
In this Saturday's "Flasim" podcast, Prime Minister Edi Rama invited lecturer and head of the Department of Journalism at the University of Tirana, Mark Makun.
Asked by Mark Marku that 'what do you want to say to the Albanians for a fourth term', Rama listed the reasons.
Mark Marku: You will appear after a year in the elections, 3 mandates, with its pros and cons. In a long government, some basic problems are burdening, corruption, immigration of new generations. What do you want to say to the Albanians for the fourth mandate? That's how we are good and we continue like that. Or do you mean we will do what we have not done?
Edi Rama: This is how we are and we continue like this, I try never to say it. I say yes, we may not be the best, but there is no one better than us. If I feel satisfied, there is no more motive, so in this respect, I believe and hope that I am not in danger.
It is true that we have problems, as it would be useless to deny them, but we have given this country an opportunity that it has not had before. A justice that acts independently of political power. We have had ministers shot before, but it was with political will and justice was the gun to kill them. We have a very important moment of change, how encouraging and fragile it is, and guaranteeing the integrity of the process is indispensable.
On the other hand, the fight against corruption is not just a fight for justice, but a fight to have a solidarity and capacity on the entire front of the institutions that devotes space to fight it....
In this respect, we have done many positive things.
We need to raise the stake of the fight against corruption much more on the whole front, not just in justice. This is the moment, one of two moments, that makes the position in relation to the fourth term more tempting to me than anything else. In other conditions, if I had the conviction to complete the mosaic that we started with the image of Albania, tourism and raising the level of tourism, maybe I wouldn't have the temptation anymore.