Albin Kurti; Night of Fear in Mitrovica

Mitrovica did not speak because someone stood on his head until four o'clock in the morning. When it is proclaimed by the one who fears the truth, a victory that will not be won

It says: Baton Haxhiu

We as the team of Albanian Post, and T7 as Exit Pole broadcaster, take responsibility for the deviation of ex-polle in Mitrovica. The mistake is human. It relates to a immediate inconsistencies in voter statements, where some voices were silent, some avoided, and some questioned the question as evidence of political loyalty. That's all the truth. And there's no reason to dramatize.

But what happened next was far greater than error itself. Kosovo's prime minister turned a statistical inaccuracies into political weapons, in the most typical way of power feared by the real measure of opinion. He spoke of conspiracy, of organization, of deliberate error, as if the citizen in Mitrovica had entered a major fraud scheme to hide the victory. In fact, he himself had built the climate where the survey could speak differently.

Because in his Kosovo, the voter is not free to speak. He is discreet, observant, afraid of being spoken in the wrong place. And in that atmosphere, no vote is measured, fear measured. In Mitrovica, that fear emerged statistically visible and not as a lack of professionalism, but as a political consequence. In fact, the prime minister himself, with his leadership, had stayed until four o'clock in Zhabar and Shipol to convince residents under pressure and fear, with that typical way of power mixing influence with humility. It is measured, not free obedience, but pressure, and it lost, not our poll, but free vote.

So the prime minister took a methodological pencil and turned it into a moral victory. He did exactly what he does when he feels the crisis: he invents his enemy to show that there is still battle. He found the easiest man, the survey, the media, the numbers, because he can't find the answer to why people believe with the same enthusiasm.

In the end, the question is why the ext-polli erred in Mitrovica, but why in Mitrovica voters chose not to tell the truth. When a society arrives, it is no longer the problem of pollsters, but the climate that produces silence.

And perhaps here lies the greatest irony: to cover up its crisis, a leader is ready to announce our mistake as his own victory. But the victory that arises in fear of truth is the most certain loss.