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Thousands of citizens demand his removal, Rama: Influenced by disinformation

Politiko 2026-06-12 18:49:56

Thousands of citizens demand his removal, Rama: Influenced by disinformation
Prime Minister Edi Rama, speaking at an event for the 35th anniversary of the Socialist Party, commented on the protest held in parallel on the boulevard, where thousands of citizens demanded his removal.

Rama has linked the protest to what he called influence from social networks and "disinformation," considering the citizen reaction driven by distorted information about a major strategic investment in the country.

According to him, the protest initially began as a reaction to an act of violence, but was later accompanied by opposition to a project of great economic value.

"A large mass of people rushed to the surface of internet channels... if I were a citizen who gets information from social networks, I would have gone to the boulevard," Rama said, referring, according to him, to the way information circulates on the network.

He added that the investment in question amounts to considerable figures and, according to him, has a major impact on the country's economy, while emphasizing that many of the public perceptions are created by videos and photos that "incite anger."

The prime minister's statements come at a time when a protest is taking place in the center of Tirana demanding the government's resignation, marking a strong clash between the festive atmosphere of the Socialist Party and the dissatisfaction in the streets.

" A large mass of people would emerge rapidly on the surface of the internet channels and a representative community would take possession of the boulevard of Tirana every evening. The protest began with righteous anger over an act of violence and with the unjust demand for the cancellation of a major investment that would significantly affect the economic and social parameters of Albania, injecting at least 4 billion euros into an economy with a total volume of 27 billion euros.

This investment alone is more than 1/7 of our country's total output and two and a half times more than the entire stock of foreign investments in Albania last year. The truth is that even I personally, if I were a citizen who gets informed from social networks, would listen to and see all sorts of half-truths blown up every minute in the whirlpools of channels that have come out of bed with service, as well as all kinds of videos and photos fabricated to feed anger.

Dead pelicans, flamingos on the run, the ravages of nature, skyscrapers over the lagoon and Sazan, the Israeli border sign, I would have gone out on the boulevard terrified by the digital apocalypse. It would have seemed to me too that the evil cooked up behind the people's backs was so terrible that suddenly the whole world woke up as if from a nightmare and joined channel by channel, screen by screen and continent to save my small homeland from a disastrous investment for green life, and a grave for the future of Albania.

The cancellation of a criminal project that was trumpeted with screaming notes, as a pardon of a public land in a protected area would seem to me the least that should have happened. These sources of environmental energy combined with the bitter feeling of being violated by the arrogance of those who exercise a power, however small, while ignoring the troubles and interests of the people are more than enough to take to the streets, but the truth is that the difference between me and anyone in that community of protesters who belong to this category is not as it seems from the boulevard. On the contrary, I think the same about the graces of Albanian nature, the importance of the environment and the lives of the inhabitants of the earth.

"Since I stepped into the first office of the state as Minister of Culture until today, I have done everything I could against dirt and for cleanliness. Many of those who are on the boulevard or who support me on social networks are too young to remember the Tirana of 25 years ago when we took over the leadership of a capital that had more trees cut down than planted. I tell them today that 90% of the trees they see in Tirana were planted by you together with some others who were here at the time when as mayor I left office, leaving behind 55 thousand roots of trees and decorative shrubs planted," said Rama.

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