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By Arman Shkullaku/ Safet Gjici, one of the fallen of the organization

2023-06-17 00:20:00, Opinione Armand Shkullaku

The resignation of Safet Gjic as the mayor of Kukës, after the publication of a compromising video, is a personal moral act. He took the responsibility of the scandal with him, wanting to close a personal affair, but inevitable from the political background.

The moralistic judgment about Safet Gjicin as an individual has no value. He, as he himself says in the text of his resignation, realized that the honor of his life was tarnished.

Here the problem is not with a man, who will suffer personally and as a family after this, the consequence of an act, which, as he himself says, was carried out with unforgivable carelessness.

The phenomenon that needs to be analyzed has to do with the spirit and typology of the people elected by the people, that the Socialist Party has installed in these years. This phenomenon is built on the philosophy that the power to collect votes is more important than the integrity and personality of the elected.

The latter, after gaining the trust of the head of the Renaissance organization and the power that comes from him, considers his mission accomplished. The power gained by appointment by the boss and personal investment in the campaign, this prototype of the Renaissance now considers it his right to use it as he likes.

Leaving aside the scandals of the Gjici type in Kukës or Shukriut in Dibër, there are dozens of cases where MPs or mayors of Rilindja have been elected representatives of the people only with the criterion of guaranteeing votes by any means. Buying, threats, manipulation, pressure and any other non-democratic form.

The consequence of this process, which has destroyed the concept of representative democracy, is the long list of ministers, deputies and mayors who have been caught in the net of decriminalization, or have ended up behind bars for corruption, drug trafficking and other crimes.

Never in the 33-year history of pluralism in Albania has a political party produced more criminalized figures at the highest levels of power than the Socialist Party. Ministers in prison and ministers under investigation, MPs and mayors, who seem to never end as long as the criteria for their selection is not integrity or public and political personality, but the ability to fill the bag of votes held by Prime Minister Edi Rama .

It is to be expected that after Gjic, the scandals will not continue. This stall has this dairy. Rilindja, even when it ran alone in 2019, did not avoid the model it has created and several mayors were forced to leave their mandates.

Edi Rama's power is based on an absurdity that he himself has nurtured for years. The candidates selected by him have a big gap in education and culture with the average of the society that votes for them. And yet they manage to get elected. The Prime Minister brags about them, with tambourines, jokes and taunts, treating voters like cows that eat whatever is put in front of them. For him, power is important and not service to citizens.

Rama's chosen ones, when they transform their investment into power, regardless of the mediocre level they represent, begin to behave like pashalars in the manor for which they have paid the tax to the sultan. They do not recognize any other obligation, apart from this tax.

That's why they think that they can give tenders to whoever they want, relatives or thugs they used in the elections, take the bribe they deserve from the distribution of the public spoils and why not enjoy life a little with all the pleasures that power allows them and moneys.

Safet Gjici is a consequence of this Renaissance philosophy on representative democracy, therefore he is not and will not be alone. It is no wonder that both Safet and the other Safets before him are convinced within themselves that they have done nothing to deserve punishment. They have fulfilled their obligation to the organization and considered the benefits of power a legitimate right.

They simply believe that they are victims of traps or circumstances, and not of the model with which Edi Rama maintains his power.