Berisha: Upon coming to power, Rama started the battle with art and culture, destroyed the National Theater

The leader of the Democrats, Sali Berisha, held a meeting with foreign experts to present the 2025-2029 government program for culture.

Berisha said at the meeting that the Rama government has proven that it is in reality an anti-renaissance for culture and the arts. The chief democrat said that Tirana today is the only capital in the world without a national theater, that has an art gallery converted into a warehouse and where books are taxed.

Berisha stated that Rama, upon coming to power, declared war on art and culture.

"The issue of culture and the arts is a matter of the identity of the nation. It is an issue of vital importance for its present and future."

It has now become known that what came as a renaissance in 2013 has proven to be an anti-renaissance in general, but above all for culture and the arts.

A man who studied art, in one way or another, a failed artist, his reality, who had not opened an exhibition before becoming prime minister, but who had stolen and sold works of art, medieval icons of colossal value, upon coming to power, he began his battle with art, with culture.

He started one of the fiercest battles, a battle in which he destroyed or almost destroyed all the main artistic institutions, except for the Opera House, which has survived to this day. He also got his hands on it.

Today, Tirana is the only capital city in the world without a national theater, at a time when there was a 100-year-old theater.

Today, Tirana is a city that has an art gallery turned into a warehouse, where painters cannot exhibit their works.

Today, children don't have a theater, like they had for decades and decades.

Today, books are taxed in the most ruthless way.

The museum is closed for 'reconstruction' with the sole purpose of stealing 10-12 million euros and building a tower in its courtyard.

Like in no other country in the world, artists made heroic efforts, the greatest efforts to protect the theater, in the longest civic protest ever recorded.

If Albanians read the speech that Edi Rama gave to the Council of Ministers immediately after the destruction of the theater under the direction of the mayor, they will see that he is the real author of the destruction of the National Theater.

The nation was divided over the genius of letters, and he was engaged in a debate with Blendi Fevziu because he had proposed that a more special place of honor be selected for the writer who deserved every honor.

So, I apologize to Helena that she may not like me reminding her of this moment, but Ismaili was a nationwide writer and that speech was an insult to every Albanian.

"A publicist, a researcher, undertook to make a proposal without any malicious intent, but simply an obligation he felt towards the great writer," Berisha declared.