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By Andi Bushati/ Lufta e Luli (no joke), it's really just begun

2023-07-31 20:04:00, Opinione Andi Bushati

Many of those who followed the joke of the election of Lulzim Basha at the head of what he continues to call the Democratic Party, conveyed this event with the cynical joke: "the battle has just begun". Some media outlets against him put this on the front pages as a headline, while the meme crafters added to their coction with a new episode of this old fable.

But, unlike the statement after the 2021 elections, which became a hit due to frenetic laughter on the show "The Unexposed", unlike the one that followed immediately after the defeat on March 6: "I have not lost a single battle " , this time Lulzim Basha has chosen a fight that is easier to win. He has really started a new crusade.

After failing spectacularly, for ten years in a row, to beat Edi Rama (of course, this is not only his fault), instead of changing his tactics, he decided to change his opponent. After he was convinced that he could not defeat the current prime minister, he made up his mind to serve him, to finally bring the others together. He chose to have the same enemies as Rama, to console himself that someday he too can be on the side of the winner.

Of course, on the way to this victory he paid a considerable price. Out of 53 deputies, only 8 are left. In a National Council that unanimously supported him, now there is no majority. In the last meeting of the chairmanship, he could not even secure the quorum to call it valid. And above all, to be re-elected at the head of a party that can change its seat, seal or flag but never its name, he reduced it from over 100 thousand members to 25 thousand formally (but who are actually much less than that).

So, even with the results he got in two electoral tests that were done, even with the number of members in forums, deputies or most importantly with membership, Lulzim Basha has accepted that he is a negligible minority within what used to be the PD united.

But, despite all this, he is a self-proclaimed leader and, just like in the past elections, with the help of Rama, he will steal her seal and signature, in order to achieve the goal of power: keeping the opposition divided.

And Basha is not kidding about this new battle. July 29 showed that he will go to the end of the mission to serve Edi Rama as a fake opposition.

So those who are laughing and snickering at his soapy fight are likely to be disappointed. Because this time Basha has chosen not to be on the side of the losers. Unable to be a victorious commander, he preferred to serve as a soldier for the other side. In this sense, his fight, the one to seize the rights that belong to the opposition as a minority, has really just begun.