TIRANA, July 24 /ATA/ Socialist Party Chairman and Prime Minister Edi Rama stated today that governance has entered a new phase, where citizens no longer judge based on past shortcomings, but on expectations for a higher quality of life and services.
Speaking at the Socialist Party parliamentary group meeting, Rama focused on the need for a new approach to communicating with citizens, emphasizing that the government’s facts and achievements are no longer enough to meet society’s expectations.
“We have a lot of facts to respond to lies, slander and accusations, but our facts are no longer enough,” Rama said.
“Therefore, the first lesson I want to share with you is that our facts are no longer enough. Because in the Albania that we radically transformed, people no longer live with the satisfaction of the changes that occur, nor with the encouragement of the things that are built. Today, they live with expectations that grow faster than our ability to respond,” he said.
Speaking about the protest, Rama described it as a mirror of society that should serve as a reflection.
“This was a mirror that society put before us to see ourselves and to understand whether we have the mind and heart in the right place to govern the Albania of this new phase,” Rama said.
Rama said that in that mirror he sees the end of the era of shortages and the beginning of the era of expectations.
According to the head of the Government, in the past the construction of a road, a school or a park was experienced as a collective victory, while today these are considered standards that citizens expect as given.
“In the era of expectations, the new road is a standard, not a victory. Good service is taken for granted and any deficiency is tolerated less and less”, said Rama.
PM Rama referred to scholar Alexis de Tocqueville, recalling his warning that the most dangerous moment for a government is precisely when it starts to change things.
According to Rama, this is the reality that the government faces today, while the country continues the process of development and transformation in order to increase the well-being of its citizens. /e.i/j.p/p.s./
