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"What have I done to you?", Rama recounts the phone call with the protester, an administration employee: Take my CV and my boss's and...

2026-09-11 19:36:42Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
"What have I done to you?", Rama recounts the phone call with the
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Prime Minister Edi Rama spoke about the protests during an interview with journalist Rudina Xhunga, on the podcast "Flasim".

Rama said that the reactions and dissatisfaction of citizens have pushed him to analyze the changes that have occurred in Albanian society and the increase in expectations towards governance.

The Prime Minister then focused on the statement made after the protests began in the capital, when he said he had even considered resigning.

"Perhaps the moment has come to explain the resignation," said Rama, once again citing as an example the case of a mayor who, despite investments made for a community, was faced with the dissatisfaction of residents.

According to Rama, this should not necessarily be seen as ingratitude, but as a consequence of changing citizens' expectations.

"The more the country moves forward, the more the citizen is inclined to say 'what about this other one?'. Until yesterday, there was a time in Albania when votes were won with pebbles. They would throw pebbles in a neighborhood and people would cast their votes, they would express their gratitude with votes. I have long experienced the time when a road, a school built, a lighting system, was accompanied by applause and big smiles. It is no longer so ," the prime minister said.

Rama admitted that he initially did not understand this change.

"No, I didn't expect it, I didn't understand it right away. I had to start following the signs, analyzing, and there were some moments that helped me a lot to understand ," he said.

The Prime Minister described this phase as the "revolution of high expectations", arguing that improving a service automatically brings new demands from citizens.

“It’s a change of season for Albania ,” Rama said. “It’s called the revolution of high expectations. A city that lives on two hours of water a day, when it starts getting 14 hours of water a day, it wants 24 hours.”

Rama confessed that he had communications with various protesters, citing the case of an administration employee who participated in the protests against the government.

The Prime Minister said he called him to ask what he and the government he leads had done to make this person protest and make harsh calls on social media.

"I had communications with various protesters. For example, an administration employee was protesting. I called the director and said: 'What is this?'. He said: 'He is a serious employee, but at the point of the protest I have nothing to do with him.' I got his number and called him and said: 'I want to know, what have I done to you, what has this government done to you and what are you experiencing that goes on social networks, that seeks terrible ends? '" Rama confessed.

According to the prime minister, the protester responded by saying that it was about freedom of speech, while Rama explained that he was not pressuring him nor was he holding him accountable for participating in the protest.

"He said: 'I'm sorry'. And he said to me: 'No, speech, no, freedom of speech'. 'Things are not a template'. I said: 'I'm not pressuring you, nor asking you to account for why you're protesting. I want to know what the problem is so we can solve it,'" the prime minister said.

"And he said: 'No, just like that, not just like that' and he said to me: 'Let me go, let me go'. Let Edi Rama take me on the phone for 20 minutes. I said: 'Calm down, but let me understand why you are protesting'. If you want to know, he said, take my CV and my boss's and see who the boss should be. Therefore, in this case, everyone is asking for something. Absolutely, all of them together are a mosaic. Absolutely, everyone has the right to ask, but this is a mosaic. But it means that people come out to protest and it is not enough for them to just have a job ," Rama said.


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