Analyst Fatos Lubonja estimates that the civic protest has already created its own internal dynamics, maintaining as a common point the unanimous demand for the government's resignation, but at the same time facing clashes over the representation and direction of the movement.

According to him, in such heterogeneous movements it is natural that, in addition to the common goal, different groups tend to take the lead. Lubonja brought up the history of World War II and the Peza Conference as an example, arguing that the struggle for power within a common front can lead to the exclusion of different voices.
He said he is not against organizing a protest assembly, but stressed that it should aim for representation of all groups and not the dominance of one side over another.

"In a protest with groups with different ideologies and sensitivities, some focused on ecology, others on the welfare state or the free market, everyone must be represented. When a fight is created about who dominates, the idea of ​​exclusion also arises, and I am against this," Lubonja said.

He added that many participants feel unrepresented, but continue to participate in the protest because they are united by the main objective, the removal of Edi Rama's government.
Drawing a historical parallel with the French Revolution, Lubonja said that after achieving the main objective, a race for power could begin within the movement itself.
"Here 'cutting off the king's head' means the departure of Edi Rama. Then the struggle for power begins within the movement, until one group emerges stronger. Therefore, interest groups and representation must be created outside Tirana as well," he said.

Lubonja also focused on government projects, criticizing Prime Minister Edi Rama's statements about the "Mountain Package".
"When Rama says that the Mountain Package will make Albania a Switzerland, I tell him to go see the south and see how it has done it. It will do in the mountains what it has done on the coast. We only need to look at Golem, the south or Darëzeza," he declared.

"When Rama says that the Mountain Package will make Albania a Switzerland, I tell him, go and see the south, how you did it, to understand what Switzerland is aiming for. You will do in the mountains what you did on the coast. It is enough to look at Golem and the south, Darëzeza because we saw it in the "Albanian Files". He wants to give that beautiful nature, public and private property to organized crime to build ugliness, with the firms of some architects"

According to Lubonja, the government aims to transfer natural resources and public and private properties to interests linked to organized crime for developments that, according to him, damage the environment.
In the end, he accused the prime minister of using divisive strategies against the protest.

"Rama has the justice system, the police and organized crime with him, creating a state of looters. He uses divisive methods, amplifies conflicts and tries to present the protest as a minority. How right the protest is, justice must show," Lubonja concluded.

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