TIRANA, June 20 /ATA/ “The global outcry wasn’t sparked by Narta’s endangered fate, but by the involvement of Jared Kushner, fueled by the shadow of Donald Trump”, said today Prime Minister Edi Rama.
At the extended meeting of the socialist Parliamentary group, PM Rama said that “The boulevard protests against the Zvërnec project took on both the Kushner-Trump development and a relentless online and offline army of detractors.”
“It’s not about being against Donald Trump—it’s ultimately against you and me. They hoped that this worldwide protest would deliver the miracle that Lulzim Basha’s local tent movement fell short of”, Rama added.
The prime minister emphasized that under these circumstances when millions of people who do not even know where Zvërnec is located, knew exactly what to think about Zvërnec.
“The turmoil of these past 20 days isn’t just about the state of Albania’s government. It’s a mirror reflecting the new era we’ve stepped into—the global realities and mounting challenges we will continually have to confront”, Rama added.
Rama argued that ten years ago, this issue would have remained an isolated domestic quarrel. ‘People would have taken sides,’ he said, ‘but the debate would have stayed within Albania, regardless of any foreign or supernatural interference.
Reflecting on the incident a decade later, the Prime Minister stated that what began as a violent clash between security guards and a protester in a remote Albanian village exploded within 48 hours into a worldwide digital war, echoing across every international media platform.
“This happened not because the world suddenly woke up one morning deeply concerned about the fate of Albania’s nature and the Narta flamingos,” he noted. “Until recently, right under the nose of an indifferent global community, the area was a lawless slaughterhouse. Thousands of Western hunters descended on our land to shoot birds and animals purely for sport. If we had waited for the world to act, the flamingos would have vanished completely a decade ago, driven away by the bullets of drunken, savage men.” /a.g/p.s./
