On Goethe’s “Faust” the title character, honoured by his people for wanting to free them from the chains of ignorance and poverty, was unsatisfied with the limitations he had for changing the reality. Despite the difficulties, he was determined in his right path. That’s why he was loved and created big expectations. He was the idol and spirit of the abused, until the day when Mephistopheles made a bet with the Lord to test Faust how determined he was not to deflect from his path.

In one of his daily walks with Wagner, a “suffering” dog follows Faust. As an idealist and generous man, he takes the dog at his home. The dog was Mephistopheles himself, who later asked Faust to sign an agreement if he’d like to be together forever. According to the agreement, Mephistopheles promised to serve Faust in this world to help an illuminate the people; in exchange Faust will be Mephistopheles’ servant in the world after death.

After Faust signed the agreement, thinking he was sacrificing his second life, the future, for the sake of the present and the people that adored him, Mephistopheles took him to a bar where he showed him what the “real life” is actually and that the big ideals are just an empty spoon for the silly dreamers.

Later, Mephistopheles took Faust by hand to the bar’s dungeon, where he gave him to drink the elixir of life, so that he could enjoy the most material pleasures and benefits.

This genial fable of Goethe has often come to my mind after the agreement Basha-Rama. Its pragmatism, which accompanied the closure of the cause for free elections and the overthrow of the system that tired this country for 27 years, is one that recalls Mephistopheles elixir.

Unknown remain the real reasons why Basha drank it in the “dungeons” of the Parliament, but one thing is sure now: the benefits, the goods of the real life are guaranteed, who knows for how much longer. The fight now is only for the quantity and quality of the delivery of these “satisfactions of life”. The future in “paradise” was sold and those who believed that “Faust” would build a giant dam to change once and forever this land poisoned by the rogue, find themselves as dazed hens.

The spirit spread for three months by The Tent reduced to a battle of lists and come-and-debate-on-TV-if-you’re-brave-enough challenges. As for the Old Republic, it was re-baptized as the Republic of Wordplays.

The last point of the agreement was a decoy for the “Fausts” who still have dilemmas or still refuse to accept that it all was a bargain-game.

“The parties promise cooperation after the elections to draw the Constitutional Reform, the Electoral Reform, including the use of electronic technology”, it says.

Promise? Who are these parties that are making promises? The ones that only 24 hours before the handshake swore to Albanians that would make the other disappear from political scene as the biggest evil?!

No deadline for these reforms. Zero details on what patterns and principles will be fulfilled.

This mist left deliberately for the core of what made the people dream is making possible that for the first time in the country’s pluralist history the elections day is approaching under an atmosphere of confusion and disappointment. The battle of the radical changes has reduced in a scene where two big ones have put a smaller cockle in the middle and are taking away the fat they helped him add in eight years; to return him at their enormous bellies’ wrinkles.

In such a situation, suddenly, just like a lightning from a clear sky, Koço Kokëdhima appeared with a proposition to the dazed hens-militants, idealists, skeptics, the disappointed and the dilemmatic. He offers an alternative to the voting people against this political class that continues to mock endlessly.

“I ask all the people that are obligated to go to the elections to put a big Z across the voting ballot. A Z that covers the whole ballot. A Z that stands for many names, like Zero (zero), Zuzar (scoundrel), Zullumqar (wrongdoer), Zagar (hound dog), etc. Someone may read it as Zorro. I’d suggest you read as ZGJIDHJA (The Solution – Kokëdhima’s political movement). A full Z on the voting ballot to make it worthless. Let them give a vote of refusal and a vote of protest”, Kokëdhima proclaimed his alternative that apparently the majority of Albanians are considering these days.

I’d add to turn off the phones for the parties’ coordinators, which don’t know how to leave when they get stuck to you like shit to the shoe; to stay indoors, watch a movie with their children or turn the Sunday of June 25 in a relaxing hike.

Kokëdhima proposes a big Z on the parties’ logos in the ballot papers, a Z like Zero, Zuzar (scoundrel), Zullumqar (wrongdoer), Zagar (hound dog) or Zorro. It could be also a big M for Mosmirënjohës (ungrateful), H like Hajdut (thief), K like Kriminelë and Të Korruptuar (criminals and corrupt) or a very big ZH all over the page like Zhdukuni (get lost!).

According to the official figures from the Central Electoral Commission (KQZ), only 47% of the voters took part in the mayoral elections of 2015, or 200 thousand voters less than in the general elections of 2013.

Kokëdhima’s movement, a Z-shaped slap on the ballot paper has been applying for some time now from people, in an unorganized way. Elections after elections, people refuse this political class in their individual ways.

Whether with a Z or ZH on the ballot paper; staying home or taking a walk like in any other day off, they are the majority.

However, after June 25, this slap must be read in the right way, because by all odds it will be a hurricane. When Rama and Basha get reminded for the new Constitution, this “vote” must be included there, in a simple article:

“The elections in which over 50% of electors refuse to vote or damage the voting ballots, are considered as failed and worthless. They do not represent the majority of the people, period!”.

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