Former Democratic MP Azgan Haklaj supports the civic protest that enters its 18th day today and the youth revolution that demands a change in the political class and the overthrow of the government and Prime Minister Edi Rama. He states that the "Alliance of Towers" must collapse and the New Republic of Albania must be built on top of it.
Describing the old political class as the "Bermuda Triangle", Haklaj, the former candidate of the Euro-Atlantic Party led by Lulzim Basha in the May 11 elections, also demands the overthrow of the other two Rama-Berisha cronies and their ending up behind bars, like Ilir Meta earlier.
"Ilir Meta is behind bars, while the will of the citizens in the squares demands that the two remaining sides of this triangle, Edi Rama and Sali Berisha, face the same legal accountability. However, in the face of this pressure, the system has reacted through a new pragmatic alliance. It is no longer a secret that Edi Rama's government, through its structures, gave the official party seal to Sali Berisha's Rithemelim group," he writes in his long post on social networks.
Haklaj further summarizes the entire situation, underlining his faith in the new justice system, urging the protest to provide support for SPAK to make the sensational arrests of political leaders, while the Supreme Court resolves the created impasse.
"Without wanting to speculate on the reasons for this delay in unveiling the program, one thing is strategically certain: the only appropriate and urgent action that the protest must take is to align itself with and unequivocally support SPAK. This institution is the only legitimate means to definitively destroy the two remaining legs of the Bermuda Triangle, which represent nothing more than the alliance of crime, stolen and donated towers and seals. Faced with this common corrupt front, the protest cannot be satisfied with rejection, but must forge its great and only alliance: the alliance with SPAK and with Euro-Atlantic principles," the former MP says.
Azgan Haklaj's full post:
"THE ALLIANCE OF SEALS AND TOWERS AGAINST THE NEW REPUBLIC:
THE PROTEST MUST SUPPORT SPAK and the HIGH COURT MUST RELEASE THE OPPOSITION FROM THE HOSTAGE!
Today, on the 18th day of resistance and civic revolt, the square in front of the institutions carries with it not only the weight of anger accumulated over the years, but also a major historical crossroads for the country's fate.
As citizens continue to persistently seek a different Albania, this culminating moment serves to coolly analyze the circumstances and political factors that brought us here.
For more than a decade, the Democratic Party of Albania (Euroatlantics Today), under the leadership of Lulzim Basha, has persistently articulated the existence of the so-called "Bermuda Triangle" - a corrupt symbiosis embodied by the Rama-Meta-Berisha trinity.
Time, this infallible judge of historical processes, is proving this political diagnosis point by point.
Today, the landscape has changed dramatically:
Ilir Meta is behind bars, while the will of citizens in the squares demands that the two remaining sides of this triangle, Edi Rama and Sali Berisha, face the same legal accountability.
However, in the face of this pressure, the system has reacted through a new pragmatic alliance.
It is no longer a secret that Edi Rama's government, through its structures, gave the official party seal to Sali Berisha's Rithemelim group.
This act has been openly contested by the Euro-Atlantic Democrats and is currently in the process of recourse in the Supreme Court, which proves that Sali Berisha's Democratic Party today operates on the basis of a false legitimacy, hijacked and baptized in the offices of the socialist government.
This is one more reason why the protest calls the opposition a sellout!
Therefore, it is time to publicly call on the Supreme Court to free the opposition from the hostage-taking of Rama and Berisha, because the case has been in the Court's offices for two years, waiting to be resolved.
The occult relationship between Rama & Berisha reveals what could be called the “Alliance of Seals and Towers.” The Socialist Party and the Democratic Party of Reestablishment, as the two traditional pillars of the Albanian transition, have entered into a silent pact to maintain their monopoly on political and economic power.
This partnership is not fueled by ideologies, but by the financial interests of laundering the money of organized crime through concreting and towers that are being erected at the expense of citizens.
Every time Sali Berisha's formation raises its voice or "denounces" the government, this action is not done to solve the problems of Albanians, but to increase the price of the next bargain in their corrupt collaboration in every sector of the economy.
Faced with this degradation, the platform articulated by Lulzim Basha for the reconstruction of a New Republic remains the only institutional way out.
The need for a new electoral code, the creation of conditions for truly free and equal voting, and the strict vetting of all political figures and MPs constitute the pillars of a system where the law prevails and not the will of the oligarchs.
In this context, unreserved protection and support for the Special Anti-Corruption Structure (SPAK) has been and remains a non-negotiable red line for Euro-Atlantic democrats.
As a body politically and financially invested by our strategic allies, the US and the EU, SPAK has always been considered the only Archimedean lever to dismantle the culture of impunity, even in those moments when its pace may have seemed slow.
Today, in the wave of this resistance, which is now in its 18th day, a discrepancy is noticed between the legitimate revolt and the non-institutional language that is sometimes used in the square.
It is entirely natural that the old political forces (Rama's SP and Berisha's DP), and perhaps other forces, visible or invisible, would try to "capture" and divert this protest, as its true success poses an existential threat to them.
Those who risk the most from the triumph of justice are precisely those who seek to control and dampen its destructive spirit.
The main challenge of the civic movement at this moment remains the lack of a clear platform and a concrete political program that would provide long-term solutions to Albania's structural problems.
Without wishing to speculate on the reasons for this delay in unveiling the program, one thing is strategically certain: the only appropriate and urgent action that the protest should take is to align itself with and unequivocally support SPAK.
This institution is the only legitimate means to finally destroy the two remaining legs of the Bermuda Triangle, which represent nothing more than an alliance of crime, towers, and stolen and donated seals.
Faced with this common corrupt front, the protest cannot be satisfied with rejection, but must forge its greatest and only alliance: the alliance with SPAK and with Euro-Atlantic principles.
Only through this institutional and civic synergy can Albania be saved and the foundations of a New Republic of citizens be laid."
