Why is Veliaj behaving as guilty?

2024-04-04 16:51:00, Opinione Andi Bushati

Erion Veliaj

In the municipality of Tirana, with the same ease idiots who decided to steal are trying to hide the incident. If you look carefully, the way the directors of 5D planned to steal public money is very similar in technology to the strategy they are following to disappear the news from the screens.

In the first instance they fell short by acting naively. Instead of continuing to take bribes according to tradition, giving the tenders to companies that were in the market, they created one of their own and paid her over 20 million euros.

In the second case, they are behaving equally naively and frivolously. Although SPAK has arrested three of the most important directors of Veliaj, all the pressure is being exerted so that this news is not shown on the big TVs and especially not debated on the evening shows. So, if until now, those who have some power to manipulate information, reken turn the optics of the event in their favor, Lal's deficient spin doctors tend to behave as if it does not exist.

To some extent it seems like they have succeeded. Major televisions have deleted this news from their news editions. In the last two days, the 21:00 shows have explored other topics. The strange thing is that in order to hide the plight of Veliaj, some have been forced to deal with the denunciation of the Prime Minister's brother for a long time. So when it comes down to it: the boss can be touched, but his first subordinate never.

This shameful submission, of all those screens that use public frequencies, to advertise the planting of 1 million trees, the reconstructed facades of schools, and that dip their heads like ostriches when their hero is caught with leeks in their hands, is in fact worthless. Just like the banal theft with 5D couldn't last long, this strategy can't be successful either. I got a first indication of this from the Lapsi.al website, whose data I can check at any time. The news about the directors of the municipality and about the behavior of Erion Veliaj had a readability four to five times greater than normal. Not that we had done anything special in our editorial office, but they simply reported on a topic that the majority was forbidden to do.

The same thing resulted from a comparative view on YouTube. For example, Klodiana Lala's "On Target" show, which was bravely aired in the showcase of Veliist propaganda, on News 24, the viewership figures for one day were equal to those of the investigations into the murder or disappearance of the most famous criminals. This is confirmed by the few other colleagues who have "had the courage" to address this topic. So the attempt to bury it has created the opposite effect, it has increased the need for the event.

Here the strategy sponsored by Erion Veliaj turns out to be doubly naive and idiotic. The first because he has unwittingly aroused curiosity about the deeds of his close people. And the second, the most important, since with this line, the mayor of Tirana is turning into the first accuser of himself. Although on the one hand Erion Veliaj issues statements that he has expelled from the organization those who are behind bars today, and even proposes to strip him of the right to perform public functions in the future, behaving as if this scandal does not exist, he shows that burn the fly under the hood. By lobbying television stations to do his own propaganda to eliminate this news, he has already adopted a guilty attitude. And the more Top Channel, Klan, ABC and News 24 are silent about the exploits of the directors of 5D, the more the suspicions that Veliaj was connected to their thefts increase./ CNA