During this campaign for the May 11 elections, Prime Minister Edi Rama was forced to apologize for using the term "political autistic" for people who chose to vote for the opposition and not for the Socialist Party.
Asked on "Off the Record" with Andrea Dangli on A2 CNN why he used that term, but also about the vocabulary he uses in general for the opposition, Rama replied: "Satire and caricatures do not fall into bullying. They have a special status in today's world, because democracy and freedom of expression, satire and caricature, consider them as high forms of expression... You also included the word autistic there. I have used it completely differently than it was manipulated, because I have spoken about political autism. And if you refer to the literature, you will find this terminology in academic and political literature, used very often."
"I made this explanation too, because it was somewhere sleeping in my head and came out at that moment. But in the face of the hurt of even one single mother of an autistic child, I felt guilty and apologized to all those parents of autistic children, who, in addition to others, because I, - due to my duty, I have also learned about autism, are extraordinary children - while I expressed all my disgust for those who used this expression to include it in this general categorization." (A2 Televizion)
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