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The wealth of the Prime Minister/Edi Rama with unclear sources
Edi Rama has been the Prime Minister of Albania for 8 years, and is seeking a third term in office in the April 25 parliamentary elections. He has had a diverse career before getting involved in politics. He has been a professor of painting at the Academy of Arts, a member of the national basketball team, a publicist and the author of two books; “Reflections” together with Ardian Klosi, and “Scapegoat”.
Edi Rama’s involvement in public and political life, began with the movement of the 1990s that overthrew the communist regime in Albania, where he was one of the prominent public voices. After several years away from Albania, Rama entered politics as Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports in the government of Prime Minister Fatos Nano in 1998.
He was elected mayor of Tirana in 2000, and ran the capital for 11 consecutive years. He was elected chairman of the Socialist Party in 2005, and has run it for 16 years. In the first statement submitted to the High Inspectorate of Declaration and Control of Assets and Conflict of Interest, HIDAACI in 2003, Rama declares assets worth 6 million Lek.
Meanwhile, until the end of 2018, family wealth has increased 16 times, reaching the value of 100 million Lek. At the end of 2018, Rama’s family wealth consists of 73 million Lek real estate, 17.2 million Lek bank liquidity, lending in the amount of 9.7 million Lek, vehicle worth 400.000 Lek, and 182.000 Lek in cash.
Family income for the reporting period are 94.3 million Lek, of which Edi Rama’s salary is 27 percent, and income from his wife’s work 38 percent. About 16 per cent of the income is from rent, 9.5 per cent from the artistic work and the sale of the book “Scapegoat” and 8 per cent is from the income created by the son from the sale of works of art.
But from the arithmetic and logical control of 14 years of declaration, one of the statements resulted in problems. After being elected Prime Minister, Rama and his wife re-declare their full wealth in October 2013, which increased by 44.736.099 Lek compared to 2011.
Meanwhile, the resources declared in the relevant sections are insufficient to cover the addition of assets in the amount of 29.641.593 Lek. The statistical analysis of assets made by the investigative network BIRN, also includes two loans declared by Linda Rama in 2010, in the amount of 30.000 euros and 40.000 euros. These loans are not declared to have been repaid by the end of 2018./CNA.al
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The names/ CNA.al reveals the candidates of the SMI list
A day before the submission of the names officially to the CEC, CNA.al has revealed the names of the SMI candidates who will lead the lists of the districts. The SMI led by Monika Kryemadhi will run in a separate coalition, not with Basha’s DP, a scheme to increase the number of seats, or to get as many votes as possible from the left SMI, which could harm the Socialist Party.
CNA.al brings below the main candidates, ie those whom the SMI calls safe. According to the votes received in three pairs of elections with the regional proportional system SMI has had a continuous increase.
In 2009, the SMI and its coalition received 84.000 votes and 4 seats, which they used to join the government with former Prime Minister Sali Berisha. In 2013, in coalition with the Socialists, the SMI received 180.000 votes and 16 seats.
In 2017 alone against the Rama-Basha alliance, the SMI led by Ilir Meta for the third time saw an increase, going 225 thousand votes and 19 seats. The April 25 elections, are the first under the leadership of Monika Kryemadhi, who has ousted many of its founders, leaders and former MPs from the party. The SMI comes up in this election with new names in some counties, but most of the names are the remaining loyalists of Kryemadhi and Meta.
SMI list:
Tirana
-Petrit Vasili
– Klajda Gjosha
– Floida Kërpaci
– Vojo Bregu
– Erisa Xhixho
Elbasan
– Monika Kryemadhi
– Edmond Haxhinasto
Durrës
– Elona Guri
– Bahri Shaqiri
Berat
– Ardit Çela
-Aurela Agalliu
Vlorë
– Luan Rama
Fier
– Monika Kryemadhi
– Kejdi Mehmetaj
Gjirokastër
– Vangjel Tavo
Korçë
– Endrit Braimllari
Shkodër
– Agron Çela
Lezha
– Viktor Tushaj
In Kukës, Dibër, SMI support the DP’lists./CNA.al
Emrat/ CNA.al zbulon kandidatët e listës së LSI
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Panic in Democratic Party/Anxiety and stress about lists
Panic situation among many politicians and names claiming to be part of the Alliance for Change plus DP coalition lists. Although in the former SHQUP building doesn’t have much movement, panic prevails in many names that claim to be in the winning part of the list that Lulzim Basha will submit tomorrow at midnight to the CEC.
Anxiety and stress have also the allied parties that have signed the coalition, but have not specified the locations. Some of them have a problem with Luli Basha, as he has often lied and betrayed them. In panic are many other names that hope to be part of the lists, but looks very far from the winning places like Eno Bozdo, Fatbardh Kadilli, Fitim Zekthi, Andrea Mano, Roland Bejko, Luan Baci, Endri Hasa etc.
These are names, and some of them have always claimed but could never be winners, but also others who have been part of the lists, but most likely are in the red zone or out of the list. There are many other names, but we are not mentioning them. You will understand who they are after their explosion when they learn that Luli Basha left again with her finger in her mouth./CNA.al
Panik në PD/Ankth dhe stres për listat
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DP’s candidates for deputies/ Irfan Hysenbelliu’s list comes out
Today, the daily newspaper “Panorama” has published a list of Democratic Party candidates for the April 25 parliamentary elections. While is expected to be handed over to the CEC on Monday, Irfan Hysenbelliu has hurried to secure everything.
After publishing his personal list and the preferences he has, after solving the problems with the SMI and placing his candidates where he wanted, he has now started to do the same with the DP. In the list below you will see a bunch of names, mainly products of Henri Çili of the European University of Tirana, who stand out at the top of the lists.
The names of the people who have already been made public and confirmed by Lulzim Basha himself, and those preferred by Irfan Hysenbelliu, are from the former officials that Basha had in the Municipality of Tirana, people who work for Hysenbelliu or his businesses, and other Lulzim Basha’s servile.
We are not writing the names of the list, but we are publishing the pages of the newspaper. Meanwhile, we ask the readers not to take the whole list too seriously, as only the part made public by Lulzim Basha is credible. And in this case Irfani Hysenbelliu is not to blame either, because it may happen that the list is overturned.
Although so far, as CNA.al has reported several times almost 50 names, so the winning list of most counties is almost confirmed, except a few small changes in any county. Anyway, read the list of Irfan Hysenbelliu’s candidates. Especially it should be read by democrats, as they will see there people of Henri Çili and the employees of Irfan Hysenbelliu.
Some will run for the SMI, some for the Democratic Party, and in the end defeat seems to be guaranteed. However, we shouldn’t take it so seriously. We must believe and appreciate only the list that is already official. Because the truth is that Luli Basha doesn’t believe him, but neither does Irfan Hysenbelliu./CNA.al
