Protester outside the Prime Minister’s Office: “Enough is enough! We will pull down the shutters and close our businesses

During the protest outside the Prime Minister’s Office, a citizen addressed Parliament with a strong message, linking the country’s current situation to the 2008 constitutional amendments.

“The 2008 constitutional amendments brought us to where we are today,” declared the protester, who then criticized MPs over the way they have performed their duties.

“I want to tell Parliament: You do not represent us. You have passed laws that have harmed the nation and its future. We are here in the square to tell you that Albania belongs to us and to Albanians,” she said.

The protester also spoke about young people and children leaving Albania, stressing that the situation is evident to every citizen and requires no statistical data to understand.

“We do not need statistics; it is enough that we have seen the young people and children who have left. They left because they could not find their rightful place, despite their education,” she said.

She reiterated that the country belongs to its citizens, concluding this part of her message with the words: “Albania is ours.”

The citizen went on to describe businesses’ readiness to support the protest and escalate their action.

“Everywhere we go in Albania, we hear businesses saying, ‘We are with you, and we are ready to take the protest one step further: to pull down the shutters and stop working, to stop paying taxes, and to close our businesses for days so that the authorities cannot come knocking on their doors.’ When businesses themselves offer to do this, imagine how desperate things have become. They can barely manage to pay their employees’ wages,” the protester declared.