Now the relations within the Socialist Party have entered a whole new phase. At least, this is what Edi Rama is proving. No one had the slightest doubt, in early September, when Rama “raced” his fourth mandate with 83 MPs, the first move he made was to quickly get rid of the old thorn in his side: Erion Veliaj. The arrogance with which he publicly announced the plan, the servility with which the buffoons of the municipal council were forced to blindly vote for his order, the involvement of the President without any resistance — all of this made the scenario clear. But the saw got stuck on the nail at the Constitutional Court.
Meanwhile, another surprise happened to the deputy prime minister. Today she is under investigation. But if it were a simple technical issue, Rama, with the same brutality as always, would have thrown Mrs. Balluku into his political trash can. Of course, reciting the epitaph as usual: "Let justice do its job, and whoever has a problem with justice should clarify it himself, but without involving the SP."
The problem is that Ms. Balluku did not turn out like the others that Rama has sacrificed with surgical calm: Tahiri, Koka, Bllako, Beqja, Ahmetaj, Veliaj. These always left with the theatrical ceremony of "farewell with tears in their eyes" before justice swallowed them. With Balluku, the formula did not work. And today Rama has two war fronts inside the door: the Veliaj front and the Balluku front. The latter in particular is too much to manage.
Therefore, the strategy has also changed: from war we are returning to “peace”! But only as a survival mechanism towards justice. Rama’s suggestions to the Constitutional Court — that, since it did not dismiss Veliaj, then “it should be released from prison” — prove this sudden turn. Also, the atmosphere that he is building, little by little, to make this slide seem “normal” in public opinion proves this new approach.
And in this tragicomedy, there is always room for the courtiers. The most absurd scene is the last attempt in the Municipal Council: the same people who dismissed Veliaj without even listening to him, today ask… to listen to him. Probably for the municipality's activity during the year. A pure political and human perversion. But for Rama, the burden is worth the rent. Because if SPAK tolerates a "small collaboration", even online, after a few days a second request comes. Then a third. Until normality is restored. And then, naturally, the idea is created in the public that "maybe this one should be released".
This is the soft overthrow of SPAK's authority: no open confrontation, only relativization, appeasement, creation of confusion and psychological fatigue of the public. And this is the new strategy of Rama, who today is at his weakest point in relation to justice, but also the most dangerous, precisely because he is acting with a survival instinct that knows neither moral nor institutional limits.
