Albanian Premier Edi Rama has addressed a third public letter to Democratic Party chairman Lulzim Basha where he confirms his intention to stay in his post despite the huge opposition protests with the participation of tens of thousands of citizens.

Rama wrote again today after Basha responded to his second letter by saying the Albanian Prime Minister should have resigned twenty times considering his failures in governing the country and the links of his government to the organized crime. In the third letter, Rama considered exchanging public letters with Basha as an incentive for a political dialogue between the two.

The opposition has boycotted the parliament and the upcoming local elections and promised to not participate in every future election as long as Rama will be Prime Minister. Rama responded to this in the letter addressed to Basha saying he cannot step down because he has obligations to those who made him Prime Minister and repeated the election will go ahead as planned on June 30.

“You have no chance to stop June 30 from coming for those who want to vote. No chance to change the government without elections! No chance to stop the Socialist Party of Albania and myself to carry out the historic mission of Albania’s European transformation”, Rama wrote to Democratic Party chairman Lulzim Basha today.