Prime Minister Rama responded to the protesters with a five-point statement on why, according to him, the protesters are wrong.
Rama's reaction comes after protesters blocked Rinas Street yesterday evening.
Post by Prime Minister Rama:
Protesters are free to peacefully protest for whatever they want, however they want, and for however long they want, but without wanting to moralize, I have no choice but to say:
1. This protest no longer has any connection to Sazan or Zvërnec, because all documentation of the process and the entire documented approach of the government clearly show that the government is up to the public interest and international standards and best practices.
2. This protest is damaging Albania's image and the tourist season, feeding the negative and false perception of a country that is environmentally unfriendly, inhospitable to foreign investment, and unsafe for tourists. Hotel cancellations and road blockages herald an economically negative season for many, many families and people who are directly or indirectly linked to the tourism industry value chain.
3. This protest, which reaches and degrades into a crowd led by evil minds and evil hands towards the airport road, blocking thousands of people from their free movement on the streets at night, has within it precisely that great evil of extremism that inspires online bullying and the merciless disruption of the rhythm of life of the majority.
4. Pity for the young men and women who were disappointed by the blind march towards Rinas with the taste of their freedom and independence and in the name of an imaginary revolution, until they realized for themselves what a stupid thing they had done by going behind the scenes infiltrated by destructive forces, inside or outside, who are doing their best to harm Albania as much as possible. I hope they wake up as soon as possible from this chaos and detach themselves an hour earlier from the evil minds and evil hands that have already taken control of the protest.
5. This protest has also exalted many well-known figures in the public sphere. With their shallow minds, they have joined it in various ways, on the boulevard or on social and media channels, with the idea that the sea has turned sour, the government is drowning, a new hour has come for the spoons in their generations. But if there are real beneficiaries of this protest, they are only two: the Albanian Government, which will definitely learn the lessons it needs from the honest part of the protest, by properly addressing the legitimate concerns of that part, and the Socialist Party, which when the fog clears will severely disappoint all its opponents, appearing bigger and stronger at the center of Albania's political scene.
