Shkodra MP, Marjana Koçeku, has reacted after the debate that engulfed the network over her articulation not in the standard language, but in the Geg dialect in Parliament.
Through a reaction on social media, Koçek fanatically defends her communication in Gheg and considers it as standard as speaking in the standard language.
Koçek also emphasizes her pride in the Gheg language she speaks when she says that "I would rather sit on that little fence than go and chew on the asphalt of Tirana's boulevard."
"I see that there is a storm brewing for nothing over my statement about why I refuse to speak the standard language. I can tell you that the standard is the Ghegnish language. Even if they give me mountains in one hand and the seas in the other, even if time itself forgives me, I will not give up my Ghegnish language. Maybe someone can call me fanatical or backward or anachronistic, but at the same time I am also a romantic, of my language. You, with your Facebook comments, are asking me to eat my words, it seems to me that you are telling me to eat the pebbles of the river where I grew up, the stones of my tower that my grandfather carried on his back for days, to eat my own ancestors. I cannot do this. I would rather sit on that little fence of mine than go and "chews the asphalt of Tirana's boulevard," writes Koçeku.