
The Italian media 'Corriere della Sera' has devoted an article to Prime Minister Edi Rama.
The article describes Rama's career from the moment he took over the leadership of the Municipality of Tirana in 2000. The access he had to social networks, the work he did for the country's membership in the EU.
There is also talk of inheritance in politics, where it is said that no "successor" has been appointed.
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When Edi Rama became mayor of Tirana in the late 2000s, when the city was sad, gray, in need of color and above all the river Lana had to be cleaned by demolishing the illegal buildings that had been built there, someone started to feared for his physical safety. According to them, this big man of more than 2 meters was going against the small and big local powers. Above all, he wanted to win over a system that for a decade had been based on extreme illegal construction and corruption. Not only in the capital, everywhere in Albania.
However, Rama already knew something about threats and violence. After months in which he contested in newspapers both parties that arose after the dictatorship – the Democratic (centre-right) and the Socialist – in 1997, some men nearly beat him to death in front of his house. Rama had no doubts about the leader (the then president Sali Berisha, head of the DP, whom he always denied) and after a short period in Paris to recover and do the things he liked (painting) , returned to Tirana. Meanwhile, the situation had changed a little. The socialist government called him to become the Minister of Culture in 1998 and in 2000 Rama was elected by 54% of the residents as the mayor of the Albanian capital. When he started to restore the 'face' of the city, someone also shot at the window of his house, without injuring anyone.
The best president in the world
Four years later, with dozens of buildings repainted in even the most curious ways and with unprecedented attention from the Western media, Rama was recognized as the first best citizen in the world by the "Mayor of the World". And from there the rise to the head of the government has become unstoppable, also because of his pro-Western approach. Edi Rama, writes Wikipedia, born as Edvin Kristaq Rama - where Kristaq is his father's name -, 59 years old, "is an Albanian politician, former basketball player, teacher, painter and publicist, current prime minister of Albania in office since September 2013".
"Memes" on Instagram
Married twice, with two children, the head of the Rama Socialist Party in recent weeks is enjoying the country's success in the tourism front, with tens of thousands of Italians who have "invaded" the beaches of the country of eagles attracted by curiosity and above all by prices stable. So much so that on Tuesday evening he also published a "meme" on Instagram, a photo montage, where with two photos of the landing in Bari of the ship "Vlora" in 1991, he compares Italian tourists with Albanians who landed in Italy after the dictatorship.
ACTIVITIES
Shumë aktiv në rrjetet sociale – “Qeveria ime jeton në modernitet dhe përdor të gjitha mjetet e komunikimit”, thotë ai gjithmonë -, me një opozitë që po përpiqet të gjejë liderin e saj të referencës, kryeministri shqiptar është bërë i njohur jashtë vendit nga njëra anë për gjestet që bien në kundërshtim me trendin e asaj kohe (ai ishte i pari në botë që garantoi azil për refugjatët afganë pas kthimit të talebanëve) ose linjën e drejtpërdrejtë me liderët serbë edhe në mes të tensioneve me Rusinë dhe Kosovën, dhe nga ana tjetër për anën «artistike» si mungesa (në të shumtën e rasteve) e kravatave, atleteve, video-selfie para ndërtesës së qeverisë në Tiranë me kryeministrin e atëhershëm Matteo Renzi, përqafimi tepër i dashur me kryeministren aktuale, Giorgia Meloni, qershorin e kaluar në samitin e Komunitetit Politik Evropian në Moldavi. Ai ishte gjithashtu një nga liderët e pranishëm në funeralin e Silvio Berlusconit.
Marrëdhëniet me Evropën
I dashuruar me Italinë, ai nuk humb rastin të thotë se të dy vendet janë thuajse pjesë e të njëjtit realitet dhe se italianët janë “vëllezër” të shqiptarëve. Në një intervistë për Corriere në 2015, Rama i ftoi edhe ata që të shpërngulen në Shqipëri, mbi të gjitha për të investuar: “Është vendi për ju”. Një evropianist i hekurt, ai ka pohuar prej kohësh se “Shtetet e Bashkuara të Evropës” duhet të ndërtohen sepse “është e vetmja mënyrë për të garantuar një të ardhme për kontinentin”, por çdo herë ai zhgënjehet nga Brukseli që shtyn hyrjen e vendit. në Bashkimin Evropian për një arsye tjetër. Dhe ndër arsyet janë edhe reformat që nuk kanë përfunduar ende – duke filluar nga ajo në drejtësi – korrupsioni që mbetet ende problem dhe një fuqi blerëse që po rritet, por pa e futur ende Shqipërinë brenda vlerave të bllokut të BE-së.
Trashëgimia
Anëtarësimi në komunitetin evropian është ndoshta sfida e fundit e Ramës përpara largimit nga politika. Ata që e njohin mirë shpjegojnë se duan të mbahen mend jo vetëm për atë që e ngriti vendin lart, por edhe për atë që e solli në duar më të sigurta dhe më të besueshme: ato të Bashkimit Evropian. Zyrtarisht, kryeministri shqiptar nuk ka caktuar një “pasardhës”, ai njihet si shumë i rreptë me të gjithë ministrat e tij, por të gjithë sytë janë tek Erion Veliaj, 43 vjeç, kryetar i Bashkisë së Tiranës që prej vitit 2015, ish-ministër i Mirëqenies Sociale dhe Rinisë, që ka studiuar jashtë vendit dhe me një rrjet njohjesh ndërkombëtare për t’u patur zili. Dhe, sigurisht, shumë aktivitet shoqëror./CNA
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