The truth about nude photos/ Rama speaks: I was asked for money, I told the secretary it's not the first time she's seen

2023-05-09 22:45:00, Politikë CNA

The truth about nude photos/ Rama speaks: I was asked for money, I told the

Prime Minister Edi Rama

Prime Minister Edi Rama spoke this evening about a photo published years ago, where the head of the government was photographed on a nude beach.

Rama said that he had the photos in his car, but someone had taken them and demanded money in exchange for them.

The head of the government said that he had not agreed to give money and photos were published in a newspaper. He confessed that all this happened while he was in the electoral campaign.

He stated on the show of the former deputy Duma that at first he wanted to say that they were a montage, but when he was confronted by people he admitted that the photos were real, thus gaining more popularity.

Excerpt from the statement:

I was definitely worried, it was a box of photos of all kinds, which I had left in the trunk of the car with other things because I am very careless, thankfully since I have become disciplined in life and have a man who looks after me in the most extraordinary things. One fine day my phone rang and I picked it up, someone told me look in a disturbing voice, you have to get ready to pay because you have the campaign ahead of you, I didn't understand what he was saying, I told him who you are, he said you will understand, but be prepared to pay well.

This call happened after 10 days and I was prepared in the second case to answer him in French and he tells me don't be brave if you don't pay me, all the women, all the chicks and all the families of this country will be horrified. He asked me to pay because the women will be horrified and at one point I had a flash of the photos, I looked for them and couldn't find them. The car had gone to a place and there the things had been lost and so I had a preparation. When the thing came, they left it in an envelope, I said I don't pay anything, do whatever you want, there was no question of paying because I hadn't done anything.

I thought it was the pictures, but I didn't know for sure. The envelope arrived, I was on the campaign trail, the head of the organization called me and told me where you are, you should definitely come and that's when I understood. I told him don't worry, it's not like you're seeing it for the first time, he said it's not funny. I shared my mind that I had to face the truth, I told him it's a montage, but I was dying to hide this thing. I was at a nudist beach with my girlfriend. I was a free man, I didn't leave the campaign in the middle to run away there. I have always had faith in Albanians, they are sharp even for certain things that people can discuss and they have a strong instinct about who is right.

At this point I was saying what is this at the end of the day, all the people would say what he has done. It wasn't easy, I got the word that had gone in a newspaper, it wasn't easy. They grew up there, that we do polls, the pictures widen the gap. The agenda was that I would have a meeting with young people in a disco, it was just before lunch and about 200 young people had gathered there and I told them, today they released some photos of me that I took when I was with my girlfriend there and they think that by entering into my private life, they harm me.They all burst into applause and when I was leaving it was one of these typical people and he told me you are great, that I had made up my mind, but I wanted to hear what you were going to say and if you had said it was a montage you would have forgotten my vote. I think Albanians are very sharp and adaptable./ CNA.al