday in Parliament
THE OPPOSITION: A UNITY GOVERNMENT,
EARLY ELECTIONS
- Speech delivered by Prof. Dr. Sali Berisha
yesterday in Parliament
The purpose of today's session, called urgently, sadly reminds me of the final days of the Albanian monist regime. In complete similarity to its practice and language is also the agenda presented in an "extraordinary" session of a Parliament that does not represent the will of the people, of a government that has completely lost its legitimacy to govern. I cannot help but agree with the chairman of the PD when he speaks of a comprehensive crisis in the country.
Albanians are rapidly leaving the ships of a state that is sinking. Under the complete collapse of the economy and public order and amid a great moral collapse, we are quickly heading toward catastrophe. We are rapidly approaching a point where hope is replaced by despair. If we exclude political alternatives that block the peaceful resolution of the situation, very soon we will have a blockade of reform processes and an outbreak of anarchy.
Instead of presenting before this Parliament a rescue program that would inspire even the slightest confidence in Albanians, you are presenting for discussion an agenda unworthy of the crisis the country is going through.
A government that does not recognize the opposition as an adversary, but tries to destroy it, not by political means but by means of the state administration, is a failed government. It has not understood that power by force cannot replace legitimacy.
The current political and economic crisis is not resolved by procedures, but by political will. If the majority and the current government do not agree to make way for a political solution, then responsibility before the country and history will be theirs.
The Democratic Party and the opposition have proposed clear solutions: a national unity government, early elections, real guarantees for political pluralism, and free elections. Only in this way can the people's trust be restored and the further disintegration of the state prevented.
We cannot accept becoming a decoration for a failed process. We are here to defend the interests of citizens, not to legitimize the failure of a power that is collapsing before the country's eyes.
If the majority truly had responsibility, it would long ago have accepted dialogue with the opposition and set aside arrogance. Albania does not need justifications, but decisions. The people demand solutions, not alibis.
Therefore, once again we repeat that the only democratic path is the creation of a unity government and the organization of early elections under conditions of full political freedom.
Pain rises from the earth
THE EXPERIENCE FROM VLASI!
I do not know what dim light struck my face the moment I opened my eyes. In the old man's account, which came from Vlasi, there was mud, the smell of dampness, and tears gathered for a long time. He spoke of broken roads, of fields that no longer sprout, and of houses where there is no bread.
In Vlas, he said, people are no longer afraid only of poverty, but of silence. Silence has become an unwritten law, a stone on the chest. When the young leave, the old remain to guard the empty thresholds and count the days with their eyes on the road.
Pain is not only an empty stomach. It is the land left untended, the school without voices, the village without song. When evening falls, every light seems to tremble from fear and loneliness.
The old man was not asking for pity. He was asking for someone to listen to him. To listen to Vlas and villages like it, which are withering under dust, under deprivation, and under promises that never arrive.
Pain rises from the earth, because there lies hidden the truth of a country that is leaving its own people behind.
PARLIAMENTARY OBSERVER
Political solutions cannot be replaced by legal proposals
The crisis of confidence, oneness day constitutional political changes...
Political solutions cannot be replaced
by legal proposals
THE CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE REQUIRES POLITICAL CONSTITUTIVE CHANGES,
NOT PARTIAL AMENDMENTS TO SOME ARTICLES OF THE CONSTITUTION OR EVEN CIVIL LAW-
PRESIDENTIAL JURISTS ONENESS
[...]
IS EUROPE SILENT?
REFLECTIONS FROM THE COUNTRY
On the walls of the city, in cafes, in the long queues for bread and oil, in the weary conversations of people, Europe is mentioned as a distant hope and a nearby silence. We ask ourselves whether it sees, whether it hears, whether it understands how deep the exhaustion of this country is.
We do not ask for pity, but for attention. We do not ask for grand words, but for signs that Albania has not been forgotten. For many, Europe is the name of a door that still does not open.
Meanwhile, life here grows harder every day. People wait for news, for help, for a signal. But the signal does not come and silence takes the form of an accusation.
Will Europe continue to look on from afar? Will it wait until despair turns into disintegration? These questions are not rhetorical; they arise from a people's need not to remain alone.
THE FATE OF A PEOPLE IS IN ITS OWN HANDS
- Continued from the previous issue on the low moral actions of power on the eve of elections - Continued on page 2
THE FATE OF A PEOPLE IS
IN ITS OWN HANDS
- Continued from the previous issue on the low moral actions of power on the eve of elections
- Continued on page 2
Only a people with democratic awareness can keep its fate in its own hands. On the eve of elections, when pressures, fraud, and the use of the state administration become tools to distort the free will, civic responsibility becomes decisive.
Every vote is a moral act. It is not only a political sign, but a testimony of personal dignity. Therefore no one should surrender this right in the face of fear, bribery, or threats.
A power that uses low moral means on the eve of elections shows that it has lost confidence in itself and in the citizen. When persuasion ends, manipulation begins. And when manipulation begins, the very foundation of democratic life is damaged.
A people that defends its vote defends its future. The fate of a people is in its own hands.
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