The fence surrounding power

2026-06-04 11:15:00, Opinione Luan Rama

One of Edi Rama's first acts as Prime Minister was to tear down the fence surrounding the Prime Minister's Office.

It was a gesture with strong symbolic meaning.

Because that FENCE did not simply surround a building.
It surrounded power.
And it gave us the idea that power is another territory. A separate territory. An area separated from the city. A space within which the citizen cannot enter.
And more than that: citizenship does not exist as a concept, nor as a principle, nor as a behavior.

Especially with the crime of January 21, the fence took on meanings that go beyond separation. From within the fence, they can shoot and kill.

By removing the fence, Edi Rama, Prime Minister, gave a clear message: power would no longer hide.
Because power is not afraid and has no reason to hide from the citizen.

The inner-city state would be returned to the citizens. The prime minister's office would be returned to the city.

Finally we were together again.
All of US.
No longer US and THEM.

But it all turned out to be a trick.
An illusion.
And a deception.

The fence that was removed from the Prime Minister's Office
was scattered everywhere. It was also placed in Zvërnec.
And what a fence: with barbed wire.

Like the fences of dictatorship.

Not as a trick. Not as a prop.
But as a division. As enmity.

Because the fence, before being an object, is the philosophy of power.

The fence is division.
The fence is separation.
The fence is exclusion.
The fence is privilege.
The fence is benefit.
The fence is contempt.
The fence is violence.

The fence is proof that there are two categories of people: WE (the government) who kidnap and beat us, and THEM (the citizens), who must obey and remain obedient even when dragged and beaten by those dressed in black. Like the black hoods.

The fence is a crime.

Aren't incinerators also a fence?
Aren't ministries that steal under the principle of "the minister's little drop" also a fence?

Aren't municipalities with mayors in prison another fence?

Isn't Vlora airport a fence?

Isn't AKSHI a fence?

Isn't every contract kept out of the public eye a hedge?

Isn't every decision made without transparency a fence?

And after all, isn't power itself a fence?

A fence within which the same things always happen:
Abuse.
Waste.
Profit.
Crime.

While outside the fence, always the same: the citizens.

That's why the government fence in Zvërnec goes beyond the barbed wire. Even beyond Zvërnec.

Because he's not just a fence.

It's a story.
It's the face of power.

It is the power that came by tearing down the fence, but which now finds itself surrounded by its own fence.

Have you seen the Prime Minister who speaks from within the fence every time he speaks?
Even in the group of deputies, he speaks from within the fence.
From within the fence of closed-mouthed mannequins who roll their eyes and don't move as they listen to him like concrete pillars of ignorance and not like deputies who should protect the public interest.

There, inside that fence, that Prime Minister dressed in black feels his strength.

Just like those others, they feel their strength inside the Zvërnec fence (even those dressed in black!), who kidnapped and raped as they wanted in front of the state police the innocent citizen, just because he wanted to tear down the fence.

Therefore, the protest is not against investment.
It is not against development.
It is not against tourism.

No one protests against an investment that respects the law, competition, transparency, and public interest.

The protest is against the fence.

Against the fence within which the government has the right to act without giving explanations.

Against the fence that forces the citizen to always stay on the other side.

Because democracy begins exactly where the fence ends. And it ends exactly where the fence begins.