What are "swamps" and "owls" according to Edi Rama?

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2025-05-03 21:24:00 | Politikë

What are "swamps" and "owls" according to Edi Rama?

In an exclusive interview on "Off the Record" on A2 CNN, with journalist Andrea Danglli, Prime Minister Edi Rama gave an explanation for the terms he used most during this campaign, "swamp" and "swamp owl", addressed to the leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha.

"The swamp is not bullying. It is a metaphor for a very concrete and very tangible reality. Our opposition is a swamp, it is stagnant water. It has been left at the mercy of a hopeless individual who has taken the entire opposition hostage, while he can barely connect his own sentences, because age has also taken its toll. So it is a swamp," said Rama.

"This individual, who has actually acquired a status, a status that you all have given him, accepting all the tar and paint that he spits out every day for anyone outside the perimeter of the swamp, for me he exactly personifies the swamp owl. The bird that lives in the swamp, that feeds on the creatures inside. Because this individual feeds on the creatures inside. That is why that party, born as a party of hope, cannot escape the clutches of this owl and remains a swamp where all those who are a little different, or are swallowed by the owl, drown in the waters of the swamp. The primaries were the most spectacular example of what I am saying, how the winners of the primaries were swallowed by the owl and disappeared from the lists. If it were a race, the winners would not end up in the belly of the owl and would not be wanted persons, in the sense that it is not known where they are, from the point of view of "politics". (A2 Televizion)

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