Before anyone even takes their seat in the new session of the Albanian Parliament, scheduled to have the inaugural meeting next week, the act of demission performed in a careful media savvy way for five elected MPs is making various headlines in the press.
With the exception of the resignation of Mark Marku, who accused the leadership of the opposition for stifling dissent and lacking a vision for wining the others are all from the majority and united in their articulation of “the right moment for leaving”.
In one form or the other, Tom Doshi, Najada Como, Gramoz Ruci and just recently Lefter Koka all expressed in their public declarations or worse social media posts loaded with pathetic emotions and clichés that they felt this was the right moment to leave, wither to serve a greater good, or to make space for youth.
They are all disingenuous and to some extent deceitful. First and foremost reaching such a conclusion requires some form of reflection process which part of these individuals are incapable of. Second it requires time. If they had this feeling then it is perplexing why would they chose to enter a difficult electoral race, serve their party with all their might and then retire so soon.
But ultimately the big lie is indeed their timing message. The right moment for former interior Minister during Communism to leave was thirty years ago. A speaker of the parliament whose name was engraved in the museum of surveillance as part of the frightening architecture of the secret service and interior affairs during the dictatorship did not do Albania any service. No matter his real sins or lack of thereof Gramoz Ruci should have left long ago.
The right time for Najada Como to leave was when as soon as she got the proposal to run for the SP list. She was the Chief of the Infectious Diseases’ hospital, a duty that calls her to resign now, and that should have been the same a few months ago when Covid was still ravaging this country.
The right time for Tom Doshi to leave politics is hard to fathom as he should have never ever been part of it in the first place. A declared non-grata designated person (from the State Department) for corruption, he had a name that instills fear with his capacity to buy votes and influence outcomes.
Which brings us to the last name so far: Lefter Koka, an almost perfect synonym for the LSI corruption clad tenders and potential subject of investigation by the SPAK ( Special Anti-corruption Prosecutor Unit) which denounced his former party with all his might and dived right into the harsh Durres campaign with the sole objective of maximizing Rama votes. What is the right moment to leave for such a rich, powerful, strong, influential man in Durres whose family members are also iron-clad in their strong business and political positions? When a threat appears.
It’s most likely a good thing all of them have resigned. It would have been even better had they spared the public the unbearable hypocrisy of their timing and motif explanation.
