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Rama accepts the reality of the protesters, but not the responsibility: I am not your enemy, they are being used

Politiko 2026-06-23 08:58:52

Rama accepts the reality of the protesters, but not the responsibility: I am not

After 24 days of protests that have a clear demand, his removal from power, Edi Rama has chosen to address the protesters with a long letter, where he publicly acknowledges a long list of problems that citizens have been denouncing for years: corruption, the arrogance of the administration, injustices with property, economic and health difficulties.

In a Facebook post, Rama shared a photo of a citizen who protested overnight in front of the Prime Minister's Office. In the text accompanying the photo, the Prime Minister dwells on the problems faced by citizens, but without referring to the role or responsibilities of the government he has led for more than a decade.

"Maybe you're angry because you have a problem of your own. Work problem with the owner who treats you like a robot. He doesn't pay you for overtime. He gives you half of your salary in the black. Health problem in the family. Far away with the sick mother who needs expensive medicine. Property problem with the house in the suburbs that has not yet been legalized or with the land in the village that has not yet been registered...  I am just as angry as you are with the rich owner who thinks that wealth gives him the right to behave like the master of your fate. With the employee or the director who serves him unconditionally, while he doesn't even look at you. I am angry with the arrogance of anyone who exercises their duty to you as power over you. They treat people badly. They despise merit. They stimulate kinship. They promote factions. They ask for money under their breath. Favors ," Rama writes.

The prime minister then shifts his attention to the opposition, the media, influencers, the diaspora, and the protest organizers, whom he accuses of using the anger of citizens for their own interests.

"The influencers, bloggers and celebrities who made you feel like their hero... have also flown away, with the wings of orgasm due to the last night's surge of likes and followers. Those who fell from the horse of power all these years and never saw in themselves but in the horse the reason for their fall, and who found in you the light of lost hopes by lifting you to the sky, are drinking their early morning coffee with their friends. The caravans of the "diaspora" from Kosovo and Tetovo have also fled. They used you, to bring to Tirana with the brutal rudeness of the invading hordes, the political anger of the Sallahans from other parts of our nation", continues Rama.

At the end of the letter, Rama attempts to draw a line between himself and his political opponents, presenting himself as an ally of the protesters and not as the cause of their anger.

"Come to me. Not to applaud me. Not to give up your criticism. Not to vote for me if you don't want to convince yourself, because I am not simply the great evil that they have convinced you that I am, but today I am the only obstacle between this country and you and the great evils that they can do to Albania if the way is opened for them ," Rama concludes.

In essence, in his letter, Rama acknowledges the existence of corruption, nepotism, the arrogance of the administration, and the economic difficulties faced by citizens. However, he does not attribute responsibility for this reality to the government he has led for 13 years, but to those who, according to him, have "filled the minds" of the protesters against him.

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