Prime Minister Edi Rama is facing a wave of protests, now in their fourth week, as thousands of citizens demand his resignation. The citizen protests began after an incident in Zvërnec, but soon included thousands of people who have 'torn up' their contract with the Prime Minister and are demanding his removal.
The wave of protests has spread not only to some of the cities in Albania, but also to European capitals and beyond, where Albanian communities live and work. In recent days, several hundred Albanians living in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France have joined the wave of protests in Tirana, while the Prime Minister has chosen the path of irony, attack, and accusations against citizens who are developing one of the strongest resistances in Edi Rama's entire governmental career.
And in the context of the irony, Rama has published on social networks, images from the 'Martyrs of the Nation' boulevard, after the protesters have left. From the images broadcast on the social network, the garbage left on the boulevard is visible, which has begun to be cleaned by the cleaning and greening workers of the Municipality of Tirana.
Plastic bottles, paper, and a flamingo left on the sidewalk are part of the video released by Rama, as he mocks the protesters for polluting themselves.
" A night in the capital, as the final metaphor of a protest that began for environmental protection and ended with self-pollution...", Rama writes.
The Prime Minister has so far rejected the protesters' demand to resign, while accusing countries unfriendly to Albania, or groups linked to them, of being involved in the protests against him. As if to show that he is still strong and in office, Rama has also ironized the protesters' chants "Edi Rama has been taken."
" To give this a revolutionary pathos, the refrain starts right there, "Edi Rama is finished." The thing is, the evening is gone and the morning is gone, there's no one there because the square opens in the evening, while I'm here, we're here."
Tomorrow comes, the years pass, the prophecy continues, because even if it doesn't come true, it goes viral and here we are today. For decades we have fought for freedom of expression, rightly so, without it there is no democracy, but meanwhile without realizing it we have entered another social hell. An era where the problem is the limitlessness of freedom of distribution.
Today there is no need to censor facts. It is enough to suppress them. This is a new situation of our time, the fact and the lie are two units of the way the algorithm works, which does not ask who is right, but who takes the attention hostage for the longest. It gives impetus to the other and reduces the distribution , "said Rama.
A sa plak i ndyre je ti!
Ik o bunder politike!