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Neither the Albanian government nor the opposition reacted publicly to the protest over the Albanian language in North Macedonia.
The protest of Albanian students in Skopje over the Albanian language issue has passed almost silently in Albanian politics. So far, there has been no official reaction from the Albanian government, the Socialist Party or the Democratic Party regarding the protest and the concerns raised by Albanian students in North Macedonia.
The only political figure from the majority who has reacted publicly is former Foreign Minister Elisa Spiropali, who made a lengthy response on social media about the situation and the protest in Skopje.
" In Skopje, Albanian students protested for the Albanian language. This fact alone is serious enough to understand that the problem is not procedural, but deeply political, institutional and moral. Yesterday's protest showed that sometimes a state reveals unresolved issues not in the halls of parliament or in political statements, but in the streets. It reveals them in the faces of students. In the way a young person is forced to protest for something that in Europe should have been resolved long ago ," says Spiropali.
She emphasizes that the issue is not only related to an Albanian language exam, but to the very treatment of Albanians as a state-forming factor in North Macedonia.
" The problem is not just an exam in the Albanian language. The problem is much deeper. It is the fact that the equality of Albanians is still treated as a political compromise and not as a constitutional foundation of the state. A language is not an administrative translation. It is dignity, memory and identity. It is the way a people survives history, time and any attempt at fading or assimilation ," her reaction continues.
Further, Spiropali states that Albanians in North Macedonia are not seeking privileges, but rights that, according to her, should have been guaranteed long ago.
" Albanians in North Macedonia are not asking for privileges. They are asking for what should have been resolved many years ago and which in this century should no longer be discussed. Albanians as a political ethnicity, the Albanian language and collective rights should be clearly, firmly and unequivocally defined in the Constitution of the state, because Albanians are not a tolerated minority, but one of the state-forming pillars of North Macedonia itself ," she declares.
At the end of her reaction, Spiropali calls for more dialogue and political vision in relation to the rights of Albanians in North Macedonia.
" At this moment, more wisdom, more dialogue and more vision are required. What is required is faith that equality does not weaken the state, it strengthens it. That respecting the language, dignity and identity of Albanians is not a threat to anyone, but a guarantee for a more democratic, more stable and more European North Macedonia. Because in the end, the Albanian language is part of our soul. And no one can ask a people to be silent in their own language ," her reaction concludes.
Bravo, zonja Spiropali! Po befasoni per te mire. Po liderucat hajdut antishqiptar, Salehu e Ramuti ku jane fshehur?