The Prime Minister mocks him with the "marsh owl", Berisha responds with the "shoe-beak" bird

For several days now, Prime Minister Edi Rama and the leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, have been responding at a distance, calling each other bird-like epithets, and in some cases even predatory.

Following the arrest of Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj, Prime Minister Rama mentioned the "swamp owl" to mock the opposition leader.

"Here the cauldron boils with the swamp owl, fanning the possible fires of the past that will all be extinguished, and May 11 will be the end of the history of a swamp with an owl that has taken the Albanian opposition hostage and has hung like a shadow of a curse over its head since 1912," Rama says of Berisha.

On his social network, he has also published some characteristics of the short-eared owl. " The short-eared owl is a nest robber, which is also considered a danger to domestic birds. It lives among reptiles and amphibians, with which it also quenches its hunger. Its body accumulates pesticides and poisons against rodents, which makes it poisonous itself. It is also considered a very hostile species to diversity ," Rama writes.

Meanwhile, today Berisha has articulated for the first time the term "the bird that pecks at shoes" to define the prime minister. According to the DP leader, this bird has the ability to eat its own chicks.

" As for Edi Rama's crocodile tears for Erion Veliaj, it is widely understood that they are crocodile tears. Didn't Rama cut out the photo on his arm when he gave the key to the city to Ali Ahmeti? Didn't he warn that there would be arrests? I told the socialists yesterday: read a little about the shoe-peeking bird. That bird has a characteristic, it eats its own birds. We'll cut it short. The shoe-peeking bird feeds on its own birds ," Berisha said.

The shoebill, unlike the short-eared owl, is not considered a bird of prey, like eagles or vultures that use talons to hunt. However, it is a carnivorous bird, meaning it feeds on other animals, mainly fish, frogs, and sometimes small reptiles.