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Edi Rama: Take back your city with paint
Edi Rama: Rikthe qytetin tend ne saje te ngjyres
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Bejeni nje qytet te bukur, ndalo korrupsionin. Edi Rama ndermori kete rruge ne dukje te thjeshte si kryebashkiaku i Tiranes, Shqiperi, ku ai ringjali krenarine tek qytetaret e tij duke transformuar hapsirat publike me dizajne me ngjyra. Me projekte qe vendosnin njerezit ne vend te pare, Rama uli krimin, dhe i'u tregoi qytetareve qe mund te kishin besim te drejtuesit e tyre.
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Edi Rama - Politician
From 2000 to 2011 Edi Rama was the mayor of Tirana, where he implemented a series of reforms to take back the city for the people. Full bio
From 2000 to 2011 Edi Rama was the mayor of Tirana, where he implemented a series of reforms to take back the city for the people. Full bio
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00:16
In my previous life, I was an artist.
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Ne jeten time te meparshme, isha nje artist.
00:20
I still paint. I love art.
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Akoma pikturoj. E dua artin.
00:22
I love the joy that color can give to our lives
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Me pelqen gezimi qe i jep ngjyra jeteve tona
00:28
and to our communities,
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dhe komuniteteve tona,
00:31
and I try to bring something of the artist in me
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dhe perpiqem qe te jap dicka nga artisti brenda meje
00:36
in my politics,
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politikes sime,
00:38
and I see
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dhe tani
00:42
part of my job today, the reason for being here,
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nje pjese te punes sime sot, arsyeja pse jam sot ketu,
00:47
not just to campaign for my party,
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jo vetem per te bere fushate per partine time,
00:52
but for politics, and the role it can play
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por per politiken, dhe rolin qe mund te luaj
00:57
for the better in our lives.
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per permiresimin e jeteve tona.
01:01
For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital.
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Per 11 vjet, kam qene Kryebashkiaku i kryeqytetit tone Tiranes.
01:06
We faced many challenges.
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Ne u perballuam me shume sfida.
01:09
Art was part of the answer,
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Arti ishte pjese e pergjigjes,
01:12
and my name, in the very beginning,
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dhe emri im, qe prej fillimit,
01:14
was linked with two things:
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ishte i lidhur me dy gjera:
01:17
demolition of illegal constructions
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shkaterrimin e ndertimeve pa leje
01:21
in order to get public space back,
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ne menyre qe te rikthenim hapesirat publike,
01:25
and use of colors in order to revive the hope
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dhe perdorimin e ngjyrave ne menyre qe te gjalleronim shpresen
01:29
that had been lost in my city.
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qe kishte humbur ne qytetin tim.
01:32
But this use of colors was not just an artistic act.
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Por kete here perdorimi i ngjyrave nuk ishte vetem akt artistik.
01:38
Rather, it was a form of political action
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Ishte nje fome e aksionit politik
01:42
in a context when the city budget I had available
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ne nje kontekst qe buxheti i bashkise qe kisha ne dispozicion
01:47
after being elected amounted to zero comma something.
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pasi u zgjodha kishte vleren e zero presje dickaje.
01:54
When we painted the first building,
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Kur ne lyem ndertesen e pare,
01:57
by splashing a radiant orange on the somber gray
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duke sperkatur nje portokalli te feksur
02:01
of a facade,
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mbi nje fasade te zymte gri,
02:03
something unimaginable happened.
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ndodhi dicka e paimagjinueshme.
02:08
There was a traffic jam
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Trafiku u bllokua
02:10
and a crowd of people gathered
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dhe nje turme njerezish u mblodh
02:13
as if it were the location of some spectacular accident,
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sikur te ishte vendndodhja e ndonje aksidenti spektakolar,
02:18
or the sudden sighting of a visiting pop star.
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apo sikur papritur te shikonin nje pop-star qe po vizitonte.
02:22
The French E.U. official in charge of the funding
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Zyrtari francez i B.E i ngarkuar per financimin
02:27
rushed to block the painting.
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u ngut per te bllokuar lyerjen.
02:30
He screeched that he would block the financing.
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Ai klithi se do te bllokonte financimet.
02:35
"But why?" I asked him.
