Today is the third day of the opposition protest. Hundreds of youths, citizens, and deputies continue to stay in the tent erected in front of the Prime Ministry. The main demand of the protesters is the installation of a technical government for the organization of the elections. According to the opposition and its supporters, the Rama Government is not able to guarantee free and fair elections.
Journalists, artists, and other public figures have visited the tent. Yesterday, journalists Armand Shkullaku and Sonila Meço expressed their support for the resistance of the citizens until the fulfillment of their condition for free and fair elections.
Shkullaku, who was recently fired from ABC News after criticizing the government, stated:
I see this action that you started as something with no way back. I think that the resistance here of the opposition is the best support that the opposition can give the citizens.
In an interview for News24, Deputy Aldo Bumçi called upon all political parties and citizens to join the resistance in the tent.
Leader of the parliamentary group of the PD, Edi Paloka, declared that the protest will be escalated.
There is only one request, the removal of Edi Rama. There no other option, because our conditions for the creation of a legal framework such that the elections will at least be considered credible were rejected. If mister wants to play indifferent or arrogant, there will be an escalation of the protest.
During his weekly Facebook monologue, Prime Minister Rama called the protest “ridiculous.” He has avoided at all costs a confrontation with the protesters in front of the building of the Prime Ministry. On February 18, during the beginning of the protest, the Prime Minister claimed that he was in Kosovo.
