End of political crisis? Hardly so…

TIRANA, March 10 – What is the country’s politics doing on solving the political crisis? Whatever they are doing, for the moment one may clearly say they have agreed, compromised or done nothing.
The two main political groupings – governing Democratic Party of Prime Minister Sali Berisha and main opposition Socialist Party of Tirana Mayor Edi Rama – are discussing in parliamentary commissions on how and what to investigate about the June 28 parliamentary election.
The opposition Socialists, who have 64 seats in parliament (plus an ally making it 65) want a thorough probe of the polls starting with the recount of a considerable number of ballot boxes.
The Democrats, who control 75 seats together with their allies say that is out of question and a recount would mean breaking the laws and violating the constitution.
The Socialist’s have returned to the parliament but the debate they are holding there does not seem to have produced any result on what they have been achieving.
It seems that the probe on the elections is not the first or top issue of the moment taking into consideration its presence or improvidence given during the main news.
But the Socialists insist if elections are not investigated as they say, they may leave the parliament again.
That is not unlikely but they may think it twice to do it again.
Meanwhile they threaten with street protests to achieve their result but Berisha defies that saying he could be present if invited. Protests are a normal democratic tool, he challenges them.
That does not seem that easy for Berisha too.
The prime minister said he would also start a nationwide tour to meet with the people, learn their problems and get help on how to resolve them.
What a good way or a very powerful democratic tool that has resulted in this country.
That is exactly what Rama said and did last year after losing the elections.
For the moment the opposition says they do recognize the election results and the probe they are asking for does not intend to overturn the government but simply to make polls transparent.
On the other hand, they are threatening that unless agreed as they want to they may start street protests asking for the government resignation.
Rama also went to the European Parliament to meet with his supporting leftist parties and lawmakers to ask them press Tirana fully investigate and make the election transparent.
So it is very obvious that the Albanian political parties, that agreed to probe the polls following international pressure from the Council of Europe and the European Union, cannot reach any obvious result without the direct interference from the world.
For the moment no concrete result is seen on the horizon. But one may also note that the impact or interference from the international community is not that touchable as two week ago. So the world is telling Albania go ahead by yourself. You are asking to become a member of the European Union. You are a member of NATO. Almost two decades after the fall of communism you should normally be capable by yourself to resolve issues which affect the whole country.