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Rama's rhetoric turns: He admits that the protesters have real problems (and the administration is to blame)

2026-06-28 11:32:09Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Rama's rhetoric turns: He admits that the protesters have real problems

After weeks of portraying the protest as manipulated by political interests, organizations, influencers, or even foreign actors, Prime Minister Edi Rama seems to have changed his approach. On his podcast "Flasim", he publicly read the message of a citizen, Amos Mezuraj, who has been wandering from one institution to another for six years to solve the problem of the building damaged by the earthquake.

Rama admitted that, if he were in his place, "he would most likely go to the protest himself," describing the citizen's anger as completely legitimate. According to him, many protesters do not take to the boulevard for ideology or party, but because they are driven by unresolved problems and the administration's failure to respond.

However, the Prime Minister maintained the division he has previously made between protesters and protest organizers. He reiterated that there are individuals, organizations and even actors abroad who, according to him, feed on the anger of citizens and do not want to solve problems, but rather keep the conflict and division alive.

In a way, today's statements constitute the most visible change in Rama's rhetoric since the protests began: from general accusations against the protest, he moved to an admission that a significant portion of the protesters have real reasons to take to the streets and that the responsibility falls on the administration for not providing them with a solution.

Citizen's letter

" Good afternoon, Mr. Prime Minister. I read, like every day, your post today, coming from a citizen of my generation." So, the sender is from the same generation as me.

"It is very clear that a prime minister is evaluated and voted for vision, ideas, ambitions, challenges that unite us as a nation, which directly or indirectly affect our lives. The problem begins when subordinate institutions forget that, while a prime minister has the above duties, they should deal with the daily problems that affect our lives and not benefit from this vision, but work to make the vision tangible for us as well."

We are 12 families who have joined this protest, not all of them present on the boulevard, because we are disappointed that even today we do not have a solution for half of the building that collapsed in the 2019 earthquake, near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We have followed all the paths of the slave, the law and God to seek help from every institution, mini-municipality, municipality, People's Advocate, minister and prime minister, but still today without an answer.

We wrote you a letter last year and immediately after it we were contacted by the Municipality of Tirana, promising us a solution in the presence of the MP. But after the elections, the answers in the letters had nothing to do with the promises in the office, they were no longer waiting for us. They delegated the problem to other institutions due to lack of legal competences; it was back to zero. No one who undertakes not to solve it for us, but at least to take our voice where it needs to be, to follow the problem and keep us in constant contact.

For this we have chosen you, I think we as citizens, directly or indirectly; for six years in a spiral, from one door to the other, we have been putting your name to this problem. Perhaps mistakenly", he says in parentheses, "it has been not a little over six years without an answer and, in the meantime, we see that building permits are being issued for resorts, complexes, palaces. It is good that they come, almost every month, but we ask ourselves: is it so difficult to get a permit for a palace scale? We have to be builders, businessmen to find the channel of communication and then we allude, burdening ourselves and our minds, that this or that builder has been promised there; we do not know what explanation to give to this clash of realities.

And when the mind is poisoned, the feet take you to the boulevard. Why do we have to write letters and SMS to a prime minister, when there are dozens of directors, ministers and municipalities who should have solved our problem in six years? Why should I take time off from work to send this SMS? Why should I go out to protest in the afternoon, when I could be spending time with my children? Why should I wait? Were six years not enough for this state?

These daily, but vital problems, which we have been facing for years, force us to find the culprit in you. Your own administration has a tendency to delegate its incompetence to you, putting us as citizens in front of you as prime minister. Informal answers like: 'Why didn't you take him to court?', 'Since the prime minister promised you a solution, let him give it to you', 'You don't have to come here, it's not my competence, but the government's', 'I won't sign to go to prison because the prime minister will build you the palace where you had it', do nothing but fill your glass of water every day.

I feel sorry for the direct way of communication, but I think it's more honest this way. I'm fine with plans and visions, but we want to live well every day and we want it today. We don't need charity, because we manage our own lives, but we want the state not to be a burden on us. We have the bad feeling that they have taken revenge on us and we will never find a solution. I feel sorry for the concern, but I feel powerless to solve these problems and believe me, this feeling hurts me.

