"The DASH report is an alarm bell"/ Boçi: The problem is neither the citizens nor the opposition, but Rama

2026-07-28 19:45:00, Politikë CNA

"The DASH report is an alarm bell"/ Boçi: The problem is

Democratic Party MP, Luciano Boçi, has reacted to the latest report published by the US State Department's OSAC structure.

Through a post on social media, Boçi addresses several issues in the report, which, according to him, conveys a direct and unequivocal message.

Boçi states that the report has clearly "diagnosed" that the problem is not the lack of institutions, but the problem lies with Prime Minister Edi Rama.

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The voice of Washington that Tirana cannot silence

The latest report by OSAC, a structure of the US State Department, is a shocking report and not just a document confirming opposition concerns nor a political statement or media presentation.

Let's not forget that it is the official assessment of Albania's most important ally on the state of security, the rule of law and the investment climate in the country. Precisely for this reason, it cannot be relativized, ignored or covered up with propaganda.

The message of the report is direct and unequivocal.

Albania continues to suffer from a culture of impunity.

This is the most serious sentence of the entire document. Because impunity is not just a problem of justice. It is proof that the state does not function equally for everyone, why corruption survives, why crime is organized, why the administration is deformed, and why citizens lose trust in institutions.

The report, while politely acknowledging the work of SPAK and its progress since its establishment, warns that this progress is not enough. According to it, many individuals with political, economic and administrative power continue to evade criminal responsibility.

The law exists, but it does not always reach those with the most power. According to the report, this is not a completed reform, but an unfulfilled reform.

Equally significant is the fact that the report stops short of the protests over Sazan.

It emphasizes that it was not simply a debate about a tourism project. It was the transformation of an environmental conflict into a broad revolt against corruption and the way of governance.

Even more worrying is the way the state response is described. Instead of reducing tensions through dialogue and respecting the right to protest, there were cases where police intervention escalated the situation.

A democratic state does not measure its strength by the number of officers it deploys on the streets, but by its ability to listen to citizens before conflict erupts.

The report becomes even harsher when it talks about organized crime.

The increase in crime, the activity of criminal groups in drug trafficking, money laundering and corruption, as well as the fact that illegal weapons and explosives circulating in Europe originate from or transit through Albania, are not insignificant statistics. They are indicators of a state that has not yet managed to establish full control over its territory, economy and institutions.

And this doesn't just harm security. It harms the economy.

The report clearly states that corruption, lack of transparency in public procurement, weaknesses in the judicial system and legal uncertainty hinder foreign investment. Investors do not invest on promises. They invest on the belief that the contract will be respected, that competition will be fair and that the law will not change according to the interests of the government.

Therefore, the damage of corruption is not measured only by the millions stolen from the budget.

It is also measured by the billions that never come to Albania.

Anyone who reads the OSAC report carefully understands that it is a diagnosis of the Albanian state and government.

And the diagnosis is clear. The problem is not the lack of institutions. The problem is the lack of political will to let them function to the end. The problem is not the lack of laws. The problem is their selective implementation. The problem is not the lack of reforms. The problem is the use of reforms as a facade, while the culture of impunity remains almost intact.

The problem is not the citizen nor the opposition. The problem is Rama.

The OSAC report is not just an alarm bell./CNA