Minister Rama: I will not resign and I will not dismiss Zana Çela The artists' hunger strike continues. On Sunday, artists from Shkodër, Durrës, Fier, Korçë are also expected to join the strike. Berat and several institutions in Tirana page 27

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Blocked areas and ice are causing panic and pressure on the PSD in the eyes of citizens. Ice on the ground, ice in politics Blocked areas and ice are causing panic and pressure on the PSD. The army gathers in Tirana to give reports to Prime Minister Ilir Meta about the chaos created by the severe frost. Polemics are escalating in the institutional circles and among the supporters of the country's prime minister who praise Rama, who was more worried about Kastrioti's intimate baptism than about the people buried under avalanches, isolated in northern villages. This will most likely mark the beginning of the current government crisis. Despite the fact that Prime Minister Ilir Meta is able to write public letters more harshly than the minister, his post should have taken him out of this frozen display, had it not reached the sinister part of the opposition in the old Meta government, the most tragic part of the prime minister acting in the role of the opposition as government. Again in Tirana it was reaffirmed that the path of decline has been blocked by the government-presidency divide, specifically by those same factors unfamiliar with the government in new confrontations and who are preparing once again for a second tragedy, as before other disasters in their relations and positions. Usually such events are transformed into effects in the inevitable and influenced course of political bargaining and bring the country's most serious institutions back into play. But this time the blocked roads, the energy supply channels, and even inside the government are all frozen as well. The position being maintained by the head of the PSD, Mustafa, regarding the government's indifference to this situation helps us see a lost opportunity for this majority, or for part of it that may have become part of the frost. Meta himself, with the rhetoric of an opposition figure, is turning even the part of the majority with which the government is facing extremely miserable consequences into a classic conflict. Before, in Rama's direction, things were clearer and more positive, Prime Minister Meta decided to avoid a quarrel with the PSD chairman, placing part of the responsibility for the country's misfortunes on him. Meanwhile, the strikers' demand for the minister's removal and the renewal of public values within the Ministry, along with others and the parties and, with full intent, Meta, once again addressed the prime minister in the name of unity in decision-making and positioning. Ironically, if this happened according to the head's warnings, it would no longer be a tragedy even for Ilir Meta's government. From morning until evening he sat and negotiated to get out of this situation. Today, with high probability, the cabinet will make the first clear analysis of what is happening. The discussions of recent months had shifted attention to the periphery of the center, but the events of recent days are reshaping the government's priorities.

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