Where did MJAFT go?

Mjaft

17 January 2006

Mjaft! is a non-governmental youth organization, the most popular in the pluralist Albania since 1990. Ilur Kulla asks in �Gazeta Shqiptare� whether the Mjaft! has not acted as a proponent of Prime Minister Berisha�s Democratic Party.

Initially the people loved the voice of protest of this organization, they even joined it sympathetically. But rumours started raising doubts on the possibility of this independent organization being used for political reasons. The Mjaft! protests against Nano and the socialists in power, and the support, even though not direct, of the right, lead by Berisha, raised these doubts.

Were Mjaft! protests against Socialist Government pure civil society expression, asks Kulla.

In fact, the dark shadows on the credibility of Mjaft! grew stronger after Berisha came to power. Not even a critical word against the Berisha government for grave issues. Apparently the news that a minister of the government rewards herself three times in three months, the fact that in a big district not far from Tirana a high official is appointed, who served a term in prison for drugs dealing, or the firing of the civil status administration for political reasons, neither the weird appointments in diplomacy, not even the treatment of the budgets of some main municipalities like the small communes only for political reasons, hasn�t been a reason for Mjaft! to raise its voice.

If this wasn�t enough, it wasn�t disturbing for Mjaft! the licensing of a new air company within a week by the new and young Minister of Transport and Public Works, neither the dismiss of Moikom Zeqo from the National Museum, nor the dismiss of the brother of Igli Tare, one of the personalities everyone is proud of when abroad, nor the appointment of the spouse of the vice PM as the director of the department of finances without passing the exam of the civil administration, and not even the funds and financing of DP during the last electoral campaign, which brought the party to power.

We fairly ask ourselves, what would Erion Veliaj do if Fatos Nano was still in power? Wasn�t he able to find 20 girls dressed like brides for irony on the marriage of the ex Prime Minister? Didn�t he encouraged the students to protest against the lack of electricity? We should not forget that last year we had the biggest possible crisis of the electric power. What about the cancellation of the international tender of energy, did Mjaft! remember to protest, or this time it is Berisha who holds the power, and this is no good reason to protest.

Kindly, the citizen Mjaft! should understand that this long silence is enough for us to understand that Mjaft! was maybe created for just one reason: against Nano and the Socialist Party.