On September 11, the Socialists will gather in the Assembly to introduce the “Rama 4” government. The announcement has come officially from the Secretary General, Blendi Klosi, who with the tone of a routine chronicler confirmed the time, place and agenda. The Assembly starts at 09:30, at the Xibraku complex in Elbasan, where the Socialists will reveal, amidst applause and frozen smiles, who the new ministers will be.
But here's where the irony begins: the agenda is written with academic precision. First, the opening of the meeting, then the speech of the chairman Edi Rama – an unchanging ritual. Then, as if to create the illusion of internal democracy, item 3 appears: “Thoughts, questions and discussions.” In theory, a golden space for debate. In practice? A long pause in silence. Because, as the members themselves have learned, even those who are appointed ministers learn their fate “live” in the hall, together with the public.
Questions and discussions? For what? For ministers who have just been appointed without asking anyone? Or for an agenda that seems more like a preface to a monologue than an agenda for discussions? The sarcasm is that the socialists convene the Assembly as if it were an internal parliament, but in the end it is just a stage where the Prime Minister recites, while the others play obedient extras.
Thus, on September 11, the new government is expected to be learned. Not from discussions, not from questions, but from the only word that carries weight in that hall: that of Edi Rama. And after it, the “Miscellaneous” item on the agenda will remain simply a metaphor for everything that is never said.
