Elisa Spiropali responded through a social media post, criticizing the internal structure of the Socialist Party. In her post, the socialist writes that some ministers and state agencies no longer respond to law and duty, but to orders, and that they no longer answer to procedure. They are advising me to stay silent. In the same way used in these cases: stay comfortable, don’t make noise, they will attack you, you can’t handle it. I understand this “advice.” It is practical. Even wise in a narrow, mediocre, wretched sense. But it is precisely this kind of “wisdom” that has built the climate we find ourselves in today. The problem is not an individual, a conflict, a no-confidence vote in Parliament, 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 spaces for decision-making, but instruments of pressure. Where decisions are not made collectively, but separately. Where the law is interpreted according to the needs of the moment, and not according to visionary principles. 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 significant, even decisive ones. There comes a time when, at a certain point, institutions begin to function as extensions of the will of a few people. Some ministers and state agencies no longer respond to law and duty, but to orders. They do not answer to procedure, but to the clan. And at this point, every business, every media outlet, every individual understands that they are no longer facing a state, but a soulless 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 with dark money, begin to brutally attack even family members, in their jobs, then it is clearly understood that the boundaries have been crossed, and that this is no longer about politics. I have nothing to hide. Precisely for this reason, these attacks do not frighten me. On the contrary, they make me even clearer about what must be said and done. I have refused and I refuse this model. This is the model that should not be part of the Socialist Party: The rejection of a reality where public institutions with personal faces are used as hatchets 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 powerful superiors. And parallel to this, another internal deformation has been built. A living party is being replaced by a fossilized structure where everything is filtered through occult appointments. “Directocracy” has become the mode of operation. It has replaced politics with loyalty administration. This is not what the Socialist Party was built for. It is not the model that has given its government legitimacy over the years. For this reason, this cannot be treated as a personal matter. It is not a clash with someone. It is a disagreement with a mode of operation that is becoming the norm. I am not afraid of attacks. I have lived and live among the immortal ranks of Lasgush; “The soul-tar that gnaws at me, are dogs that don’t bite me.” Not because I am untouchable, but because if I were afraid, I would have chosen silence much earlier. Silence is always the easiest option in these situations. The trouble is that this model does not only produce injustice. It produces alienation. It drives people away from politics, from faith, from themselves, from the country. It makes life difficult, not because of a lack of opportunities, but because of control over them. And if this continues, we will no longer have a political debate about how the country is governed, but a harsh, ugly, and deforming lack of institutional accountability. For me, this is not simply a personal matter. It is an obligation to say that we must do much better. Not me, but Time demands it. The important distinction that must be made clear 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.