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Berisha: Rama treated the environment like loot, destroyed parks and protected areas

Politiko 2026-06-17 11:44:56

Berisha: Rama treated the environment like loot, destroyed parks and protected

The opposition leader accuses the government of damaging national parks and destroying the country's natural heritage.

In a meeting with Democrats and representatives of the Department of Education, the leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, declared that the party he leads has been on the front lines of environmental protection, opposing, according to him, projects and interventions that have damaged the country's natural resources.

Berisha described Prime Minister Edi Rama as "a true Nero for the environment," accusing him of allowing serious damage to protected areas during his years in government.

According to him, one of the most positive aspects of the civic protest is the massive participation of young people in protecting the environment, which, according to Berisha, indicates an increase in awareness of the importance of nature and biodiversity.

The democratic leader cited as examples the Dajti National Park, the Shëngjergji Park, and the forest areas of Leskovik, which he claimed have been damaged by the uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources.

PART OF SPEAK

But every democrat should know, remember that we have stood with all our potential at a time when no one has stood except us on environmental issues.
If this protest has a miracle, there is a real miracle in its environmental dimension. When you see these young people, these tens of thousands of young people protesting on environmental issues, what it means is that in their conscience the environment, which is life in reality, has a central role, and this is an extremely positive development for the country and for the nation.
The truth is that, absolutely, in all cases, we have respected not only national law, but also international law on the environment.
The issue of the environment, as we tell the truth, and the issue of human rights, and the issue of voting, are as national as they are international.
Edi Rama has been a true Nero for the environment. Look 15-20 kilometers here in Dajti Park, how they have paved the mountain... they have paved it in massive quarries by Edi Rama's oligarchs. Dajti is a national park. You cannot take a single stone in accordance with the laws of the country.
But the law for Rama and his oligarchs does not exist, because he could not extract stones from elsewhere if he needed the stones, but he had to strip the slope of Dajti and disfigure it in this way.
Look at Shëngjergji Park. National park. How Taulant Balla did it to his lumberjacks. A true hero, a journalist. I will not forget that he went after them and that the lumberjacks and the lumber mafia threatened him with his life. Because they had protection and Balla was a shareholder.
Look at Leskovik Park, how entire forests were turned into charcoal.
But above all, Butrint Park was bitten. I don't know if you've visited it or not, but Butrint is one of the greatest wonders, not only archaeological, but archaeological and natural. It is a rare natural wonder, in its biodiversity, in its landscape.
And I tell you, dear friends, absolutely during the eight years the only intervention has been the widening of the road due to the increase in the flow of tourists. No other intervention. It was preserved intact.
It is a unique miracle that must be passed on from generation to generation. It must be inherited by the Albanians who come.
He came, the first act, separated the natural park from the archaeological park. This is all that Edi Rama wanted.
We opposed it with all our might, we opposed it in the strongest way, we opposed the law.
The Democratic Party organized a series of walking tables. We opposed everything.
What came out of it? The government's constructions at the Monastery Bay and a series of other interventions in a park that each generation had the main task of maintaining and passing on to the next generation emerged.
And, in fact, here serious problems were created with the established non-existent models and in contradiction with the Constitution of the country, because there a board was created where the state, the number one responsible for the protection and preservation of cultural heritage, accepted the position of a minority.
And imagine now, a member of the board is a Mrs. Margariti, who may now be an immigrant in another country and the park is in the hands of others only because Edi Rama definitely wanted to separate the urban part, that is, to separate the city of Butrint from the natural part of the park.