"Thank you. Have a nice day. With respect, Amos Mezuraj ," the citizen writes.

Rama's response

“Now, I want to say it very clearly and very directly: this is the protest that interests me, that also angers me, that motivates me to continue my fight. It is not the protest of pretenders that angers me, nor the protest of pretense. That disgusts me; this angers me. And if I were in your place, dear Amos, after six years of waiting, of doors that open and close, of promises that dissolve, of answers that delegate responsibility to someone else, I would most likely feel the same way; I would most likely feel part of that protest too or I would go to the protest myself. So I do not doubt it for a moment. On the contrary, I feel it, however much you may not believe it. I feel your anger as if it were mine. And your message is here, delivered.

I have a lot of them, because it's the best example of something I've been saying repeatedly these days. Not everyone who joins the protest is there for a reason. There are a lot of people who are not driven to the boulevard by any ideology, or any party, or any abstract anger. They are not driven by likes, nor by followers to lure protesters today who are customers tomorrow and then sell them influencer products. They are not driven by environmentalist beliefs, which are certainly noble, nor by blind nationalist impulses, nor by manipulations or, worse than manipulations, by various missions to manipulate others, but they are driven by a state of distress that, in the end, turns into anger and an anger that turns into an explosion, an injustice that you feel on your back. This is legitimate. You are very right. No one should be forced to write to the prime minister, because the institutions that are paid to address these problems have not done their job. But, on the other hand, I personally follow every message I receive; as you say in your message, you wrote to me a year ago and I took it to the competent authority," Rama said.

The Prime Minister further said that in addition to the fact that the Tirana municipality has been without a mayor for a year, there are also problems with the administration. He emphasized that such problems should not be used by people with interests to divide and create problems.

Rama asks citizens not to "forgive anyone" their plight and, at the same time, not to stop seeking solutions and corrections, expressing their willingness to support them.

" I have absolutely the same concern and I sent the message a year ago to the Municipality of Tirana. Now, we do not have a mayor. We have a municipality that "functions with a defibrillator, with oxygen", with 700 push-ups and 700 cramps. But, beyond the municipality, we definitely have problems with the administration, and when the administration does not bear the burden that belongs to it, then the burden ends up on the soul and on the mind of the citizen, the family, the people who need to receive answers.

But here I want to make an intervention that I do not ask for understanding, but simply ask for everyone to listen. I understand that when the matter comes to a head, the end of patience has come, but, on the other hand, a just cause should not be allowed to become fuel for those who continue to feed this protest, continue to feed this mess, more spiritual than physical, causing damage after damage, not helping to resolve things.

They are people who feed on the problems of others and are people, they are subjects, they are organizations, there are also other actors abroad who feed on the problems of others. Your problem and that of all those like you who go there or who are connected to that thing, is not to "give fuel" to their politics or goals, because they do not seek a solution. They need the solution to never come, because they want to keep alive the anger, the division and the illusion that every wound of a citizen is proof that everything here must be overthrown and Albania must start from scratch. I have the obligation to listen to the person, but not to become hostage to those who speak in your name. I see the protest of honest people, of people who are not "fuel" for the trouble industry, as something very respectable, very understandable and revolting to me; it works for me.

At the same time, I would ask something of all of you who are in this situation: do not forgive your troubles anywhere. Do not forgive the administration and, if you need me, I am here to fight with you, but do not forgive in any way those who want to take things backwards using your troubles. Because solutions never come from people who ignite the fire of anger, but from those who, despite all the shortcomings and mistakes, bear the obligation to "extinguish" every hearth of trouble, standing over it. I do my best. I am very proud of the much that our public administration has achieved and of the way it has transformed compared to the past, but I am extremely bitter and disgusted with what is happening to the administration in certain places and cases. But the solution is not to "blow it up". The solution is to correct it together. The big operations have been done. "The issue here is to continue treating the wounds and to continue treating those spots that have infection ," Rama said.


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