Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama criticized the organizers of the protests that took place Sunday evening in Tirana, who, according to him, brought Albanians from Prishtina and Tetovo to the protests, and called the participants “victims of political caravans.”
“The Albanians from North Macedonia are not Albania’s diaspora on foreign territory. Together with the Macedonians, they are a constituent people in their own country. The diaspora are immigrants living in foreign countries, not them, nor the Albanians from Kosovo, who have their own independent state,” Rama wrote in a social media post.
Albania has been facing continuous protests for 22 days, called the Flamingo Revolution, caused by the controversial project to build a luxury tourist complex linked to the company of Jared Kushner, son-in-law of US President Donald Trump.
In addition to Albania, demonstrations were also organized in the Albanian diaspora – in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Australia.
Protesters are demanding the suspension of the project, the repeal of the law on strategic investments and changes to the regulations on protected areas, as well as the resignation of Prime Minister Rama.
