During his speech at the Socialist Party Assembly, Prime Minister Edi Rama focused on the transformations that, according to him, Albania has undergone since 2013.
The Prime Minister’s speech:
“Tirana has problems, but Tirana today is a European capital. They were settlements without cities, where today people enjoy, amid crowds of tourists, Shkodra, Berat, Lezha, Vlora and so on, all of them. There were only large car parks, mixed with cows and calves brought to be sold, and everything resembled a place forgotten by God. How can we forget these?
After that phrase, “the accession treaty”, we are not alone here. There is an endless number of people. Among them are also people from the much-maligned administration, which is attacked day after day, while it has within its ranks thousands and thousands of dignified employees, invisible servants of the Albanian state and public.
How can we not see, after that phrase, the corridors of the Mother Teresa Hospital, with bicycles inside? People rode bicycles in the hospital corridor. Not in 1913, but in 2013. You could not distinguish the doctor, the patient, the relative, the seed seller or the underwear seller from the passer-by who walked the road from Bardhyl to the street on the other side, cutting through the hospital. And the schools, hundreds and hundreds
And the schools, a journalist came to follow the flamingos, went to Kamza, where the revolutionaries most ready to burn Tirana have usually been sought, and when we met he told me, the schools I have seen in Kamza are not in the richest neighborhood of my city. I cannot tell you who he was.
And Albania’s infrastructure today, and Albania’s public services today, and this very process that I have mentioned, I myself have been terrified, because even I myself was worried that our administration did not have the capacity to cope with the new life. The new challenge of facing Europe”, said Rama.