"The beneficiaries will once again be the Socialist Party and the Government", Rama calls on protesters: You are damaging Albania's tourism, image and economy!

2026-06-15 10:37:31Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Edi Rama

Prime Minister Edi Rama reacted again today to the massive protests by citizens demanding his removal.

While saying that he respects the protests, he states that those rallies have also been joined by figures that the head of government calls shallow-minded, who think "the sea has turned sour."

Edi Rama's reaction:

Protesters are free to peacefully protest for whatever they want, however they want, and for however long they want, but without wanting to moralize, I have no choice but to say:

1. This protest no longer has any connection with Sazan or Zvërnec, because all documentation of the process and the entire documented approach of the government clearly show that the government is up to the public interest and international standards and best practices.

2. This protest is damaging Albania's image and the tourist season, feeding the negative and false perception of a country that is environmentally unfriendly, inhospitable to foreign investment, and unsafe for tourists. Hotel cancellations and road blockages herald an economically negative season for many, many families and people who are directly or indirectly linked to the tourism industry value chain.

3. This protest, which reaches and degrades into a crowd led by evil minds and evil hands towards the airport road, blocking thousands of people from their free movement on the streets at night, has within it precisely that great evil of extremism that inspires online bullying and the merciless disruption of the rhythm of life of the majority.

4. Pity for the young men and women who were disappointed by the blind march towards Rinas with the taste of their freedom and independence and in the name of an imaginary revolution, until they realized for themselves what a stupid thing they had done by going behind the scenes infiltrated by destructive forces, inside or outside, who are doing their best to harm Albania as much as possible. I hope they wake up as soon as possible from this chaos and detach themselves an hour earlier from the evil minds and evil hands that have already taken control of the protest.

5. This protest has also exalted many well-known figures in the public sphere. With their shallow minds, they have joined it in various ways, on the boulevard or on social and media channels, with the idea that the sea has turned sour, the government is drowning, a new hour has come for the spoons in their generations.

But if there are any real beneficiaries from this protest, they are only two: the Albanian Government, which will definitely learn the lessons it needs from the honest part of the protest, by properly addressing the legitimate concerns of that part, and the Socialist Party, which, when the fog clears, will severely disappoint all its opponents, emerging bigger and stronger at the center of Albania's political scene.


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