{"id":1522,"date":"2026-06-28T12:08:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T12:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/2026\/06\/28\/multiple-protests-one-demand-albanias-pm-must-go-video\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T12:08:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T12:08:51","slug":"multiple-protests-one-demand-albanias-pm-must-go-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=1522","title":{"rendered":"Multiple protests, one demand: Albania\u2019s PM must go (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Demonstrators who first opposed a Trump-family linked resort are now calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Albania has been gripped by four weeks of protests that began over controversial plans to build a luxury resort backed by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of US President Donald Trump, and have since evolved into a broader movement demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama. <\/p>\n<p>What started as a local protest has grown into a nationwide movement dubbed the \u2018Flamingo Revolution\u2019 after the wading birds that inhabit the Vjosa-Narta wetland, part of the area affected by the proposed development. <\/p>\n<p>Members of the Albanian diaspora abroad have returned to join the demonstrations, according to local media and the Financial Times.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.06\/thumbnail\/6a41031d85f5407678198a5f.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a demonstration in Tirana, Albania, on June 27, 2026.\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/641902-albania-protests-kushner-development-explainer\/\">\u2018Albania is not for sale\u2019: Inside the protests over a Trump family-linked resort<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Two members of the European Parliament, Germany\u2019s Jutta Paulus and Italy\u2019s Leoluca Orlando, also joined rallies this week. Paulus said on social media she would <em>\u201cbring the [protesters\u2019] concerns to Brussels.\u201d<\/em> Albania became an EU candidate in 2014 and formally opened accession negotiations in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>RT correspondent Yasin Eken attended Saturday\u2019s demonstration in Tirana and spoke to protesters.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators who first opposed a Trump-family linked resort are now calling for the resignation of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}