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"Por pse?" e pyeta ate.
02:39
"Because the colors you have ordered
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"Sepse ngjyrat qe ju keni porositur
02:41
do not meet European standards," he replied.
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nuk permbushin standartet Europieane," mu pergjigj.
02:46
"Well," I told him,
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"Mire" i thashe,
02:49
"the surroundings do not meet European standards,
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rrethinat nuk i permbushin standartet Europiane,
02:52
even though this is not what we want,
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edhe pse kjo nuk eshte ajo qe duam,
02:58
but we will choose the colors ourselves,
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por ne do te perzgjedhim ngjyrat tona vete,
03:01
because this is exactly what we want.
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sepse kjo eshte ekzaktesisht ajo qe ne duam.
03:04
And if you do not let us continue with our work,
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Dhe nese ti nuk na lejon te vazhdojme me punen tone,
03:08
I will hold a press conference here,
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une do te mbaj nje konference shtypi ketu,
03:11
right now, right in this road,
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tani, ketu ne rruge,
03:14
and we will tell people that you look to me
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dhe do ti themi njerezve qe ti na dukesh tamam
03:17
just like the censors of the socialist realism era."
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si censura e kohes se realizmit socialist."
03:23
Then he was kind of troubled,
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Keshtu, ai u gjend keq,
03:26
and asked me for a compromise.
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dhe me kerkoi nje kompromis.
03:29
But I told him no, I'm sorry,
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Por i thashe atij jo, me vjen keq,
03:31
compromise in colors is gray,
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kompromisi ka ngjyre gri,
03:35
and we have enough gray to last us a lifetime.
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dhe ne kemi mjaft gri sa per te gjithe jeten tone.
03:40
(Applause)
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(Duartrokitje)
03:42
So it's time for change.
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Keshtu qe eshte koha per ndryshim.
03:47
The rehabilitation of public spaces
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Rehabilitimi i hapsirave publike
03:49
revived the feeling of belonging
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rigjalleroi ndjesine e perkatesise
03:52
to a city that people lost.
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se nje qyteti qe njerezit humben.
03:57
The pride of people about their own place of living,
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Krenaria e njerezve per vendin e tyre aty ku ata jetonin,
04:03
and there were feelings that had been buried
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dhe keto ishin ndjenjat te cilat ishin varrosur
04:06
deep for years under the fury of the illegal,
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thelle per vite nen furine e paligjshme,
04:11
barbaric constructions that sprang up in the public space.
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ndertimeve barbare qe mbiu ne hapsiren publike.
04:17
And when colors came out everywhere,
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Dhe kur ngjyrat dolen gjithandej,
04:20
a mood of change started transforming the spirit of people.
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nje gjendje ndryshimi filloj te transformoje shpirtrat e njerzeve.
04:24
Big noise raised up: "What is this? What is happening?
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Filloi nje zhurme e madhe : "Cfare eshte kjo? Cfare po ndodh?
04:27
What are colors doing to us?"
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Cfare po na bejne ngjyrat?"
04:29
And we made a poll,
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Dhe ne beme nje sondazh,
04:30
the most fascinating poll I've seen in my life.
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sondazhin me te mahnitshem qe kam pare ne jeten time.
04:32
We asked people, "Do you want this action,
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Ne i pyetem njerezit," E doni kete veprim,
04:40
and to have buildings painted like that?"
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te keni ndertesat e lyera keshtu?"
04:44
And then the second question was,
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Dhe pyetja e dyte ishte,
04:47
"Do you want it to stop or do you want it to continue?"
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"Doni qe te ndalojme apo doni qe te vazhdojme?"
04:50
To the first question,
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Pyetjes se pare,
04:51
63 percent of people said yes, we like it.
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63% e njerzeve thane po, ne na pelqen.
04:55
Thirty-seven said no, we don't like it.
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37% tha jo, ne nuk na pelqen.
04:58
But to the second question, half of them that didn't like it,
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Por ne pyetjen e dyte, gjysma e atyre qe nuk u pelqente
05:01
they wanted it to continue. (Laughter)
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deshironin qe te vazhdonte.(Te qeshura)
05:04
So we noticed change.
