In Albania, populism has failed because it did not have the proper social base to be successful. This is what the lecturers Dritan Hoti and Alban Daci expressed in the A2 CNN Diary, who analyzed the populism of Albanian and regional leaders.
"We haven't had the realism of the properly functioning state of law. The populism of Berisha and Rama did not have strong ideological forms, it was a movement at bucolic, rural and exciting political levels", said Hoti.
In most cases the leaders are simply whistleblowers. Now we have attempts but without a leader, they want to invent a new form. We also put the population in crisis".
According to Daci, Rama has come in the form of populism within the left and continues to eliminate the SP every day, suffocating others before they become his rivals.
"Populism does not succeed in Albania because the biggest demagogue and populist is Rama himself, who is in power and has strong mechanisms to keep the establishment in Albania. Rama has come as a form of population within the left and continues to eliminate SP every day, serving the personal population. It does not represent a political philosophy, but a name, behavior and personal protagonism, he drowns others before becoming his rival".
For Hoti, Prime Minister Rama is a complex leader with shades of populism and a lack of training, while Berisha, according to him, is a manipulative populist leader.
"Berisha is called a manipulative populist leader for his own political reasons, the Albanian leader does not have a populist stance and a populist platform like in the West. Rama is complex, with shades of populism, exhibitionism and a kind of manipulative talent and lack of substance in the formation".
For lecturer Daci, populist leaders come from the reality of personal frustration, with feelings of inferiority and with the sole aim of coming to power to take revenge.
"Populist leaders come from the reality of personal life frustration, with strong feelings of inferiority, with stories of bullying and unrealized dreams, and they have only one objective to become someone who wants power for revenge."
In the same way, he spoke about the leader of the extreme right in Italy, Giorgia Meloni.
"Meloni worked as a baby-sitter, did not finish higher education, was part of the fascist youth but not of the fascist family legacy. She has done everything to become part of the extreme right, but if she wasn't, she would be working in a travel or translation agency." (A2 Televizion)
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