Prime Minister Edi Rama attacked the opposition today from Skanderbeg Square, where the rally to open the Socialist Party's campaign was held.
Using language beyond normal, Rama described opposition leaders as part of what he calls the 'Great Swamp', continuing with epithets such as 'flying carpet sellers of the swamp bazaar'.
The chief executive also said that Albania and Albanians have two choices on May 11: either vote for the Socialist Party to bring the country into the European Union, or vote to lead the country into the abyss.
Excerpt from Rama's speech:
Today is the day and this month divided between April and May is the time for us to start not the next electoral campaign, but the great assembly of the mountains and the plains, of the cities and the villages, of Albanians and Albanians, beyond the left and the right, beyond the party barricades and old customs, for Albania, the hostess at the great table of the United European Family.
As united and as aware as possible of the fate that has come our way, but not forever, because encounters with history do not wait and cannot be postponed at our whim, we must take the open path of fate without prejudice towards each other and without temptations for the next stupidity, if we want to put an end to the history of a second-rate people, trampled upon and excluded from their own fate, and hand over to our children and to all generations to come, a country within the borders of the European Union, where there will no longer be any difference between Albanians, Italians, Greeks or Germans, and no chance to look down on Albanians.
Albania today is nowhere near the same as it was when we took office, in any field or anywhere else, except in the swamp of the opposition and the media surrounding it, which are even worse than when we took office.
But there is no doubt that Albania today will not be anywhere near the same as Albania 2030 in the European Union. In no field or direction, and perhaps even the opposition swamp will have dried up by then, but this is the only thing that is in the hands of the minority and not the majority of Albanians.
Albania 2030 will be a new Albania, a country with a different position and power, a member state of a large family of freedoms, rights and opportunities that we do not yet have today, and that we cannot have tomorrow without becoming part of that family.
In that family, the individual freedom of Albanians will never be questioned, by any government, no matter what, here in Albania, because whoever enters that house can no longer play tricks on its own citizens.
Therefore, even in that family, no one can question the equality before the law for its citizens, which we, the socialists and progressives of Albania, have brought for the first time as a real, concrete, current development in Albanian life, where there has been no equality before the law or independent justice since 1912, and therefore, from 1912 until a few years ago, there has never been an individual vested with political power who has been investigated, tried or convicted by prosecutors and courts independent of the government.
But the Albanian people cannot leave equality before the law in the hands of governments and government leaders here, they must take it into their own hands, defend it with all the strength of their will, starting from May 11, where the choice is not between a few parties, but between Albania 2030 in the EU with us and Albania straight into the pit again, with the magnificent swamp and the flying carpet sellers of the small swamp bazaar around it, which also have some funny names; no it can't be done, (A2 Televizion)
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