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Keshtu qe ne vume re ndryshim.
05:07
People started to drop less litter in the streets, for example,
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Njerzit filluan te hidhnin me pak mbeturina rrugeve, per shembull,
05:12
started to pay taxes,
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filluan te paguanin taksat,
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started to feel something they had forgotten,
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filluan te ndjenin dicka qe ata kishin harruar,
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and beauty was acting as a guardsman
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dhe me e bukura ishte e te vepruarit si roje
05:24
where municipal police, or the state itself, were missing.
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ate ku policia bashkiare, apo shteti vete, mungonin.
05:31
One day I remember walking along a street
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Nje dite me kujtohet kur isha duke ecur vetem rruges
05:34
that had just been colored,
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qe sapo ishte lyer,
05:37
and where we were in the process of planting trees,
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dhe ku ne ishim ne proces per te mbjelle peme,
05:41
when I saw a shopkeeper and his wife
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kur pashe nje dyqanxhi me te shoqen
05:44
putting a glass facade to their shop.
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qe po vendosnin nje fasade xhami per dyqanin e tyre.
05:48
They had thrown the old shutter
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Kishin hedhur qepenin e vjeter
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in the garbage collection place.
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ne vendin e grumbullimit te mbeturinave.
05:53
"Why did you throw away the shutters?" I asked him.
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" Perse e hodhe qepenin" e pyeta ate.
05:57
"Well, because the street is safer now," they answered.
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"Mire, sepse rruga eshte me e sigurt tani." mu pergjigjen.
06:02
"Safer? Why? They have posted more policemen here?"
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"Me e sigurt? Pse? Kane vendosur me shume police ketu?"
06:07
"Come on, man! What policemen?
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"Hajde pra, shoku! Ca policie?
06:10
You can see it for yourself. There are colors,
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Mund ta shohesh dhe vet. Ka ngjyra,
06:13
streetlights, new pavement with no potholes,
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drita rruges, trotuare pa gropa,
06:19
trees. So it's beautiful; it's safe."
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peme. Keshtu qe eshte bukur, eshte e sigurt."
06:24
And indeed, it was beauty that was giving people
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Dhe me te vertete, ishte bukuria ajo qe po u jepte njerzeve
06:28
this feeling of being protected.
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kete ndjesine e te qenurit te mbrojtur.
06:32
And this was not a misplaced feeling.
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Dhe kjo nuk ishte nje ndjesi e keqkuptuar.
06:36
Crime did fall.
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Kriminaliteti ra.
06:41
The freedom that was won in 1990
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Liria qe u fitua ne 1990
06:44
brought about a state of anarchy in the city,
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solli nje gjendje anarkie ne qytet,
06:48
while the barbarism of the '90s
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ndersa barbarizmi i viteve '90
06:51
brought about a loss of hope for the city.
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solli nje humbje te shpreses per qytetin.
06:54
The paint on the walls did not feed children,
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Boja ne mure nuk ushqente femijet,
06:59
nor did it tend the sick or educate the ignorant,
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as nuk kuronte te semuret, apo mesonte injorantet,
07:03
but it gave hope and light,
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por dha shprese dhe drite,
07:06
and helped to make people see
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dhe ndihmoi qe te bente njerzit te shikonin
07:09
there could be a different way of doing things,
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qe mund te kishte nje menyre tjeter per te bere gjerat,
07:12
a different spirit, a different feel to our lives,
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nje shpirt ndryshe, nje ndjesi ndryshe per jetet tona
07:16
and that if we brought the same energy and hope
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dhe nese ne na solli te njejten energji dhe shprese
07:22
to our politics, we could build a better life
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ne politiken tone, qe mundemi te ndertojme nje jete me te mire
07:26
for each other and for our country.
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per gjithesecilin dhe per vendin tone.
07:31
We removed 123,000 tons of concrete
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Ne hoqem 123,000 ton beton
07:38
only from the riverbanks.
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vetem prej brigjeve te lumit.
07:41
We demolished more than 5,000 illegal buildings
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Ne shembem me shume se 5,000 ndertesa te paligjshme
07:46
all over the city,
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ne te gjithe qytetin,
07:49
up to eight stories high, the tallest of them.
