Kalemaj "slaps" Veliaj's defendant's lawyer: He wanders from studio to studio to do public defense

2026-05-19 22:01:00, Aktualitet CNA

Kalemaj "slaps" Veliaj's defendant's lawyer: He wanders from

Political scientist Ilir Kalemaj has stated that the mayor arrested on 13 charges for 5 serious criminal offenses, Erion Veliaj, is known for the favors he did in the media, either directly or by employing over 80 people employed in the Municipality of Tirana in various roles for media coverage.

Invited to the show "A Krasta Show", Kalemaj criticized the fact that Veliaj's defendant lawyer, Plarent Ndreca, roams from studio to studio to make public defenses while the defense is being made in the courtroom.

He has stated that he pays the lawyer to defend him in court and not in television studios.

Kalemaj stated that Veliaj continues to do marketing using the media even from prison.

"His lawyer wanders from studio to studio doing public defense, while he has a case of his own in SPAK, and while the case is being defended in the courtroom. So, there you pay the lawyer to defend you in the courtroom, not to defend you in the television studios. The third thing is what you just mentioned, that Mr. Veliaj was known for the favors he often did in the media world, either directly or by exercising over 80 people employed in the Municipality of Tirana in various roles for media coverage, because a person who works with a shovel needs three photographers, two spokeswomen and three cameramen, in order to clearly reflect his work. And in this sense, this marketing continues even from, from prison at these moments, while Tirana is misgoverned, Tirana is not being governed.

"Tirana, where almost half of Albania lives today and is half of the country's economy, is a giant dormitory that guarantees neither the basic functionalities of a person's life, nor clean air, nor the incinerator that has not even begun to turn the first shovel and is still pushing back the deadlines, nor the Shara mountain that competes with the Dajti mountain, nor the potable water that has been promised at least five or six times in every local or general election that will be 24 hours long," said Kalemaj./ CNA