Speech of Prime Minister Edi Rama at today’s session in Parliament:
I don’t feel sorry for Blushi, but I feel very sorry for some young people who take the door of the library for the door of his small party. It is written LIBRA on it (Books, in Albanian), but inside there is only a new writer and a very old politician who, just for the sake of a very old chair in the new parliament, has become a character bloated with the air of his own ambition. An invented character, just like in literature, who has just joined us, the poor Albanians, from another planet in order to give the poor power as soon as he abolishes the old parties.
Dear friends of his, you are all here today, this is my friend Beni. He’s exhausted himself in this pulpit reading compositions filled with his inconsolable anger. He’s exhausted himself in trying to create his character in the eyes of those who don’t know him, either because they are very young or they are too tired to decode him.
I have never wanted to dedicate him either time or words, except for that time when I was forced by a parliamentary interpellation where I was called by him, Mr Nardi and Mr Vangjeli.
I’ve though that our friend, a sworn opponent, doesn’t deserve any answer. It’s very simple. He came in this parliament to represent the socialists of Elbasan, and he used his term to commit the banal sin of slandering and throwing mud against their government and the government of all socialists of Albania, even worse than Sali. I’m of the same opinion still to this day.
You don’t deserve any minute of our time and any word of our work. This answer today is directed really to you, before you vacate in a few weeks the seat of the socialist MP of Elbasan which you occupied unfairly, and which you abused at maximum for your own interests. But this is not an answer for you. This is an explanation I’m giving for those who don’t know you or cannot decode you from afar, as I feel compelled to tell them that your latest character, the 219th leader of the 219th Albanian political party in the form of a private car, is not only an old jacket in the wardrobe of this politics of ours, but it has been rolled over more than once in more than 20 years in a row.
Also, I’m giving this answer today also on behalf of all of you, but also as something that is due to our and his friends, who were ministers until last week, and to whom – I learned as I wasn’t there – he addressed from this pulpit one of his cannonades which he thinks are a oratorical genius, but which are actually an exemplary explosion of a characteristic envy.
The old truth, which all of us, his friends of the old party have known since ages, is that he wants so badly to become a minister that he’s willing to be reborn under the skin of a character, created by himself, in order to seem like a new politician in the old book of politics, where he as a protagonist of backrooms and tribunes hasn’t missed since the first day of the first government of Fatos Nano, for 20 years.
Everybody knows that not only you want so badly to become minister, but you’d rather die when you see others become ministers instead of yourself. Saimir Tahiri became minister, but you didn’t. Blendi Klosi became minister, but you didn’t. Ilir Beqja became minister, but you didn’t. Bledi Çuçi became minister, but you didn’t.
You, the unappreciated saviour of Albania. I felt very ashamed when I was told what words you addressed to Blendi Klosi, like a drunk coachman. How could you be a minister of this term of the Socialist Party, you who scored the poorest result of the SP in 12 districts as political leader of the district of Elbasan? Whereas Blendi Klosi led the SP in the district of Durres and got the best result in 23 years of the SP. How could you, an unproven strategist of Albania, become a minister, when as a minister of this party, twice in office at the time of Fatos, did nothing at all? You who were immediately dismissed as Foreign minister by the government of Ilir, because of your unaccountability at work.
How could you, a never discovered reformer of Albania, become a minister when you did nothing at all when Fatos Nano assigned you the duty to lead a very big ministry of local government? Bledi Çuçi, with just two rooms as a ministry and with only three collaborators, did the administrative and territorial reform, a historic breakthrough on our path to make state.
Not to mention Saimir Tahiri. You claimed to be his close friend, to whom you would complain in private because you didn’t become a minister, but in public you stabbed him cold-bloodedly in a way that not even Sali would be capable of.
No wonder! Politics has room even for the media balloons like Beni. The parliament has room even for professional liars like him. Governments have had room also for ministers like him, who wanted just to occupy a seat. But Ben, as time has shown, the SP has many ministers who are much better than you and your new character, with your new small party, and there’s nothing left for you to do but throw the mud of Sali against this party, as your efforts to take down this government from within have proved unsuccessful.
