Protester Erlis Sina has responded to Prime Minister Edi Rama after the latter wrote him a lengthy letter on social media, calling on him to join forces to solve people’s problems. In a Facebook post, Sina rejected the comparisons Rama drew between himself and the protesters. The protester stresses that, unlike Rama, he has not held power in his hands for years, nor does he sign decisions that change people’s lives.
Further on, Sina accuses Rama of being responsible for the emigration of young people, vote theft, and social injustice, stressing that it is Rama’s own arrogance in power that has forced them to take to the square, and not any influence from other political factors.
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Erlis Sina’s reaction:
A necessary response to Edi Rama!
I AM NOT YOU!
Do not tell me that in my photograph you see yourself.
I am not you.
I am not the one who has held power in his hands for years. I am not the one who signs decisions that change people’s lives. I am not the one who controls the institutions, the budgets, and the fate of this country.
You are.
So do not dare tell me that my troubles are the same as yours.
You are not the victim of my troubles. You are the author of them.
You are the author of the emigration of thousands of young people who no longer saw a future in Albania. You are the author of the injustices that force people to leave their own country. You are the author of the arrogance of a government that no longer listens to anyone but itself.
When you say you are afraid of those who could harm Albania, you forget one thing:
There is no abyss deeper than stealing the vote.
There is no abyss deeper than seizing property.
There is no abyss deeper than destroying dignity.
There is no abyss deeper than stealing the future of an entire generation.
Thousands of people do not fill the squares because they are manipulated by the algorithm. They do not protest because influencers ask them to. They are not angry because the opposition tells them to be.
They take to the square because they live this reality every day.
Because they pay the bills. Because they look for work. Because they wait in hospitals. Because they watch their children leave. Because they feel like strangers in their own country.
And when you try to portray them as a crowd being used, you do not understand them. You are despising them.
My photograph on your wall stains me.
Do not use it to wash away your responsibilities.
Do not use it to hide your failures.
Do not use it to build your story as a savior.
I am not you.
And if I am in the square, I am not there because someone deceived me.
I am there because I know very well who has brought me to this point.
