The government of Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama is under increasing pressure as Albanians continue taking to the streets to call for his resignation, as well as the leader of the opposition, Sali Berisha, faulting them and their parties for some thirty years of corruption ever since the end of the communist regime in 1991.The catalyst for the protests first began over a multi-billion-dollar luxury resort plan by Jared Kushner and his business partners pursuing the creation of two resort properties through investment firm Affinity Partners that will add around 10,000 hotel rooms and villas to Albanian coastal lands.One planned location, the abandoned Sazan Island, is the home of a former Soviet military base.The other property in Zvërnec is said to be home to the Vjosa-Narta protected landscape where monk seals and flamingos make their homes and sea turtles nest.EUROPEAN CAPITAL ROCKED BY VIOLENT PROTESTS AS GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION PROBE FUELS UNRESTThousands of protesters gathered in Tirana, Albania on Saturday June 20 demanding government change over corruption claims.
(Reuters)Agim Nesho, former Albanian ambassador to the U.S.and the United Nations, told Fox News Digital that, "Unlike some of the misinformation in the media, the protests in Albania are not against the family of President Donald Trump and foreign investors like Jared Kushner.
These investors are bringing in $4 billion dollars into Albania that will create jobs and opportunity for our youth. "They are building on private land whose protected status was revoked years ago by Rama and his oligarchs.Global investors have standards and demonstrate accountability, and there is a hope they will show more care and consideration for the environment than Edi Rama and the business interests around him, who would instead build there on their own," he said.Nesho claimed that "After 12 years and at least three stolen elections, including last year’s parliamentary election which was not recognized by th...