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"The Soviet spirit still exists in the Socialist Party"/ Hasimja with criticism: The opposition should participate in legislation

2025-12-10 10:17:00, Politikë CNA

"The Soviet spirit still exists in the Socialist Party"/ Hasimja with

Political scientist Ermal Hasimja stated today that recent developments show that within the Socialist Party there is still a Soviet spirit of commitment among its top leaders.

Invited to "Syri Tv", Hasimja also shared a comment about the Albanian opposition, which he said should be more present in legislative processes.

According to the political scientist, the best mechanism for a society that identifies problems is to express them through voting.

"I have the impression that in situations like this, people can't get enough. Just as they can't get enough money, they can't get enough votes either. Especially since we have a certain tradition in Albania that...

Just remember that scene in Rama's podcast, where he asks those candidates what percentage you will vote for. It reminded me of the news from the communist era that I actually got to see. When it was said that 300 quintals of corn per hectare were taken and so on, and these commitments of the heads of the cooperatives who said, we will do this, we will do this, this. Stakhanovist style. And people were committed and this kind of spirit apparently still exists in the SP. So, I don't believe that there will be a moment where, where someone inside there will be ashamed of the votes that they can get, or can, or can rob, because getting them is another thing. So I don't believe that there is that kind of moral scruple, let's say.

The mechanism is the only one that exists at this moment, in the short term, it is the work that the opposition does in parliament. Where it proposes laws, where it proposes amendments to laws and so on. This is, or the investigative committees then, which could also be in the case of diaspora votes, we suppose. That is, this is what is done in the short term. In the long term, then the rest is in the hands of society. If you as a society find that there are problems, not only these, but also other problems much bigger than that, it is in your hands to change things by voting. So these are both mechanisms. The opposition, its duty is to participate in the legislative process.

I mean, if you don't participate there, does it help anything, does it solve anything? I mean, at least this kind of instrument I think the opposition should use to the maximum. If you boycott it, you simply leave the doors open for others, but you don't solve anything.

Simply, what is happening is that Albanians are, in a way, accustomed to evil, have accepted it and it is not a big surprise, because in our history we have had it so that we have endured a regime, the most barbaric communist regime that the planet has ever had, perhaps at that historical moment, that now perhaps North Korea surpasses us.

But at least at that moment we had a regime and we have, not only tolerated it, but we have had entire categories, entire people who, opportunistically, have tried to benefit from that kind of regime, or who have supported it. And to this day you can find here and there, small islands or individuals who say that we were better off then during communism. Or even say it in parliament and in television studios that in that time, communism had more good than bad. And not just people.

That is, this shows that we have some real problems in Albanian society, with the relationship we have with evil, with the relationship we have with what is dishonest, unjust, that is bad, in short. So it is not surprising. Of course, this does not apply to the majority of Albanians, it applies to a part. But when it comes to elections, and you see that some people abstain because they lack trust in the entirety of politics. Another part is caught by the clientelist system. That is enough to move the balance. Elections are never won 99 with 1%", - said Hasimja. /CNA





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