From the National Theatre, to that of puppets and the library/ Berisha counts the "deeds" of Veliaj

2024-03-27 20:35:00, Politikë CNA

From the National Theatre, to that of puppets and the library/ Berisha counts

The chairman of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha

The chairman of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, in the night protest, accused the mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj.

Berisha dedicated the protest to the National Theatre, while saying that Let's not forget that the battle for him is a battle for national dignity.

"Dear friends, today this protest cannot have a symbol, a more sacred sign than the unparalleled endurance in the history of Europe of a group of artists for the nation's theater. Their battle for the nation's theater is actually the battle of every Albanian who feels Albanian. It is the battle of every citizen who feels himself a citizen. It is a battle of all those who believe that culture and identity are the soul of the nation, are the soul of the society and the country.

Their most extraordinary stand ever recorded is a battle we can never and must never lose. Theater and culture are the flags that are fought for, everything is sacrificed for their victory.

My friends, Tirana is today the only capital and Albania is today the only country without a national theater, because a broken-hearted, pseudo-artist, seeing himself as incomparable to real artists, waged a fierce inhumane battle on how exterminate them.

The battle against the theater is the battle of pseudo-artists against real artists. But the battle against the theater is not only that. It is the battle of corruption, drugs against our culture and theater. If we look at it coldly, drugs, corruption leveled the theater, which was not done even by the most barbaric invasions", he said.

Berisha also mentioned the National Library to Veliaj, which he said is no longer useful, as it was burned down and drowned by corruption.

"My friends, don't forget that Edi Rama, Erion Veliaj, did not leave the capital alone without a theater. No no. Today we do not have a national library. Go to the library for a bit. It is no longer served there. There, someone, a black hand, set fire to the library. He wanted to burn the nation's library. And to this day there is no inventory of how many thousands of volumes, vital national documents were burned under the flames of the barbaric arsonist. But the fire against her was not enough.

The library was drowned, which had never happened in history. He was drowned by the corruption of Erion Veliaj. The library has wonderful staff, I tell you. I spent many years of my life in that library in the afternoons studying. There are dedicated, passionate people, true servants of the book and the reader. It doesn't work anymore and nobody talks. The only moment was its waxing, its politicization.

Even that, from a powerful center of books and culture, has turned into a house of oblivion, which is no longer talked about. Which is no longer served. From the powerful center of intellectual development, today it counts the ruins, the terrible consequences of the fire, the flood. For months and months, with hair dryers, they dried the pages of the books that Erion Veliaj overturned. No one speaks!" declared the former prime minister.

Further, the chairman of the DP also stopped at the Puppet Theater. He raised accusations that the puppet theater has been taken over by corruption.

"Dear friends, it was a dictatorship, in the darkest time, but still Tirana had a puppet theater, a theater for children. And the children waited on Saturday and Sunday to watch the show there. Even the puppet theater has been taken over by corruption. Today, Tirana is a city without cultural institutions. It is a city stripped of the big centers that radiated light and culture.

What happens to the Albanians?

This is a field, but it is a very sensitive field, it is a very important field, one of the most important. Films were produced, our artists were grouped, joined in film scripts, performed, proved their talent. Today there is no longer a film of these talented people because everything has been replaced with the scribbles of a defamed thief, a despicable thief, who with his Ishmael goes around the scribbles, which art critics very rightly rated as creatures of the drugged teenager", underlined Berisha./ CNA