From Andi Bushati/Valijevi, as a hypocrisy medal for Rama

2024-08-12 19:21:00, Opinione Andi Bushati

From Andi Bushati/Valijevi, as a hypocrisy medal for Rama

Analyst Andi Bushati

Anyone who has had the patience to read to the end a long status of Edi Rama on Facebook, has probably asked himself the question: How is it possible that this man has a frightening erudition? How does he know every detail and detail?

What was testified by the insistence of the graphomaniac head of government, was related to the controversy that erupted after the wrestler originating from Ossetia, Chermen Valiev, managed to give Albania a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics. Rama had hailed this as the first raising of the red and black flag at the Olympic Games. His opponents were quick to call him a fraud and a hypocrite (read the Lapsi.al article at the link below), claiming that the first medal was won by weightlifter Ymer Pampuri, at the Munich Olympics, in 1972.

In fact, Rama is right about this, but his hypocrisy and deception shine elsewhere. And to understand this, it is enough to carefully read his long text.

Prime Minister Edi Rama

It shows how the former basketball player knows in detail the history of the wrestler who came from the Caucasus. He knows every detail of the origin and arrival in Albania and the race that sports federations make to attract such champions. So far understandable one might say, it is a man's information about the event that is fresh. But the leader's knowledge base goes much deeper. He knows every detail about Ymer Pampur's exploits six decades ago. He knows the organization of the World Weightlifting Championships in 1972 and the rules of the Olympics of that year. He speaks with the confidence of a specialist about the three different styles according to which the weightlifting competition takes place. Shocking or not?

But, after you have recovered from this avalanche of knowledge, the question automatically arises. How is it possible that this man who is informed about the most insignificant recesses of the reborn Olympic Committee, who knows the details of wrestling and the history of weightlifting over half a century, did not know a thing about what is paid, for half of his government, which "ate plums and pears behind his back"? How is it possible that no murmur about Qato and Molla of 5D had reached his ears, when the entire biography of Ymer Pampuri is engraved in his memory? "He hired someone to prepare the text to respond to Berisha - this is how serious prime ministers act" - someone can justify it. But this alibi doesn't hold water either. Because if it were so, it would have been informed when the opposition first denounced the incinerators (it would have sent someone to be informed - and it would not have led the entire SP to the belly of the Elbasan incinerator for the sake of critics. The same logic applies for solidarity, "with a semicolon" with Erion Veliaj to protect the thieves of 5D.

The mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj

So, Edi Rama is not a fraud - as Berisha accuses him - for announcing Albania's first Olympic medal. He is a hypocrite when he claims to know every detail about Chermen Valiev or Ymer Pampuri and nothing about the money he signed for a non-existent incinerator. He comes off as ridiculous when he will make us believe that, as a former sportsman, he knows everything about men's sports competitions, but he has no idea about the details of the half a billion euros from the budget, which he has the duty to take care of.

Both of these stories, the one of Rama who inspects the filigree of the projects, who designs with his own hand the jersey of the winning national team, who draws the motifs of the stadium facade for Casamonti, that is, that of a maniac of details and this one, of a man that ignores the pettiness of the carnage of thievery, cannot stand together. To want to keep them alive together in public means either that you have lost your sense of reality, or that you no longer care about what those who follow you think. These two contradictory fables cannot travel together in parallel.

Their preacher and those around him must choose: either one or the other. And since those who have a hand are difficult to break away from their vice, Edi Rama should at least know how to defeat in public, the vanity of knowing every file in detail.