Flamingo Revolution

On 23 May 2026, anti-government protests began in the Albanian village of Zvërnec, near the Narta Lagoon. The protests, which popularly came to be dubbed as the Flamingo Revolution, were triggered by the government's handling of preparatory works and proposed luxury tourism developments linked to the Sazan Island and Zvërnec resort project, backed primarily by American investor Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of United States president Donald Trump. Protesters and local residents objected not only