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Famous director writes open letter to Rama: You are a disappointment! We trusted the man who was afraid of power

Politiko 2026-06-06 10:27:23

Famous director writes open letter to Rama: You are a disappointment! We trusted

Renowned director Mevlana Shanaj has addressed Prime Minister Edi Rama with an open and critical letter, recalling their acquaintance since the early 1990s.

In a lengthy post on social media, Shanaj expresses his disappointment with the path that Rama's government has taken. He recounts episodes from the beginning of the prime minister's public engagement, while focusing on accusations of corruption, the crisis of trust in government, and the perception created in public opinion.

"I am not writing a political indictment, but a requiem for a belief," he writes, closing the message with the question: "Why did you disappoint us who trusted you?"

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REQUIEM FOR A FAITH
Edi Rama,
Today I am writing to you not as a political opponent, but as a man who knew you before power became part of your life.
I am writing to you because I feel that between the Edi I knew and the Edi I see today there is a distance that cannot help but make me reflect.
I remember December 1990. You returned from Corfu and went towards Student City, what had become the Mecca of Albanian Freedom. You came from the world of art, from "Reflections", with the conviction that you had to be part of that movement that was changing history.
But the door was not opened for you.
That same night you came to my house. You told me that Gramos Pashko and Arben Imami had proposed that you go to Shkodra to organize the first structures of the Democratic Party. You had not accepted. With that characteristic irony of yours, you said that you were not Vasil Shanto to roam around on a motorbike to create a party.
There was something in that answer that I liked: Your refusal to become anyone's blind soldier.
A short while later, at the big rally in front of the "Qemal Stafa" Stadium, you asked me to intervene so that you could take the floor. The list of speakers was closed. When I finished my speech, I invited you to the front of the crowd.
You spoke.
And at the end you said the sentence that caused a stir at the time:
"He made us red like Russians, he made us yellow like Chinese, he made us black like Albanians. Enver Hitler."
It was one of the strongest statements that had been heard up to that moment. Someone next to me said: "Do you see how radical he is?"
Yes, you were radical. But it was the radicalism of a man who demanded change.
Later I saw you wounded, brutally beaten, and many of us were by your side.
I also saw you when you agreed to become a minister. I remember your concern at that time.
I remember when, locked in a room, overwhelmed by responsibility, you said to me:
“How did I agree to become a minister? Where can I do this job?”
And that is exactly the man we believed.
We didn’t just believe the artist.
We believed the man who seemed to fear power more than he thirsted for it.
When you later rose to the top of Albanian politics, I supported you. I thought and said that Albania needed more emancipation, more spiritual and civic freedom, than provincial moralism.
But the years passed.
And with them, accusations of corruption against ministers, MPs, mayors and senior officials of your government piled up.
Two deputy prime ministers became symbols of a serious crisis of trust. The impression was created that power was becoming increasingly closed in on itself and that political protection was often stronger than public responsibility.
Perhaps some of these perceptions are right, perhaps some are not.
But one thing is certain: they exist.
And when a perception takes hold of the minds of a large part of society, it becomes a political reality.
You only have to see the anger, the distrust, and the public reaction to understand it.
That's why today I'm not writing a political indictment.
I'm writing a requiem for a belief.
Because I knew you when you weren't allowed to speak.
I knew you when you doubted whether you could shoulder the weight of a task.
I knew you when freedom seemed more important than power.
And that's why my question is simple:
Why did you disappoint us?
WE WHO BELIEVE YOU!!!!