Prime Minister Edi Rama, from the meeting of the Socialist Party parliamentary group, reacted to the massive protests demanding his resignation.
He said that a channel of anger has been unleashed against him and the SP.
Rama: The cyclone of these 20 days is not interesting for what it says about the governance of Albania. If this story had happened 10 years ago, there would have been supporters, quarrels and opponents, but it would have remained here within our borders. Despite the involvement of the Americans, or the Israelis who were involved and were not part of it at all. Whereas today, 10 years later, within 48 hours the violent degradation of a vulgar quarrel between a protester and private police officers became the object of attack. Not that the world woke up alarmed about the fate of the flamingos. If it were up to the world, Narta could return to the way it was 10 years ago, where the bullets of wild animals awaited them. Like in a movie, the boulevard, matched that frightening army against us. My mind was strongly deceived that the global tent of this protest would perform the miracle that my Luli's local tent did not. And so with the beak of a single bird, two old scores would be settled, the wider world would shame Trump at the Battle of Narta, exactly 2073 years after the Battle of Palas where Caesar shamed Pompey, while the deafening army of influencers, followers, analysts, idealists, opinionators, haters and digital mercenaries made available by Albania's enemies or its fierce competitors in the tourism industry would save Albania from me, on behalf of the lobsters of the visible and invisible opposition... from the sycophants and the ballybullies to the airport block revolutionaries to the rusty spoons of our large family.
With the similar surprise of an accident, millions of people who do not know where Zvërnec is, know what was needed there. Not because they love Albania, but in the symbol of a bird they found the release valve of a channel. A channel of anger was opened against me and you, against the SP. This new time, when there is a global beating, transports lies and not facts. A development project for Albania became part of a war that does not have our country as its object in a few days. Albania became the bird, we found ourselves in the middle of it. We must read this history correctly, for what comes next. Because this is just the beginning. We can only do what is done to understand politics today. Once in a while it is good to step away from it a little and open the history books.
