TIRANA, April 13 /ATA/ Prime Minister and chairman of the Socialist Party, Edi Rama, stated on Sunday that the vote on May 11 for the Socialist Party is the guarantee that individual freedom of citizens and equality before the law will no longer be questioned.
During a meeting in Milan with Albanians residing and working in Italy, Rama stated that “Albania 2030” will be a transformed Albania, a nation with a new position and strength, a member of a larger family of freedoms, rights, and opportunities that it currently lacks.
Albania today, he continued, is completely different from what it was when the Socialist Party took office, in every aspect—except for the swamp of the opposition and the media surrounding it, which, Rama emphasized, are even worse now than they were when the Socialist Party first came into power.
“There is no doubt that Albania today will not be the same—it will be very different from the ‘Albania 2030’ within the European Union. ‘Albania 2030’ will be a new Albania, a country with a new position and strength, a member state of a large family of freedoms, rights, and opportunities—ones we do not yet have today and cannot have even tomorrow, unless we all, together, make Albania part of that family today. In that family, the individual freedom of citizens and equality before the law are no longer questioned,” declared Rama.
The Socialist Party leader, Rama, pointed out that it was the Socialist Party that gave justice both the “sword” and the “spirit” to make it independent.
“Indeed, it is the justice system—whose ‘spirit’ and ‘sword’ we, the socialists and progressives of Albania, introduced for the first time into the life of our country—as a ‘sword’ entrusted to an independent judiciary, in a nation that had never truly known independent justice until now,” he emphasized.
Rama noted that from 1912 onward, no individual linked to political power had ever been brought before the justice.
“Since 1912, no one connected to political power has been seen going before an independent prosecutor or judge. We must safeguard this by bringing Albania into the EU—where the justice system, now renewed and independent, will remain independent and grow stronger without interference. Because the Albanian people cannot leave this in the hands of successive governments or parties, but must take it into their own hands and defend it with all their strength—with the vote of May 11—the freedom and independence of the justice system we are building,” he declared.
According to the Prime Minister, we cannot leave justice in the hands of those who took people’s lives.
“They are the ‘swamp’ that not only have never allowed justice to have its say, but that very ‘swamp’ has also managed to take innocent lives and prevent justice from doing its job. Today, they want to return again, because the ‘swamp’s owl’ will return to drag Albania back into its pit, solely for its own interests,” said Rama. /j.p./sm/
