
Former Democratic MP Edmond Spaho, who has long become the Democratic Party's biggest critic, has asked Edi Rama not to resign, following the protests that have erupted in Tirana for almost a month.
According to him, Rama would do the greatest harm to the country if he resigns.
Spaho's post
Edi Rama,
This is not a protest to lick and bite honest girls and boys on the boulevard.
You have done endless harm to this people. In a country with a democratically formed society, you would have left long ago.
The greatest damage you would do to this country is not your past, but if you were to flee from the pressure of this neo-Marxist, Islamist-fundamentalist, anti-Trumpist protest, divisive among Albanians in the region and against Albania's integration into the EU.
Remember that the damage you will do to the country, by leaving it in the hands of those who want to choose the government by lot and political hyenas who are waiting to catch whatever they can, will be such that you will not escape responsibility even when you are no longer in this world.
Since you're talking about sincerity on the boulevard, remember the nightmares of Kadare's character in The Winter of the Great Solitude.
If you give up, don't be surprised that one day your bones may be dragged down the boulevard like in that "reactionary's" dreams.
At the top of the boulevard, some heir to Mark Zavalina will play the violin.
It seems like a sick fantasy, but those who are interested in this country moving forward and not backward will not forgive him if he succumbs to this protest, the aim of which is to set the country back a century.