What is Spiropali alluding to when he says 'they are advising me to keep quiet, but these attacks don't scare me'
2026-04-17 10:37:54
TiranaPost
Elisa Spiropali has reacted with a statement expressing concerns about the functioning of institutions and the political climate in the country.
She criticizes the deformation of institutions and the increasing influence of informal structures, describing the situation as problematic and calling for more accountability and change.
Spiropal's reaction:
They're advising me to keep quiet. In the same way that's used in these cases: stay calm, don't make a sound, they'll attack you, you can't do it.
I understand this “advice.” It is practical. Even wise in a narrow, mediocre, petty sense. But it is precisely this kind of “wisdom” that has built the climate we are in today.
The problem is not an individual, a conflict, a non-vote in the Assembly, or a misunderstanding within the government.
The problem is a model that has been gradually installed and that today functions almost without obstacles. A model where institutions are no longer decision-making spaces, but instruments of pressure. Where decisions are not made jointly, but separately. Where the law is interpreted according to the need of the moment, and not according to a visionary principle.
I have seen this transformation up close. It is not something that happens with a single decision. It happens with small tolerances, with reasoned silences, with interventions that initially seem harmless and then turn into important, even decisive, interventions.
There comes a time when, at some point, institutions begin to function as extensions of the will of a few people. Some ministries and state agencies no longer respond to law and duty, but to order. They do not respond to procedure, but to the clan. And at this point, every business, every media, every individual understands that they are no longer facing a state, but facing a heartless machine that can be used against them.
If these mechanisms are used even against those who have public protection, with high state duties, what happens to those who have no voice?
When state structures appointed, promoted, and controlled by the same hand, now informal, preceded by portals paid for with dark money, begin to brutally attack even family members, in their work, then it is clearly understood that the limits have been crossed, and that it is no longer about politics.
I have nothing to hide. That's why these attacks don't scare me. On the contrary, they make me even clearer about what needs to be said and done.
I have rejected and I reject this model. This is the model that should not be part of the Socialist Party: The rejection of the reality where public institutions with a personal face are used as machetes to intimidate, and where maintaining influence does not require performance, but control. Where the honest part of the administration is forced to implement even illegal orders for the interests and pressures of violent and all-powerful superiors.
And in parallel with this, another internal deformation has been built. A living party is being replaced by a fossil structure where everything is filtered through occult appointments. “Directorocracy” has returned to its mode of operation. It has replaced politics with loyal administration.
This is not what the Socialist Party was built for. Nor is it the model that has given legitimacy to its rule over the years.
For this reason, this cannot be treated as a personal issue. It is not a clash with someone. It is a disagreement with a way of operating that is becoming the norm.
I am not afraid of attacks. I have lived and live among the immortal ranks of Lasgushians;
"The dogs that scold me are the ones who don't bite me."
Not because I'm invulnerable, but because if I had been afraid, I would have chosen silence much earlier. Silence is always the easiest option in these situations.
The problem is that this model doesn't just produce injustice. It produces alienation. It alienates people from politics, from faith, from self, from country. It makes life difficult, not because of a lack of opportunities, but because of the control over them.
And if this continues, we will no longer have a political debate about how the country is governed, but a gross, ugly, and deforming lack of institutional accountability.
For me, this is not a purely personal matter. It is an obligation to say that we need to do many things better. Not me, but Time demands it.
The important distinction that needs to be made is not between people. It is between functioning state sectors and abusive personal structures.
The Socialist Party has had and has the necessary energy for improvements and transformation for the benefit of Albania and Albanians.
