Lapaj and Shabani, the young or the old of politics?

2025-07-19 15:31:00, Editorial CNA

Adriatik Lapaj and Endri Shabani are two characters who have become public from a single political line, their origin is the Red and Black Alliance. Both were leaders in this party, at the time founded by Kreshnik Spahiu .

Lapaj and Shabani part of the Red-Black Alliance

They were young and it all started after 2010, about 15 years ago. Young or old, it's not about age, it's not just about when they entered politics, but also about behavior.

CNA has often been critical of Lapaj for hundreds of thousands or millions of euros, for a campaign all over Europe, activities, expenses, which raised many questions. Halls that cost from 5 or 10 thousand euros an hour, hotels, planes, expenses even across the ocean, in the USA or Canada, totally undeclared or fictitiously stated with figures and values, which are completely unbelievable.

Veliaj's Llapaj continues his tours with staggering undeclared expenses
January 30, 2:50 PM

Further, Endri Shabani appears as the leader of a party that has never held elections. The party initially started as a social media page of a pickpocket, a former thief of the LSI, who then never appeared again, leaving Pano Soko and Endri Shabani there, who had come from the Red-Black Alliance.

Endri Shabani confirms/ I am the chairman of the Thurrje Initiative
November 30, 19:23

While Lapaj founded "Albania Becomes." Two movements that were known in public opinion as the new opposition, as people with integrity, young people, would bring a different mentality.

Adriatik Lapaj presents the new political movement "Albania becomes"/ Main points of the program
September 18, 19:56

We saw them as funny during the campaign, yes, yes, funny. Albanians said how these people were ranked on the list, why they didn't put their names at the top, why they don't lead themselves, why they don't draw lots, who is first and who is second, Shabani and Lapaj, because they declared that they would get more than 70 mandates or there would be no Rama government without the mandates of the "Albania Becomes" Initiative. Once they said that they would govern themselves, then they said that they would be the ones to keep Rama in power.

The new Karagjos of politics
January 21, 14:13

Now, recently, they have become like circus clowns, charlatans and political swindlers, fighting over who will get a seat in Parliament. They only secured one mandate in Tirana, they couldn't get one anywhere else.

"They will not receive any mandate"/ Lapaj attacks Shabani
July 16, 17:51

A party without a center, two driven individuals, who came from the same party, the clear goal: to harm the opposition. Of course, it wasn't just these two, there were other currents that received between 150 thousand and 200 thousand votes in total, dealing a major blow to the Democratic Party , the real opposition in Albania, the truth, which beyond the votes that these political clowns received, has even greater responsibilities for the result it received.

Where did the DP votes go?!
May 22, 16:03

Let's stick to these two characters, Lapaj and Shabani, who have been making fun of for days with threats, swearing, and insults. The ones who released videos when people asked why they weren't at the top of the list, and laughed, made fun of people .

Pano Soko and Adriatik Lapaj, before May 11

They said we have put our people and cousins that we are sure, we will get so many mandates. This shows political ignorance, somewhere ignorant, as if on purpose . Now we are seeing them become disgusting in public opinion, once with their uncle, once with their cousin. Someone resigns from resignation, someone does not resign. They declare that they have made an agreement, "I am the first, you are the second, why should you take it, when he can take it" .

Lapaj's mockery: I put my father on the list so that I could win
March 13, 12:41

These are, with this mentality. They are just as old, they don't care, from which part you want to call outdated, the opposition or the oppressive government of Edi Rama, who has filled the prisons full of ministers and officials. They have the same mentality. They don't have any great goal, to come to power because they love Albania .

Look at how they behave, now that they are nobody, imagine if they had taken power. Rama would seem like a flower to Albanians, while these people would be the cherry on the cake of oppression, scandals, and incompetence that Albanians read by not voting for them en masse, but by leaving them with a mandate to see, to know in detail their true face, their outdated mentality, not only their selfishness, but their dilettantism.

Shabani's uncle changes his mind: I want Lapaj's mandate
July 16, 17:37

The "whatever flies, eats" delirium and these smart people of the world, who would drag Albanians with words and nonsense, with rallies and meetings, which have now ended in a banal quarrel, a public quarrel for a deputy's mandate, which in fact should not go into the hands of either Shabani or Lapaj , but whoever is on the closed list deserves to be in Parliament because they are more civic-minded, with a more rational mentality, more truthful than these two political clowns, whose skin we are seeing every day is worth their weight in gold.