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Mero Baze këshillon Helenën e Kongresit të Rilindjes

2024-07-28 20:04:00, Opinione Mero Baze

Mero Baze

I heard a lot of comments and above all Prime Minister Rama's comment about the speech of a young girl named Helena, through which he wanted to tell his "rivals" in the SP not to get tired, that he would retire when he was ready Helena for president of SP.

It was a good find to tell them not to fight over the successor. But since I have many years on my shoulders dealing with Albanian politics and Helena is the same age as my children, I allow myself to give her some advice.

The courage to read such a good text, at that age, sometimes becomes a problem for the rest of your life, after you fill your mind that fate is on your side, and you will now make a political career.

This applies to countries with a tradition of political careers. It was even valid in communism. But believe me, it does not apply in this political Albania of ours. In these 34 years of pluralism, those who have survived a political career are an anecdotal minority, apart from party leaders. They do. They do not run away and consider not running away as a career.

Here neither the chairman of the hunters' association escapes, nor the chairman of the water association, nor the chairman of the blind association, unless he dies.

Whoever was elected in 1991 did not run away from office because of his career. Run away from age, or other reasons, not political, as justice is now.

So forget that text you read so beautifully. Do not take it seriously that you will waste the most beautiful part of your life.

Go out with your friends, make your life as a free young woman in this country, try to do a good school except for the Political Academy of SP, which is named after a martyr at your age, who was probably killed by his friends communists themselves.

And when you do all this, try to do some serious work. Especially try to have a craft that makes you independent of politics at all times.

Politician is not a profession in Albania. It's argat!

If someone chooses you to work as a politician, and you enjoy it, it's called luck. Otherwise, don't despair, because you can't make it through your career.

There are no examples of political careers in Albania, of young people who succeed on their own. "Mjaft" has been the most successful group, which at the moment when most merged with SP, and some with DP, lost their identity and most ended up as meat for political dogs.

So don't take your speech seriously. This is very important for your future and that of your generation.

Don't even take seriously the prediction from Edi Rama's oracle, that you will be the next president of the SP.

He didn't have it with you. He has it with those in power, who fight with each other, as if the news has been released that he will die in six months and a new president is needed. It is telling them that I will be here long, until this girl grows up.

This can turn out to be more of a disaster than a fortune in politics. So ignore it! It's more or less like the photo of my friend Fatmir Xhafaj with Enver Hoxha in the 80s, in one of the last parades of the May 1 holiday. He still doesn't take it as a disaster every time they want to attack him.

I can assure you that he also had sleepless nights for a few days after that photo, thinking that now he was going to start his career and that photo could help him in life. He only saw the fight in that photo.

And finally, I want to tell you that the best example of all this that I can tell you is today's Congress.

I, who have been writing about politics every day for 34 years, like very few people in this country, did not know the three directors who became ministers. They may be better than the ones they replaced, but a day ago I didn't know them.

This means that it is not worth getting involved in politics, it is not worth the political career, it is not worth the political contribution to become someone, be it a minister, deputy, let alone a party leader.

Keep calm because fate can knock suddenly and you can become a deputy, prime minister, and president.

Most of these posts in this country are mostly accidental. We hardly made presidents, hardly prime ministers, hardly deputies, hardly ministers. Only party chairman we hardly did. We could hardly remove them. You have the example of that old man in the window.

So take it easy. Forget that speech. If fate is with you, it will knock on your door. But don't take it too seriously to make it through your career. It has not worked until today. The end of the Congress was against your speech.

Only if you kill this Congress, kill this speech, and this president who promised you the baton, then you can make your own destiny.

But I don't hope I'll get to see this happen./ CNA