Wollfarth and his trashy report

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The OSCE ambassador, Eugen Wollfarth, reported yesterday in Vienna before the Permanent Council of the organization he represents in Tirana. It was a poorly drafted report, often inaccurate, badly reasoned and unobjective. The ambassador stuck to the same topic, that of the need for political dialog and repeated once again his never-ending appeal for dialog just like an inexhaustible deus ex machina. And that was all! He couldn’t go any further, just like his intelligence.

Whoever decides to look at this report and check how the ambassador shares the blame, will find that opposition is held accountable for virtually everything, because it didn’t play its part in contributing for the reforms. It’s a keen observation that Mr. Wollfarth never forgets to emphasize. But surprisingly he forgets a series of other things very easily. For instance, he fails to mention the most striking feature of recent Albania (call it Wollfarth’s Albania!) such as the control of all institutions by the government, the brutal attacks of the prime minister against all those institutions that are not yet under his thumb; he fails to say that the parliament, even when the opposition was seated in, has been chaired by Topalli on partisan basis, or that the Albanian Public Television is turned to a majority’s bullhorn (it’s a fact that Wollfarth himself likes to show his face there), or that the media is owned mostly by people with government ties or scared by it, and many, many more…

He just mentioned fleetingly that the corruption is not being fought as it must, that the government pays TV channels selectively to advertize its activities, that four people were killed on January 21, but the event is still under investigation. That’s all Wollfarth has to say.

The government people would tell this hunk “Danke schön, mein Herr!” but we, the others, tell him “Geh weg!”