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deri ne tete kate, me e larta prej tyre.
07:53
We planted 55,000 trees and bushes in the streets.
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Ne mbollem 55.000 peme dhe kacube ne te gjithe qytetin.
08:00
We established a green tax,
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Ne vendosem nje takse te gjelbert,
08:03
and then everybody accepted it
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dhe cdokush e pranoi ate
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and all businessmen paid it regularly.
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dhe te gjitha bisneset e paguan rregullisht.
08:12
By means of open competitions,
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Duke perdorur konkurrencen e hapur
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we managed to recruit in our administration
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ne menaxhuam te rekrutonim ne administraten tone
08:17
many young people,
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shume te rinj,
08:19
and we thus managed to build
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dhe me ta ne u perpoqem te ndertonim
08:21
a de-politicized public institution
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nje institucion publik i depolitizuar
08:25
where men and women were equally represented.
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ku grate dhe burrat ishin te perfaqesuar ne menyre te barabarte.
08:29
International organizations
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Organizata nderkombetare
08:32
have invested a lot in Albania during these 20 years,
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kane investuar shume ne Shqiperi gjate ketyre 20 vjeteve,
08:35
not all of it well spent.
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jo te gjitha te shpenzuara mire.
08:38
When I told the World Bank directors
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Kur i thashe drejtuesve te Bankes Boterore
08:41
that I wanted them to finance a project to build
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qe doja qe ata te financonin nje projekt per te ndertuar
08:46
a model reception hall for citizens
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nje salle model per pritjen e qytetareve
08:49
precisely in order to fight endemic daily corruption,
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pikerisht per te luftuar korrupsionin e perditshem endemik,
08:53
they did not understand me.
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ata nuk me kuptuan.
08:56
But people were waiting in long queues
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Por njerezit ishin duke pritur ne radhe te gjata
08:59
under sun and under rain
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ne diell dhe ne shi
09:02
in order to get a certificate or just a simple answer
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per te marre nje certifikate ose vetem nje pergjigje te thjeshte
09:06
from two tiny windows of two metal kiosks.
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nga dy dritare te vogla te dy kioskave metalike.
09:14
They were paying in order to skip the queue,
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Ata pagonin per te anashkaluar radhen,
09:18
the long queue.
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radhen e gjate.
09:20
The reply to their requests was met
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Pergjigjet e kerkesave te tyre vinin
09:24
by a voice coming from this dark hole,
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nga nje ze qe dilte nje vrime e zeze,
09:29
and, on the other hand,
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dhe, nga ana tjeter,
09:33
a mysterious hand coming out to take their documents
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nje dore misterioze qe dilte per te marre dokumentet e tyre
09:38
while searching through old documents for the bribe.
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ndersa ishte duke kerkuar neper dokumentat e vjetra per ryshfetin.
09:44
We could change the invisible clerks within the kiosks,
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Ne mund te ndryshonim punonjesit e padukshem te kioskave,
09:49
every week, but we could not change this corrupt practice.
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cdo jave, por ne nuk mund te ndryshonim kete praktike korrupsioni.
09:54
"I'm convinced," I told a German official
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"Jam i bindur", i thashe nje zyrtari Gjerman
09:58
with the World Bank,
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ne Banken Boterore,
10:01
"that it would be impossible for them to be bribed
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"do te ishte e pamundur per ta te korruptoheshin
10:05
if they worked in Germany,
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nese ata punonin ne Gjermani,
10:07
in a German administration,
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ne administraten gjermane,
10:09
just as I am convinced that if you put German officials
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sic jam i bindur qe nese vendos zyrtar gjerman
10:13
from the German administration in those holes,
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nga administrata gjermane ne ato vrima,
10:17
they would be bribed just the same."
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ata do te korruptoheshin ne te njejten menyre."
10:21
(Applause)
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(Duartrokitje)
10:27
It's not about genes.
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Nuk ka te beje me genet.
10:29
It's not about some being with a high conscience
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Nuk ka te beje me disa qe kane ndergjegje te larte
10:35
and some others having not a conscience.
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dhe disa te tjere pa ndergjegje fare.
10:37
It's about system, it's about organization.
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Eshte per shkak te sistemit. Eshte per shkak te organizimit.
