Revealed On 21 Jun 2026
Hundreds of protesters have marched by Albania’s capital, Tirana, in one of many largest rallies but in opposition to a luxurious resort undertaking linked to United States President Donald Trump that has grow to be a lightning rod for anger over alleged corruption.
Since late Might, demonstrators have gathered each night to oppose the deliberate building of a resort complicated tied to Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, on a protected stretch of the Balkan nation’s coast.
Saturday’s march drew what seemed to be one of many largest crowds because the motion started, with many members of the Albanian diaspora travelling residence to affix. Waving Albanian and US flags, protesters launched crimson balloons and chanted “Albania is just not on the market,” a slogan projected onto the facade of the prime minister’s workplace.
“We aren’t in opposition to the nation’s improvement; we’re in opposition to the vanity and lack of transparency surrounding initiatives that have an effect on our lives,” stated Alma, a science pupil.
The Kushner-backed resort, together with one other deliberate improvement on close by Sazan Island, would sit close to key breeding grounds for migratory birds within the Vjosa-Narta protected space, together with flocks of flamingos.
Environmental considerations have fused with wider anger at Prime Minister Edi Rama, whom protesters accuse of opaque offers alongside the coast. Many now say they are going to stay on the streets till he resigns.
Rama, who has stayed defiant, advised a celebration assembly that he wouldn’t step down and argued that the controversy is pushed extra by Kushner’s title and the “shadow of Trump” than by the undertaking itself.
