A solidarity protest in support of Albanian students in the Republic of Macedonia will be held on Tuesday in Tirana, following tensions created over the use of the Albanian language in the jurisprudence exam and protests held in Skopje.

Activist Mevlan Ademi and pedagogue Elsa Skenderi, invited to the show "This Week", revealed details about the organization of the protest and the message it aims to convey.

Ademi announced that the march is expected to start from Skanderbeg Square towards the North Macedonian embassy in Tirana.
Meanwhile, Elsa Skënderi emphasized that the protest was born as a civic and student initiative, at a moment when, according to her, politics has chosen silence.

Excerpts from the studio discussion:

Mevlana Ademi: I don't really have many details, I know that there will be a march from Skanderbeg Square to the North Macedonian embassy. The main organizers are the students of Tirana, these are our brothers here, and I hope that they will have the greatest support from their colleagues and those who sympathize with us, who see that we are being denied

Elsa Skenderi: In fact, the initiative was taken by some students of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tirana and from other faculties, and from other universities there will undoubtedly be young people, as well as citizens who can freely join this protest. Our participation becomes especially important at the moment when politics is silent. Then the citizen must, whether they like it or not, raise their voice and show solidarity with these young men and women, who in a way are an inspiration to all of us, for their idealism and purity and for the very clear vision they have for their future and for the rights they should enjoy with them.

Mevlana Ademi: I don't believe it will stop here. I believe that next time when we organize it again in Skopje, they will come back to the students of Tirana. So that we can have a protest in Pristina as well, so that they can get politics back on their feet a little bit, they are having their own electoral problems there, but their brothers in North Macedonia are struggling with their heritage and identity. Maybe these two countries... live in realities different from our reality, but I hope that a little bit of them will understand us and empathize with us, as they have always empathized, and that we can put an end to this problem that we have.