Why are Albin Kurti and Sali Berisha the same?

Original title: Albin Kurti's 1992 Punishment of Sali Berisha

There is an amazing similarity, amid what happened in the 17 October local elections in Kosovo and what happened in the 26 July 1992 local elections in Albania. Protagonists are today's two allies in Pristina and Tirana: Albin Kurti and Sali Berisha. Only after that can it be understood better what he did to two of us today, leaders who were once <x0 enemy” to death.

Although these two electoral events on both sides of the “limit”, they divide all 29 years, everything looks the same:

Sali Berisha was then in the power agenda, as his DP-led had won just 5 months before the locals, the March 22nd 1992 parliamentary elections with over 60% of the vote. Albin Kurti appeared to be at the top of his political power, as 8 months earlier, he had won the February 14th 2021 parliamentary general elections, with almost 50% of the vote.

Sali Berisha had come to power after he could P The party, Enver Hoxha's old party and Ramiz Alia, taking the old guard of communism out of the political scene. Albin Kurti came to power after defeating the main parties in Kosovo, which were led by former KLA commanders, ousting them from the stage and detecting the arrival of new leaders at the helm of the LDK and the PDK.

Sali Berisha lost shockingly in local elections, rushing back then, only with victory in some of the country's main cities. Albin Kurti lost to Sunday's locals, not winning any municipalities in the first round and comfortingly, with the advantage of the vote taking place for the run-off in Pristina or elsewhere. Sali Berisha lost almost half of the electorate's votes in a very short time, from general elections to local ones, taking only 37.13% of them.

Albin Kurti also in a short time, from “to Valentini” until the second fall, lost almost half of the 40,000 votes he had taken together the “Guxo” of Vjosa Osmani. Just a year after the loss in the 1992 local elections, Sali Berisha arrested and politically imprisoned the then opposition leader, SP Chairman Fatos Nano, insulating him in the Men of Tepelena.

Just weeks before the February 2021 elections in Kosovo, party leaders who are now in opposition to the central governance of “Vetevendosje” have been arrested and located in The Hague.

What is the cause of making these two electoral races in Albania and Kosovo look like two drops of water to each other? Is it just coincidence? Is it an inexplicable in time, within Albanian space in the Balkans? Is it a hard search for the sake of this scripture? Or do all of these have a common point, witnessing that history under similar conditions can even be repeated?

There's a point that makes these two almost identical pictures together, placed in two almost identical frames, which today hang on the same nail. It is the same behaviour in government by Sali Berisha and Albin Kurti. The same way of running their political parties. “binal mode” of exercising power in relation to citizens. The “specified” of the leadership, in relation to political opponents. The same mentality in using the Albanian issue outside the respective borders, for their ambitions and personal interests.

These two leaders make them together like Siamese brothers in the same defeat they suffered in local elections after the triumph in central power, the way of exercising power. They both have in the DNA of their leadership political resurgents, false patriotism, the sheep of popular leaders born to be the fathers of the nation, arrogance, demagogia, lies and insults of Albanians' intelligence to be removed differently than they really are.

Both are leaders who sell their losses as the biggest victories -- a sure sign from the history of this popular culture in the Balkans -- that the political end will be the same. Sali Berisha is today Albin Kurti's ally, for a simple reason, because they consider Edi Rama their common enemy. Another clear sign that even the balance in front of him will be the same!