After Taulant Balla, Prime Minister Edi Rama has also chosen to attack Dritan Goxhaj, the former soldier and former KLA fighter who read the protesters' demands on the 23rd day of the rally in front of the Prime Minister's Office.
Instead of commenting on the demands for the government's resignation, the creation of a caretaker government, or the limitation of the prime minister's mandate to two terms, Rama focused on the figure of Goxhaj, ironizing the protest and referring to the accusations raised earlier by Taulant Balla.
" As the satisfied Migenian pigs of the 'intellectual' segment of the protest said, Iran has nothing to do with it...? " Rama wrote.
The Prime Minister further added that the Socialist Party and his government will emerge victorious from this protest.
" Remember what I told you from the beginning: Two winners will emerge when this protest loses all its fake flamingo feathers, the Socialist Party that will become stronger and our governance that will improve significantly ," he wrote.
But what is striking is that both Rama and Balla have chosen to focus on Dritan Goxhaj, while avoiding the debate on the protesters' demands.
It is also difficult to reduce a protest that has been gathering thousands of citizens in Tirana for 23 days to a single individual. It is not just Dritan Goxhaj or a few activists who are in the square, but thousands of protesters who have articulated concrete political and institutional demands.
For this very reason, the attacks on Goxhaj are being interpreted by protesters as an attempt to avoid debate on the essence of the protest and to shift attention to the characters who take the floor at the podium.
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