By Luciano Boçi

There is a new genre in Albanian journalism.

Aferim!

No longer are analyses or truths written, but hymns, dithyrambs, Pindaresque flights of fancy about Rama's government.

This new genre is called LOLOISM.

There is no longer any accountability, no longer any reflection of reality, but simply panegyrics that amaze with the courage and boldness of those who take up the pen and dirty it.

And in one of the many loloisms that circulate with an unbridled algorithm in our media, I read that in the set of Albanian mythological and fabulous figures, alongside Katallani, Kuçedra, Xhindi, Lugat, Qerosi, we have been added the figure of the 'Foreman', alias according to loloism, the Prime Minister, who has fallen into the hands of the desert frog by working (in fact robbing) day and night and doing us every good that Albania has known, and therefore to whom we must accept our allegiance.

Oh my God, what a speechless discovery?!

This 'Krypunëtori', just like in the famous myths and in the famous Loloism, has brought among us happiness, joy, the sun, the moon, the sea, the river, and everything that the hand touches and the eye sees.

Publicity per head of publicity.

The best of the best of the foreman's goodies is the Justice Reform.

Hallelujah!

Yes, it's normal for him, because even the simplest prosecution in the world would have already cracked Rama inside.

And if reform is the crown of governance, then corruption has become its medal.

This is leading us towards the EU according to Loloism.

But the EU doesn't like governments. Even more so individuals.

The EU negotiates with states. The integration process has been an aspiration of Albanians for more than three decades, not the intellectual property of Edi Rama. Moreover, chapters do not close with a selfie in Brussels, but with the rule of law and functioning institutions.

e-Albania, the main heroine, has saved us millions of euros.

Very good!

Now the 'boss' must explain this to the pensioner waiting for medicine, the farmer wandering for subsidies, or the businessperson wandering from one institution to another for a firm.

Digitalization, Mr. 'mastermind', is a tool, not a welfare.

This guy built us a road.

Discovery!!!!

Yes, roads were built. The Romans built roads too. The world builds roads too. The difference is that the Romans did not charge the world for them, and they charge them at prices that even Europe looks at with astonishment. The roads were paid for by the citizens, not by the generosity of the 'master builder'.

The tourists were greeted by the head tourist.

What about the Albanians themselves?!

Albanians are leaving. One comes for a week, the other leaves forever. This is not a victory. It is the greatest paradox of these years.

The foreman is making us energy powerhouses, but in the meantime families and businesses continue to face high costs and uncertainty. Statistics are useful, but they don't pay the bills.

The minimum wage is marked as an achievement of the 'mastermind'.

What about purchasing power? What about inflation? What about the fact that a nominal increase can be undone by prices? The numbers are nice on paper. In the supermarket they are less convincing.

Pensions are the icing on the cake…

Even the author of the loloism admits that they have grown 'a little'. After 13 years in power, even the government's praisers dare not say that pensioners live well.

And then comes the climax of irony.

'The foreman is asking for our allegiance.'

Did they believe?

In 2013, he sought allegiance to Rilindja.

In 2017, he asked for permission to continue.

In 2021, he asked for a besa to finish the work.

In 2025, he seeks allegiance again... to begin what he promised in 2013.

If after four terms you still need trust to fulfill the promises of your first term, you are no longer a boss.

You are now the Lolo of the workers.

Because workers work. They get up early, pay taxes, support their families, fight prices, and try to live with dignity.

Lolo, on the other hand, appears every four years with the same story, only changes the packaging and expects the audience to applaud it once again.

Therefore, the question is not whether we should pledge allegiance again.

The question is how many times can the same promise be sold as a new product?

Because trust is not an open-ended loan. It is a moral contract between the citizen and the government. And when it is broken for 13 years in a row, it no longer requires trust.

It requires oblivion. And oblivion is the raw material with which exhausted powers survive.

Long live loloism!

According to her, those who see land only as space for high-rise buildings or tourist resorts cannot understand the true meaning of the covenant.

"Those who see the land only as a plot for multi-story towers and resorts can hardly understand this concept that for us highlanders is extremely sacred," she writes.

In her post, Koçeku adds that even in cases where people involved in conflicts or crime seek reconciliation, according to tradition, they return to the ancestral tower, the log, or the village church to seek allegiance.

In conclusion, she expresses the position that the connection with the land and nature is the foundation of faith, emphasizing:

"Therefore, people who lose their connection to the land, their place, and nature cannot be trusted!"