Prime Minister Edi Rama’s speech in today’s parliamentary session:

 

There’s nothing left for me to do but tell you in the eyes something I’ve told you also before, and which is of course worth repeating for those who are listening: those who try to fool the Albanians will eventually end up badly. So, stop trying to fool the Albanians, for it will be even worse for you and you’ll pay a very high price.

Those who think that they can fool even the most illiterate Albanian are wrong, and will eventually pay a price for this. You were wrong before and have kept being wrong. And’ you’ve always paid a high price.

This situation is but the bill the Albanians have charged to you, after you’ve fooled them not only once, but many times. And you will pay again for it. You’ll pay it at a higher price, with the interest rate on your low-level behaviour, actions and words with regard to Albania, to the people, to justice.

Let them scream and cry while pronouncing the name of Albania, but they must forget that they will fool its people. They can even use the heralds from the media cauldron, but it will be of no use. This people knows very well who they are and what they want, who they’re afraid of and, of course, what it should think about them.

I don’t feel pity for them. I cannot, because the more they throw mud at this government and at this majority, the deeper this people will bury them in the pit they’ve opened. Although, I cannot but feel pity for their hatred which is taking them increasingly down as opposition, because they’ve become blind tools of their own hatred.

The only advice I would give you – they’re leaving, they don’t listen because they think that they can continue to fool this people – is not to continue to hate us because the more they hate us, the more they will lose sight of logic.