I, from today (and onwards), am with Edi Rama!

2025-05-12 14:51:00, Opinione Mentor Kikia

Did the SP use its power, infrastructure, and government administration to "make" votes? Definitely yes!
Did the election result have an impact on the patronage machinery, with people who know your insides, who you are, who you are with, where your wife, husband, tribe, and relatives work, where your roof leaks, etc.? Definitely yes!
The opposition can list another 20 reasons for losing the elections...
But...
Did those villagers who have uprooted their trees or abandoned their apple and peach farms, and go work on Greek farms, because they have nowhere to sell their produce here, vote for the SP?
Did those who pour milk on the streets vote for the SP, because the market has been invaded by milk coming from Serbia?
Did those who protest, throwing tomatoes and cucumbers on the streets, because their produce is not sold here, vote for the SP?
Did those "poor" pensioners, who wait in long lines for a reward and make us pity them, vote for the SP?
Did thousands of elderly people who are eagerly waiting for their children's money from abroad to buy medicine and pay for the electricity, vote for the SP?
Did those parents who have been left alone in their homes where the voices of their children have not been heard for years, vote for the SP?

Did those who wander through hospital doors without medicine and cry in front of cameras that they are dying because they cannot even undergo chemotherapy vote for
the SP? Did hundreds of thousands of people who fill their car tanks every day with fuel that costs more than in Germany, Italy, France, etc.
vote for the SP? Did those who revolt online, how many times do they have to pay a fee when they cross roads built with their taxes, vote for the SP?

Did thousands and thousands of others vote for the SP, who, every time they read and hear news about the hundreds of millions of euros of highways, tunnels, floating TECs, sterilization concessions, incinerators, strategic investors..., so every time they hear about these, they curse and curse: Don't get your fill, don't eat them...

Did they vote for him when they read news about SPAK arrests, ministers, deputies and other officials saying: Inshallah, drag your feet. Go there, all of you who steal from us…

I know you're going to say: Who should we vote for? Bring Berisha back? That's right. I don't support Berisha's return either. But the basket had more than two products this time.
Becoming a party to the government is a comfortable and profitable thing in this country.

I have chosen to be a critical voice, regardless of who has been in power. Because I think that being critical serves the country, society and democracy more. But why should I, or others like me, hold the government accountable for farmers, pensioners, the lack of medicine, corruption, high taxes, fuel prices and other problems that directly affect people, when they themselves are not worried? They even seem happy.

So I have decided to respect the decision of the "sovereign". This is democracy./CNA