TIRANA – Like never before a frustrated Edi Rama has told some foreign ambassadors to Tirana not to warn Albanian leaders that they are being followed if they keep their word or not.
“I do not like it and this sentence is for every person in this country,” Prime Minister Rama, who is also head of the ruling Socialist Party (SP), declared in Thursday’s plenary session of Parliament which adopted majority’s constitutional changes short of the consensus of the opposition political parties.
“The parliament is sovereign, the government is sovereign and their power is also sovereign and it is up to Albania to choose for the change to the Constitution and the electoral system without sharing this issue with anyone else,” said Rama targeting US Ambassador Yuri Kim and EU Delegation Head Luigi Soreca.
“It is not the responsibility of the American ambassador, the EU ambassador, Washington, or Paris that we have been searching for the solution of our problems in English for 30 years. It is not their responsibility, so they deserve respect, but when I hear the American ambassador say that we will follow the political leaders whether or not they keep the word, I do not like it,” said Rama. “This vote is a vote of dignity, it is our decision-making fully in line with international standards, fully in line with the need to make Albania a more democratic country,’ PM pointed out.
Turning to his mockery self-style rhetoric Rama said the majority was not denying Luli (DP head Lulzim Basha) and Mona (LSI chairwoman Monika Kryemadhi) the right to unite. “We also do not have any political interest to interfere in that couple. We need that couple to be together and have ‘baba Xhiken’ (father Xhike – President Ilir Meta) together with them,” said Albania’s government head.
He compared the above senior officials with the ‘Gang of Four’. (The Gang of Four was a political faction composed of four Chinese Communist Party officials. They came to prominence during the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) and were later charged with a series of treasonous crimes.)/argumentum.al
