Prime Minister Edi Rama, has commented on the protests of several weeks in Tirana, has stated that the impression has been created that he may retire from office, but emphasized that the government will continue its mandate.
“I have had many messages, I don’t know for what reason, as before, I left the impression that it occurred to me to resign. I had many messages”, he said at the meeting with the parliamentary group of the Socialist Party.
But despite the messages he received, Rama said that the government will not close its ears to not listen to complaints and criticism, but will never hand over the ‘wheel’.
“A government does not have the right to close its ears, but to listen, I have to listen to everything that is said in that square, and from the first discussions they have been heard. I have to listen to the criticism and the anger. There is one thing that a government can never do if it is there on purpose, it never gives the steering wheel to the noise”said the head of the government.
Rama also commented on the participation of citizens from all over Albania and mocked the calls for a national union in support of the protest, where according to him, they are gathering to save Albania in the name of the Albanians.
“The group has a strange mixture, and it is a mixture, as these digital patriots say, nationwide. People come from Kosovo, Macedonia, from other territories to save Albania in the name of Albanians. They call on the nation to gather here”he said.
Rama: I have had many messages, I don’t know for what reason, as before, I left the impression that it occurred to me to resign. I have had many messages, and more and more, because more and more people are beginning to be enlightened and see that this is something that is neither in heaven nor on earth.
No sane Albanian, even if he has never voted for us, can accept that Tirana becomes a parade territory for a crowd that goes and blocks the airport. No one can accept this anymore. It is impossible.
And of course, the gradual withdrawal of those who went there to take the stage and the remnant of a group where there is a maddening mixture, and it is a mixture, as these digital patriots say, nationwide. People come from Kosovo, Macedonia, from other territories to save Albania in the name of Albanians.
They call on the nation to gather here, while the people who function reasonably, even those in the banks, the well-paid, the most paid by their merit, understand very well that there is something very wrong here. And how I answered whom, because it seemed to me like… But when there are such moments, I am very pleased to remember a detail in Homer.
When Odysseus approaches the sirens and refuses to listen to them. On the contrary, he insists that he listen to them, because only he who listens to them understands how great the temptation is one way or another. But he does another thing, he ties himself very tightly to the ship’s mast, not because he lacks confidence in himself, but because he does not negotiate the destination. And what he himself, in a single moment, could do by throwing him into the water behind the sirens, he stops him with the ropes that tie him to the mast.
He knows that purpose is what got him there and to the end. A government does not have the right to close its ears, but to listen, I must listen to everything that is said in that square, and from the first discussions they have been heard. I have to listen to criticism and anger. There is one thing that a government can never do if it is there on purpose, never hand over the steering wheel to the noise.