10:40
It's also about environment and respect.
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Eshte gjithashtu per shkak te mjedisit dhe respektit.
10:43
We removed the kiosks.
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Ne i hoqem ato kioska.
10:46
We built the bright new reception hall
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Ne ndertuam sallen e re te ndritshme te pritjes
10:50
that made people, Tirana citizens,
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qe i beri njerzit, qytetaret e Tiranes,
10:54
think they had traveled abroad when they entered
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te mendonin qe kishin udhetuar jashte kur ata futeshin
10:57
to make their requests.
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per te bere kerkesat e tyre.
11:00
We created an online system of control
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Ne krijuam nje sistem online kontrolli
11:03
and so speeded up all the processes.
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dhe shpejtuam te gjitha proceset.
11:07
We put the citizen first, and not the clerks.
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Ne vendosem te parin qytetarin, dhe jo nepunesin.
11:12
The corruption in the state administration
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Korrupsioni ne administraten shteterore
11:16
of countries like Albania --
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ne vende si Shqiperia
11:19
it's not up to me to say also like Greece --
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dhe nuk me takon mua te them per vende si Greqia
11:23
can be fought only by modernization.
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mund te luftohen vetem me modernizim.
11:28
Reinventing the government by reinventing politics itself
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Te rishpikim qeverine duke rishpikur vete politiken
11:33
is the answer, and not reinventing people
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kjo eshte pergjigjja, dhe jo te rishpikim njerezit
11:36
based on a ready-made formula
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bazuar ne nje formule te gatshme
11:39
that the developed world often tries in vain to impose
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qe bota e zhvilluar shpesh perpiqet me kot tu imponoje
11:43
to people like us.
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njerezve si ne.
11:45
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11:48
Things have come to this point
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Gjerat kane arritur ne kete pike
11:50
because politicians in general,
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sepse politikanet ne pergjithesi,
11:53
but especially in our countries, let's face it,
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por vecanerisht ne vendet tona, duhet ta pranojme,
11:56
think people are stupid.
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mendojne qe njerezit jane budallenj.
11:58
They take it for granted that, come what may,
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E marrin per te mireqene qe, le te jete cte jete,
12:02
people have to follow them,
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njerezit kane per ti ndjekur ata,
12:04
while politics, more and more, fails to offer answers
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nderkohe qe politikat, gjithnje e me shpesh, deshtojne te ofrojne pergjigje
12:08
for their public concerns
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ceshtjeve te tyre publike
12:12
or the exigencies of the common people.
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apo nevojave te njerzeve te zakonshem.
12:17
Politics has come to resemble
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Politika ka filluar ti perngjaje
12:19
a cynical team game played by politicians,
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nje loje te nje skuadre cinike te luajtur nga politikanet,
12:23
while the public has been pushed aside
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ndersa publiku eshte anashkaluar
12:27
as if sitting on the seats of a stadium
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sikur te ishte ulur ne stolat e nje stadiumi
12:31
in which passion for politics
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ne te cilin pasionit per politiken
12:33
is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.
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gradualisht po i ze vendin verberia dhe deshperimi.
12:38
Seen from those stairs, all politicians today
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Te pare prej atyre shkalleve, te gjithe politikanet
12:43
seem the same,
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duken te njejte,
12:45
and politics has come to resemble
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dhe politika ka filluar t'i perngjaje
12:50
a sport that inspires more aggressiveness
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nje sporti qe frymezon me shume agresivitet
12:54
and pessimism than social cohesion
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dhe pesimizem sesa kohezion social
12:58
and the desire for civic protaganism.
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dhe deshire per pragmatizem qytetar.
13:02
Barack Obama won
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Barack Obama fitoi
13:04
— (Applause) —
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13:10
because he mobilized people as never before
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sepse ai mobilizoi njerezit si kurre me pare
13:14
through the use of social networks.
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nepermjet perdorimit te rrjeteve sociale.
