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Rama on public spaces: The action continues with persistence, imposition of a new mentality

2026-03-29 10:03:00, Politikë CNA

Rama on public spaces: The action continues with persistence, imposition of a

Prime Minister Edi Rama commented extensively today on the action to free up public spaces that has been ongoing for several months.

As Rama expressed in his podcast "Flasim", it is not just about an action that will change the appearance of cities, but also about changing a mentality that has been ingrained in Albanians since the dictatorship.

"The liberating of public spaces and the imposition of a new status of public space continues, continues, continues with persistence. It is not easy."

It is a struggle with a deeply rooted mentality, apparently even deeper than these 30-odd years. Apparently, combined with the mentality of before the time when public spaces were the spaces of a single state in a so-called dictatorship of the proletariat, where the proletarians had everything in words and had everything together, but had absolutely nothing.

Meanwhile, the process, as I said at the beginning, after we won the fourth mandate, is not a temporary process, it is not an action of one week, one month, two months, but it is a continuous, continuous, continuous commitment to restore order in the use of common spaces.

In Tirana alone, where many problems related to the occupation of public spaces have been identified, 140 thousand square meters have been freed, which is not a small amount, while in areas such as, for example, the area here in the center, very strong interventions have been undertaken to ensure the liberation of public spaces.

What is important to say is that at the same time we are also extending into rural residential areas, we are also extending into areas that, of course, and precisely because they are areas of tourist interest, cannot be points where inert materials are dumped and meaningless buildings are erected without permission, and in parallel we are moving forward with new models that will replace the old ones based on studies done by architects and based on the work done by the municipality, and we are also finalizing the general regulation on the basis of which then all those who operate in the enterprise related to the use of public space will have a clear idea of ??where their boundaries are.
And in fact, the simple principle will be 70 to 30% of a space, where 70% will always be for the public, will always be for the community, will always be for those who walk", said Rama. /CNA

 





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