By Kujtim Morina
On this December 8th, I feel disappointment. This is the jubilee year of that launch, the 35th anniversary, but we have nothing to be proud of. Quite the opposite. We had believed that things would change, in fact the former communists managed to hold on to power, of course sometimes openly and sometimes camouflaged, but they managed to do it. Of course, they had more education and were more privileged by the system, but they were its bearers who also polluted democracy.
We have not managed to build a system in these years. So we do not have a layer of professionals in every field because the mentality that everything is done through the party and not the state has destroyed it. If you live with your sweat and effort, you live with difficulty. If you cling to the party like that thing under your shoes, it is much easier with many favors and privileges. In the early 90s, there was a slight difference between the party man who supports only his own part and the state man who must treat everyone equally, later this difference was almost removed.
The Ottoman-communist mentality that everything is done through connections, factions, bribes, intrigues, is dominant. Real competitions do not exist, if you find a friend, you can win, if you don't find one, you wait in vain.
On this December 8th, I feel disappointment because people are not free, they are stifled, the political elites are the same as they were three decades ago and have badly entangled the system, leaving it without hope for new groups, for parties to start over, to take the best part of these two parties and leave those who have nothing more to give. In democratic countries, elites change every 10-15 years, in Albania they continue for 35 consecutive years, just like the countries of Central Asia, only formally democratic.
I feel disappointed on this December 8th because almost everything has been done so that property does not go to the owner, work to the skilled, and chaos has been created so that the dishonest, the profiteer, the oppressor, etc. win. If we do not establish the foundations of the system, I am afraid that even entering the EU would not solve the problem because even if we were inside, we would again find ourselves in a long transition to reach at least the average standards of EU countries. Now we have much more power than the state, party rule than the law, incompetence than the professional,
