The tower of arrogance of Eddie Rama falls on Nation Street

The images that television channels and social networks are broadcasting from the Nation's Causeway are at once shocking and hopeful - smoke, flame, clashes between frustrated people and the forces of order. The impact limit is symbolic: the country where the government had decided to collect the absurd national Road tax, five euros for a total crossing of 70km of roads, five euros for ordinary travellers, and 22 euros for truckers. A double tax, triple or fivefold higher than the surrounding countries or the European countries with salaries and prosperitys higher than Albania and Kosovo, whose citizens will be forced to pay for the transition.

It is too much to give arguments against this tax, since the figure is so loud that it is designed to enter into argument. In Macedonia, for the same distance, citizens pay five times less. In Greece, Serbia and Italy as well. In Kosovo at all. The highway runs through the poorest area in Albania, whose residents, if given 10 euros in Milot, would set off on foot to get from Kukes, Mirdita, Dibra, Tropo, Hasi, and would return on foot from there. The same can be said for most Kosovo citizens.

Other arguments? Without end. In countries where highway taxes are imposed, citizens have dozens of alternatives to travel through the endless two - way roads that cross the entire territory, regional and national roads, all in good conditions free of charge. Citizens choose: paying for the speed of arrival at destination via highway or other roads that are slower but free. Ectholites are even able to choose opportunities such as taste landscapes, bans in towns or tourist villages, and so on.

The Nation's road has no second option. Good afternoon resident cannot go to Mirday, except through this road. Similarly, the resident of Kukes, if not, has to take the old route, which costs him seven hours ' journey, and further, perhaps even the destruction of his vehicle or the loss of his life. Other arguments? Without end. Albanian citizens have once paid the National Road tax. The Nation's route is not invested in private companies, but in the state budget.

And it's cost less, but about a billion dollars or euros. It is Albanians who fill the state budget with their taxes. In addition, each owner pays a considerable annual tax called road tax. Where does this money go? Don't they go on the road?

How can the citizen pay triple the tax for the same thing? How can the citizen, after paying taxes for the public budget, pay another tax for the government's private clientele? This is not called a taxi, but a ruthless robbery and unjust violence. Citizens revolted, and although scenes of fire and smoke do not please anyone, including the author of this scripture, there comes a moment of reflection when you say, "How can you respond to a government and an arrogant prime minister, who does not listen, who does not reflect, who offends and systematically violates?"

Can you answer a prime minister who collapses the National Theatre to build towers? A prime minister treating protest artists as third or fourth-ranking citizens. How do you respond to a government that destroys Butrint for a coffee? Destroying the ruins of ancient Durres for a disgusting concrete mass and selling it as art? To fill the country with cannabis and say that cannabis is only a reality created by those who want to spoil the country's image? That there's a minister who rents the car to smugglers to do their jobs and gives him political protection, on the pretext that there is no evidence and then says that the Justice Reform is producing results? Destroying public universities for private interests? That bandits make deputies and mayors? Which calls them garbage cans and stays in the media all day, even creates a media of its own, “ETV” (Rama TV).

How can you respond to a prime minister who turns the majority into arrogance? Citizens have given the first sign of reaction to Rama's endless arrogance, and it would be good for Rama and his government to understand the message. The greater the submissiveness and frustration of the masses, the more vicious the reaction becomes when the people rise. And the later it rises, the wilder it explodes. It is imperative, then, that the government abandon the presumptuous taxation of the Nation's Way. I apologize to the citizens for provoking and entering into negotiation with local actors affected by this tax. But not just them. Rama and his government should talk to the Government of Kosovo, as such a tax seriously affects the circulation of Kosovo Albanians through Albania's territory. Let him do the meeting between the two governments in Prizren right now if he wants to show that such meetings are nothing more than a disgusting farce to hide the lack of desire for co-operation between two Albanian states in the Balkans.

By imposing this tax, it not only harms the circulation of Kosovo Albanians but undermines the Albanian economy, as the Nation's Road, in addition to the <x0patiotic” road, is an economic road, which helps more than Kosovo, tourism and the Albanian economy. Even late, Mr. Rama and his government still have an opportunity to negotiate with their frustrated citizens. To negotiate with the residents of Kukes on the road, with oilmen, with small tax businesses, artists, teachers and students. His arrogance has come to an end, and the sooner he realizes it, the better it will be for him, for citizens and the country. Otherwise, we will see such scenes of smoke and flame more frequent in the coming days.