"If you know my problem, why haven't you solved it all these years?"/ Protesting citizen responds to Rama's letter

2026-06-23 09:58:24 / POLITIKË ALFA PRESS

 

Following the open letter published this Tuesday morning by Prime Minister Edi Rama regarding the protester who woke up under his office in a sign of resistance, there has also been a reaction from the citizen himself to whom the head of government addressed (given the way he decided to address Rama).

Rama published a photo of the protester sitting alone in front of the Prime Minister's Office building, stating that he did not see him as "the loser of a protest," but as a citizen who had remained true to his beliefs. In the long letter, the prime minister expressed his understanding of his distress and anger over injustices, corruption, property problems, healthcare, and the arrogance of power.

But the protester responded directly to Rama in his own post, raising a fundamental question to the head of government.

"I'm not angry that you don't understand me. I'm angry that you understand me very well," he writes, emphasizing that the prime minister accurately describes in the letter all the problems that burden the lives of citizens.

According to the protester, it is precisely the recognition of these problems that makes the question to Rama even stronger: "If you know my plight so well, what prevented you from solving it all these years?"

He denies being part of political games or being used by the opposition, emphasizing that his protest is an attempt to be heard by a state that, according to him, still does not function properly for its citizens.

"I just want my country to function. If I protest, it doesn't mean that someone sent me. It could mean that I have no other way to be heard," he says.

The protester's response:

It doesn't make me angry that you don't understand me. It makes me angry that you understand me so well.

In this letter, you describe my troubles accurately: low pay, injustices, property, health, the arrogance of power.

Precisely because I know them so well, I ask: why, after so many years at the head of government, do they continue to be a part of my life?

I don't want to be a protest hero or a tool of the opposition.

I don't even want to be told that I'm being used by others every time I protest.

I just want my country to function.

If I protest, it doesn't mean that someone sent me.

It could mean that I have no other way to be heard.

And if after so many years in power you still invite me to come to you to solve my problem, then maybe the problem is not that I am alone.

"Maybe the problem is that the state hasn't come to me yet."

If you know my plight so well, what prevented you from solving it all these years?

"If you know my problem, why haven't you solved it all these

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