TIRANA, Sept. 11 /ATA/ – Prime Minister Edi Rama said on Friday that the involvement of U.S. President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner had helped give the protests against the planned investment in southern Albania area of Zvërnec an international dimension.
Speaking to journalist Rudina Xhunga on the “Flasim Shqip” podcast, Rama said the protest would not have reached the same scale without their names being associated with the project.
“If Kushner’s name and Trump’s name had not been part of this project, I am certain this would not have reached the scale it did,” Rama said.
He said international political forces opposed to Trump had also turned the protests into a broader political confrontation.
“The entire anti-Trump part of international politics found a battlefield on the boulevard to challenge Donald Trump and defeat him through the Albanians,” Rama said.
Rama said the government had a responsibility to counter what he called false claims with documents and arguments, but acknowledged that concerns over property, transparency, environmental impact, public access and whether beaches would remain public were legitimate.
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