13:16
He did not know each and every one of them,
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Ai nuk i njihte gjithsecilin prej tyre,
13:19
but with an admirable ingenuity,
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por me nje zgjuarsi te admirueshme,
13:23
he managed to transform them into activists
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ai mundi ti shnderronte ata ne aktivista
13:27
by giving them all the possibility to hold in their hands
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duke iu dhene atyre mundesine per te patur ne duart e tyre
13:31
the arguments and the instruments that each would need
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argumentet dhe instrumentat qe gjithesecilit i nevojiteshin
13:34
to campaign in his name by making his own campaign.
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per te bere fushate ne emer te tij duke bere fushaten e tij.
13:39
I tweet. I love it.
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Une "Tweet" (perdor twitter). Me pelqen shume.
13:41
I love it because it lets me get the message out,
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Me pelqen sepse me lejon te perhap mesazhin
13:47
but it also lets people get their messages to me.
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por gjithashtu lejon qe njerezit te me cojne mesazhe mua.
13:51
This is politics, not from top down,
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Kjo eshte politike, jo prej lart poshte,
13:54
but from the bottom up, and sideways,
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por nga poshte lart, dhe anasjelltas,
13:57
and allowing everybody's voice to be heard
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te lejosh qe te degjohet zeri i gjithesecilit
14:00
is exactly what we need.
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eshte pikerisht ajo qe na duhet.
14:02
Politics is not just about leaders.
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Politika nuk ka te beje me drejtuesit.
14:04
It's not just about politicians and laws.
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Nuk eshte thjesht politike dhe ligje.
14:07
It is about how people think,
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Eshte sesi mendojne njerezit,
14:09
how they view the world around them,
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se si e shikojne boten perreth tyre,
14:11
how they use their time and their energy.
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se si e perdorin kohen dhe energjine e tyre.
14:14
When people say all politicians are the same,
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Kur njerezit thone qe te gjithe politikanet jane njesoj,
14:16
ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush,
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pyet veten nese Obama ishte i njejte me Bush-in,
14:19
if François Hollande is the same as Sarkozy.
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nese Francois Hollande eshte i njejte me Sarkozy-in.
14:23
They are not. They are human beings with different views
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Nuk jane. Jane qenie njerezore me pikepamje te ndryshme
14:28
and different visions for the world.
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dhe me vizione te ndryshme per boten.
14:30
When people say nothing can change,
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Kur njerezit thone qe asgje nuk mund te ndryshoje,
14:33
just stop and think what the world was like
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thjesht ndalo dhe mendo sesi ishte bota
14:37
10, 20, 50, 100 years ago.
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10,20,50,100 vjete me pare.
14:42
Our world is defined by the pace of change.
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Bota jone percaktohet nga ritmi i ndryshimit.
14:45
We can all change the world.
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Ne te gjithe mund te ndryshojme boten.
14:48
I gave you a very small example
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Une ju jap vec nje shembull te vogel
14:51
of how one thing, the use of color,
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se si nje gje, perdorimi i ngjyrave,
14:54
can make change happen.
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mund te beje te mundur ndryshimin.
14:57
I want to make more change
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Une dua te bej me shume ndryshime
14:58
as Prime Minister of my country,
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si Kryeminister i vendit tim,
15:01
but every single one of you can make change happen
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por gjithesecili prej jush mund te beje te mundur ndryshimin
15:05
if you want to.
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nese ti do.
15:07
President Roosevelt, he said,
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Presidenti Roosevelt, tha,
15:10
"Believe you can, and you are halfway there."
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"Beso qe mundesh, dhe ke bere gjysmen e rruges."
15:14
Efharisto and kalinihta.
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Falemnderit dhe naten e mire.
15:17
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Edi Rama - PoliticianFrom 2000 to 2011 Edi Rama was the mayor of Tirana, where he implemented a series of reforms to take back the city for the people.
Why you should listen
Edi Rama has been in politics since the start of the 21st century, but before that he was a painter. It was this deep affinity for light and color that informed Rama's time as mayor of Tirana, when he literally painted the town ... every color. Rama is best known for the removal of government kiosks all over the city, thus cutting down on endemic bribery, and for the establishment of a modern new reception hall for citizens with paperwork requests. Rama's administration also demolished thousands of illegal buildings, removed hundreds of thousands of tons of concrete from riverbanks, and planted thousands of trees and bushes all over the city. Rama continues to serve as a leader of the Socialist Party of Albania.
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