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Marjana Koçeku's open letter to Rama: Resign! Albanians are no longer inspired by you

Politiko 2026-06-23 16:30:10

Marjana Koçeku's open letter to Rama: Resign! Albanians are no

Just a few weeks after leaving the Socialist Party parliamentary group, independent MP Marjana Koçeku has addressed an open letter to Prime Minister Edi Rama, publicly demanding his resignation.

In a long message, Koçeku, who was previously part of the SP parliamentary group, declares that Albanians are no longer inspired by Edi Rama and that the country is facing a deep crisis of confidence in the political class.

Referring also to her experience within the majority, Koçeku claims that a different opinion was not accepted and that the leadership structures of the parliamentary group tried to stifle any critical voice.

At the end of her letter, she calls on the prime minister to perform, in her words, "the last political act with dignity": resignation.

Full letter:

Open Letter
to the Prime Minister Mr. Edi Rama
Mr. Prime Minister,
Today afternoon is expected to be the 24th day of a protest of tens of thousands of citizens gathered in the square, revolted and tired of the indifference, intoxication and delirium of the power of the entire political class of the country.
The people have asked you for a series of points, which you, in addition to avoiding the confrontation and accountability that is yours as the head of the state, are trying to unfairly insult, demean and denigrate them, even though they are exercising their fundamental constitutional right: protest.
The Albanian people have deep feelings of gratitude for the USA and this protest is not against them at all, but against the internal system that has been created over decades on fear, servility and alienation of the Albanian being. A system where, despite the initial illusions that were created in me, I did not find myself, at least not as part of a specific party.
This protest, especially since I became a physical part of it, made me understand even more that Albanians, finally, are considering their homeland as a homeland; they are seeing their country as a livable space, where they should return and not as a land from which they should leave. I admire their resistance, this shows that we have someone to serve!
The Albanian people are trying to move from minority to sovereignty to express their thwarted will and, after so many years, to realize the transition from personal consciousness to collective consciousness, which carries deep and pure within itself all three times of man.
Mr. Prime Minister, the new generation, to which I belong, is not intimidated like the generation of our parents, who often accepted humiliation and were blackmailed by the need to survive. This generation is without complexes and seeks to manifest its energy and freedom without becoming a tool or a shadow of power.
My entry into politics was a decision that took me time to find the courage to take that step, but leaving the formation that you have built and that today is in a deep intoxication of power, took me even longer until I found the courage to realize it.
Albanians are tired and are no longer inspired by you, nor by the old political caste. This has led them to a deep crisis of legitimacy that can hardly be overcome without consequences or concessions.
Constructions, for which citizens were never asked, cast a shadow on both the earth and the sky. The deniers and the acceptors of this country have turned them into a jumble without identity and seem to be pushing each other with their elbows. Therefore, rightly, one no longer believes in the development that you proclaim.
The contempt for the revolt of ordinary people and causes like that of Rrjoll, Zvërnec and many others in time, have built a edifice of dissatisfaction that is difficult to collapse.
For those who ask why I didn't speak up sooner, the answer doesn't take long. The leaders of the group I left behind did not accept different opinions, nor debate, nor moral sensitivity. In fact, they try by all means to stifle even the slightest attempt to be different, or to think freely.
I am convinced that with alienating worldviews, secure realities for the future cannot be built. Therefore, it is time to move from building 3D projects to building a different, more authentic worldview, which this protest is planting and leading best, a worldview where the foreigner is not treated better than your own, a mindset that allows the Albanian to be the master in his own home.
The enemies of our country have almost never been external, as you are trying to portray them, but have mostly been internal, well-hidden, sly and caught up in the madness of power and detachment from reality.
Mr. Prime Minister, a development is good only when it serves its people and when it keeps them in well-being, without being forced to become immigrants in a foreign land and tourists in their own country. Otherwise, this development becomes violent, if it forces you to forget who you are and to whom you belong.
Albanians do not necessarily need the foreign; they need a realism and a development that respects nature, property, our belonging, values ​​and above all a development that does not deny the principle of solidarity with future generations. They need people who represent them with the conscience of tomorrow.
As a member of parliament, I have seen it up close and I am convinced that even a large part of the political elite no longer trusts you, but the courage to confess and to act may take some time.
People can grasp a certain ideology to the extent that it guarantees them an individual perspective and a collective security. Today in Albania, both of these are deeply flawed.
Day after day, Albanians in the square and those who support them from afar are giving the message that they are not a forbidden people and that they no longer accept being forgotten. This protest is a raging river that flows on the skin of history and that no longer accepts being treated as if it is not seen and not felt.
The disagreement between the state and the nation leads to serious violations of morality, to alliances without principles, to blind hedonism and finally to a new peak of evil: the ridicule of Albania. And this pokerism that is being done to our country is leading us blindly through the night towards a collision with an iceberg.
You still have time to stop this. To repeal the clientelist and favoritism laws, to think about the Republic and the Albanian people, who have seen and experienced enough and who now deserve to be respected and protected.
I know that there are many common mistakes that fall within you, but what I also know is that the prime minister is not God's messenger. If the divine never asks for legitimacy, the prime minister asks for it periodically. And if you want legitimacy to be returned to you, then listen to the square. Listen to the voice of your people.
It is not the duty of power to make man happy, its duty is to create the conditions for him to be happy. The protesters are neither libertines nor Jacobins; they are conscientious Albanians who have decided to return to their country, themselves and their dignity.
If I wanted the best for you, I would wish you less power and more nobility. This will only be achieved if you carry out your last political act: that of resignation.
I know that this decision requires moral sensitivity, political nobility and above all patriotism. I hope you find these virtues as soon as possible, so that you can leave the country that the Albanians gave you with dignity. For this, you are still in time.
The square is calling with a voice of eumenides. It is giving the government the opportunity to establish justice. Therefore, as a deputy of the Parliament and as a citizen of the Republic of Albania, I call on you to act in the name of the common good; in the name of what is and not of what you think it is; to reward the Albanians with your resignation.
In the last messages we exchanged, you told me that I would be left alone and without trust and that not even the people of the mountains would respect me anymore. But I am not afraid to walk alone, I am and will remain Marjana of the mountains, and now I have crossed the fence, without return.

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