A crushing loss

2025-05-08 16:07:00, Editorial CNA

A crushing loss

The prediction must be made before the elections are held and perhaps many readers, well-wishers, democrats, socialists, some will rub their bellies and some will be upset, some will throw a fit for this point of view that in fact must necessarily be thrown before the elections to show the truth of everything that has been seen in this electoral campaign.

There is no question that it was a different campaign.

There was no confrontation with the candidates. Sali Berisha tried to do everything and with the support of the Americans. Edi Rama turned his campaign into joy, into joy, into a riot. In recent days he has also started reporting some balance. He has the same style. Perhaps he has now gotten the hang of the fact that everyone is following him.

The results could be so devastating that our prime minister finally believed that Albanians love him more than anyone else and there is no second and irreplaceable person like him. God willing, something happens to Edi Rama that makes him relinquish power on his own, because things will only get worse.

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THE OPPOSITION CANNOT FIND COMMISSIONERS

In fact, it is painful when you see that the opposition cannot find commissioners. We are not mentioning the districts, we are not writing them, so as not to have a negative effect on the DP, so that no one claims that they do this because they have this information or support such and such a candidate.

There are some districts where the DP is shamefully unable to find commissioners, which it did not lack even in the dark year of 1997.

And, this is not only in areas that were once socialist bastions or where they win heavily, but also in areas where Democrats are expected to get some results, to make a difference.

It is painful and the loss seems to be stinging, because at the moment when in the last 48 hours of the campaign you see that there are dozens or hundreds of people who refuse to go to commissioners and abandon a task they did yesterday, because they believe that the opposition cannot win, the DP cannot win.

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On the other hand, it is not their betrayal , but this shows an organized disorganization, a destruction in the genesis of the structures. It is very painful, it is very poignant, as we mentioned above, it is unimaginable, that after three mandates of Edi Rama, the latter would run, not for a fourth mandate, but precisely to go to his strategy, Albania 2030, which also includes his 5th mandate.

It seems clear that from this alarming moment that the opposition has problems with commissioners, we are no longer talking about observers or support groups, etc.

There seems to be an unconditional surrender beyond the facade above or what Berisha himself is doing that is to be praised. Everything below seems shattered.

A "dead" army, which has an 81-year-old general with strength and energy, and a rotten, abandoned structure that gives no hope, that refuses to even go to committees, which means that perhaps to some extent it does not exist.

DEADLY LOSS

A crushing defeat for Albania's evil for a very simple reason: Edi Rama's irresistibility will be even greater than today's.

But, we better warn this opposition that the pain of these elections will not be simply and only its loss, it will not be simply and only Rama's victory, European or non-European passport, but it is an existential issue of the Albanian state, of the future of Albania, due to the fact that we will emerge with a ruined opposition that may apparently receive even fewer mandates than in 2021. / CNA