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A sketch for the flamingo revolution

2026-06-10 18:17:33Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA VETON SURROI
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Narrative point for a new maturity of Albanian citizenship

Instead of an article, which would necessarily be too long to be a more in-depth analysis, I am providing a few points that, viewed from a distance, help outline a development that seems to me to be of particular importance in Albania, the entry into the second week of protests initially initiated with the idea of ??a multibillion-dollar luxury tourist project in Zvërnec/Sazan.

1- The movement does not have a traditional party leader and consequently, it does not have a traditional party goal. The goal of this movement is not to replace the current ruling party with the current opposition party.

2- The movement makes the protest in Tirana the same in terms of citizenship as in Stuttgart, Valencia, Copenhagen or Prague. Maintaining the form is not imitation or pretense, it is evidence of the maturity of a citizenship that also has this in the political content of the protest.

3- The movement was initiated with the protection of Zvërnec/Sazani. The symbolism was immediate: Albania of protected areas that are devoured by the state for private interests, private guards that drag citizens into the eyes of the police as a narrative for the privatization of the state, property privatization schemes, schemes for defining strategic development areas... In front of these symbols, the flamingo and its pink color were placed.

4- In public perception, there is no greater contrast than the black of the private security guard who drags the citizen against the long, fragile legs of the flamingo with its own pink color. This contrast is deepening day by day: the protest movement is not about the guards dressed in black, but about the perception of the guard as the last link in a system that has privatized decision-making in their name.

5- The movement is – in its capillary, non-ideological, non-partisan form – against the system. The system they are against is not democracy, but its capture, the transformation of the electoral process into a form of state capture.

6- If this is so, even if in an unconscious form, the movement is against the current social consensus, the transition consensus. In this consensus, throughout this century, political parties, endemic corruption, organized crime, media control or self-censorship have coexisted. The logical conclusion of this consensus is Zvërneci/Sazani.

7- The Flamingo Movement is the second danger for the current government in Albania. The first was the appearance of SPAK, which in the absence of a real opposition, the situation also gave the role of the corrective element of the system. Prime Minister Rama was confronted with SPAK when it knocked very close to his door, that of Deputy Prime Minister Balluku. His argument was that SPAK had entered the space where it should not be, the political one.

The Flamingo Movement now occupies the political space for correcting the system, but this Movement does not see the systemic problem solely in the ruling party.

8- Being against the consensus and being a capillary movement presents a problem for the current government in Albania, as for any other government that does not meet the criteria of a functional democracy. Such movements are not controllable by the government and KM Rama is making mistake after mistake in confronting this movement. He has described them as a product of anti-Albanian interests and has ridiculed them with bullying that resembles sexism. With the arrogance and lack of basic respect with which he speaks to that part of the media that he is close to and which, however, he calls a "cauldron", he spoke to CNN, to oppose the legitimacy of the Movement and its description of reality.

9- KM Rama, in his initial behavior, risks allowing the rapid creation of analogies between himself and President Vu?i?, who is facing a capillary movement against him and which he has labeled a "colored revolution", similar to those that overthrew the Eastern European powers close to President Putin.

10- Albania and Serbia, although with governments that do not meet the criteria of a functional democracy, are states and societies that differ from each other. Prime Minister Rama does not lead a movement built on a long-standing policy of hatred of other peoples, as is the case with President Vu?i?. And the protesters in Tirana should not fear that the “sound cannon” will be used against them, as the protesters in Belgrade did. However, Prime Minister Rama may have chosen the same initial option as President Vu?i?, the calculation that the protesters will tire.

11- Among other unknowns is how long the Flamingo Movement can last, namely the determination of citizens to increase their participation day by day or even just repeat that of the night before. But, if the past ten days are any indication, this is a movement that is not going to disappear anytime soon.

12- At the beginning of the protest, the public discourse included the Trump family, Syrian investors, Qatar, the Emirates, drug clans and conspiracy theories. As the protest continued, everything was being condensed into legible symbols. The Albanian flag, the demand that sovereignty be returned to the citizens and the flamingo as a new symbol of Albanian European citizenship. In front of them, it is no longer an investment, but a system. Therefore, for the protesters, the demand for the prime minister's resignation is not seen only as a change of persons in power, but as the first act of a deeper demand: that Albania be returned to its citizens./ Koha Ditore


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