Prime Minister Edi Rama has commented on the protests of recent weeks in the capital, attempting to link them to problems of public administration and the process of its transformation, while avoiding addressing accusations of misgovernance and corruption.
Rama emphasized that the administration is in a complex process of change, while citizens, according to him, have the right to be more demanding for better services.
"If in the administration, where all the human resources that have enabled us to make exemplary progress in the negotiation process are located, we have a new quality today, in the state administration we have a very big challenge facing citizens because they have every right to be more demanding and to be treated much better in many cases."
Since we are at a specific, intense moment in our journey as a society, allow me to bring an episode from what we are collecting to properly read the boulevard protest, in that part of it that has its fundamental importance, which are the real concerns of the citizens. What I call the clean and flowing water of the protest, under that black crust that is the noisy and visible part where all the losers and angry people of Albania have gathered. The mother of a friend of mine, he is a little younger than me, she is a grandmother, had come out to protest. Her son tells me that he was alarmed when they told him, because she is of a certain age that in the middle of a crowd of people, the first thing that comes to mind is that she might stumble, fall…
She asks her mother and says: why are you going to protest? She tells her what I believe is the essence of many people's anger with the state administration. She has to go to the polyclinic periodically, like she and others, people go there as early as 05:00 in the morning. They wait for the doctor to come and hope that by being at the front of the line they will have the opportunity for him to see them, because the first doctor does not come on schedule. The second one, does not stay until the end of the schedule, after treating three, four, he leaves... This elderly woman, a grandmother, goes to protest because she is insulted! Easy words in fact, it is humiliation", declared Rama.
His statement, however, is seen in a broader critical context where public service problems, hospital queues and citizen discontent have long been linked to poor governance and the lack of real control over corruption and the functioning of the administration. The recent protests, according to critics, are a direct consequence of these structural failures, which cannot be solved by rhetoric of “continuous reform” alone.
Gjuha dredharale e neperkes. Vete vjedh, ka ndërtuar administrat mafioze dhe i akuzon pastaj,...gjersa rraf popullin e vjedhur.
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