Former MP of the Democratic Party, Albana Vokshi has reacted regarding the hunger strike of oil workers, urging Prime Minister Edi Rama to give up threats. 

Oil-workers of Ballsh Refinery have been on hunger strike for 32 days in a row (18 days the oil-men and 14 days the oil-women), asking to PM Rama their 20 unpaid salaries and work resumption. But the Premier has conditionalized them to give up from hunger strike first and then he will go and meet with them. 

For this reason, Vokshi declared to the Premier that the only solution with the hunger strikers is to pay them their money. 

"Edi Rama must give up pressure on women strikers in Ballsh. No one trusts him anymore, as he has repeatedly broken the promise to reopen the refinery and to give the unpaid salaries. 

On September 17, Ballsh oil workers were outside the government in Tirana to demand dialogue. Edi Rama ignored them. It left men and women hopeless with the arrogance of a prime minister who does not know what it means not to be able to give dinner to children. 

The women strikers in Ballsh are in their own right. The arrogance and cynicism of Edi Rama, who set conditions for the strikers to deceive them again, is the face of corruption that destroys the lives of Albanians. 

The only solution that Rama has for oil-workers is to pay them the stolen money up to the last penny," Vokshi emphasized.