Blendi Gonxhe, the new minister of old avazas

2024-01-08 17:54:00, Aktualitet CNA

Blendi Gonxhe

Today, Prime Minister Edi Rama announced the appointment of Blendi Gonxhe as Minister of Economy, Culture and Innovation.

The formulation of this post comes by taking from the Ministry of Finance that of the Economy, by merging the Ministry of Culture of Elva Margariti, which is out of the game, and by joining Innovation, the ministry merged by Rama in his second term.

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Blendi Gonxhe is one of the students of December '90, but more of a new minister of old avazas.

Edi Rama has already configured the government almost entirely with the former vice presidents, directors or collaborators he had in the Municipality of Tirana.

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The facts are that the parliamentary group is also composed of people that Rama had from 2000 to 2011, that is, for 11 years when he led the capital's Municipality.

At that time (Rama's first term as mayor) Blendi Gonxhja left office after flooding Tirana in September 2002.

View from the flood of Tirana in 2002

Tirana, September 2002

Tirana 2002

Rama was outside and the opposition accused Gonxhe of carrying out the order of the then acting mayor Edi Rama, to open and test the gates of Tirana's lake, causing a damage of millions of euros, with thousands of drowned businesses, going to the threshold of a tragedy.

Gonxhe has had many accusations from the opposition during the time he was the deputy mayor of the municipality of Tirana, at the time when Rama led the municipality of the capital.

Then Gonxhe left for Greece, where he developed an activity related to bus transport and on the other hand he returned to Albania, with the arrival of the socialists in power.

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The opposition has been quite harsh towards him as soon as he assumed the position of General Director of the Road Transport Service, after being overshadowed by Prime Minister Rama for some time. The funerals of two old friends have now ended.

Gonxhe is appointed to an important post. A task with great responsibility, which seems to be given to a new minister with old credentials, he is not an unspoken person, he is not a person without accusations or without benefits until his collaborations with the incinerator companies, with the companies with rental cars and others, for which he has often been accused by the opposition. It's just that recently it was left in the hands of Klevis Balli, this was the biggest weight that PD gave to him.

Gonxhe is not an unknown name. A Decemberist who has always remained in Rama's service, to survive the time by leaving once in Greece and now returning to the top of power as one of Edi Rama's most important ministers with the new changes that the prime minister announced today./CNA