Prime Minister Rama is facing the most dangerous protest of his career. Essentially different from previous popular protests, where the one against chemical weapons, or student protests with concrete demands, mainly economic, have stood out. In both cases and in other smaller ones, Rama has negotiated, has let go, has taken steps back, even taking on the disappointment of President Obama's American partners for an unfulfilled promise. Vox Populi, vox Dei (Voice of the people, voice of God) is not just a maxim. It is also a lifeboat at times.

This time, Rama is being shouted a purely political demand to resign. The same as that of the Democratic Party in opposition, but with another meaning, another weight. It comes from an increasingly large community of free citizens without parties, many of whom have "deserted" from the PS-PD political barracks. It comes as a motion of no confidence from the civic agora. Without the pretense of "you go, we come".

Rama has ignored the similar request of the DP. Because he had and has a solid majority. But even knowing that Berisha needed enough to charge his followers and continue the theater of hostility for the public's eyes. Meanwhile, from the flames of Molotov cocktails, Rama has benefited from more tolerance and closure in Brussels for what is going wrong in the governance of Albania.

Meanwhile, the peaceful, spontaneous, sincere protests, with a diverse participation and especially with an impressive presence of young people, have shaken, shocked. They do not count the number of deputies, but the reality of governance. They have put Rama in the middle of many fires. Like other times before.

We are not stopping at the fire that has ignited and fueled itself in the gallop of personalizing power, going significantly beyond the protagonism that the position he holds gives the prime minister.

Let's return to the case of Zvernec, which served as a catalyst for the rise of citizens in revolt. It is unlikely that President Trump's daughter, Ivanka, and her husband, Jared Kushner, whose names have emerged as investors in the four billion euro resort, would be happy to learn that they have been offered a minefield with uncertainties and contradictions regarding ownership. They are being attacked by many media and public and political figures in the US for this affair in Albania. Attacks that point to their unclear position in relation to the promise - the investment on paper, as if they had benefited simply as an intermediary, in the form of influence peddling. This storm in the US has also been helped by Mrs. Kushner herself with her confession in the media of "ownership" as a fait accompli of the island of Sazan and the Zvernec coast opposite.

As if they had discovered them during an expedition, or had the chief of some African tribe from the last century given them as a gift. However, seeing that all this is happening is damaging their reputation and may even have electoral costs for the President, I think they are disappointed with the generous Prime Minister. Let's hope they don't go so far as to curse the day they met.

The same goes for the two Syrian brothers living in Qatar, who present themselves as the investors of the resort. Surely, they were surprised too. What about us, we have an expression in Albania that means whatever we need. On the other hand, it is not without reason that what is being said in Tirana is that Rama is now also incurring the displeasure of former Sorosian friends, who do not forgive his flirtations with Trump's people, his proselytism in this area of ​​relations.

There is dissatisfaction, suspicion and opposition to the Zvernec affair in Brussels and in the capitals of several EU member states. Not only from the Greens, whose indignation at the violation of the environment and biodiversity is a topic of discussion and debate. But also from other political factions that pursue geopolitical concerns in the space of the European continent and beyond.

As a candidate country increasingly close to EU membership, the Albanian government must consider in its relations with third parties outside the continent and the Euro-Atlantic space the framework of interests and standards of the common family. From this point of view, the pirouettes for the needs of the day's politics or even for the strict personal interests of our prime minister, still without becoming an EU member, are seen with great concern. The EU has just been liberated from the Hungarian prime minister, who ate Turkish bread and made cow's milk, as an old popular expression says.
In this complex of slippery relationships, Rama is facing the greatest conundrum of his career: the protest of free citizens demanding his resignation.

There is no point in this conversation. The leadership of the protest, if it exists, is fluid. The people who are coming out every evening on the boulevard have understood that the secret of their power is the compactness as different, without behaving as a political subject. The Prime Minister is investing in vain in the narrative of the protests inspired by Albania's external enemies. That enemy and rival countries are working against Albania, this is beyond belief.

The state pays institutions to protect itself from them. Meanwhile, the protest is the awakening of Albania, the greatest asset of its democracy at this time. The sooner Rama understands this, the better it will be for him. Let's think about it. Meanwhile, the protest is letting the world know the truth about governance in Albania. It is unlikely to stop. But even if he did not do more, Rama can no longer be the ruler who treats the country as his own fiefdom. The protest of the youth quickly overthrew the aging pluralistic solidary caste of the thirty-year-old establishment.

Better days await our country.