Exclusive – Rama isolates Veliaj in the municipality, Tirana is led by Manastirliu/ CNA news is confirmed

2024-09-15 10:29:00, Politikë CNA

Exclusive – Rama isolates Veliaj in the municipality, Tirana is led by

Photomontage - Erion Veliaj and Edi Rama

The Prime Minister and head of the SP, Edi Rama, held a closed-door meeting, for about two hours, with the members of the Assembly of Socialists in Tirana.

The leading socialist has given the orientations for the preparations of the electoral campaign, memberships and proposals of names as candidates for deputies.

The two political leaders of Tirana Municipality, Ogerta Manastriliu and Erion Veliaj, also participated in the meeting, while Elisa Spiropali was absent. ( Read here )

Exclusive – Rama isolates Veliaj in the municipality, Tirana is led by

Ogerta Manastriliu and Erion Veliaj

As CNA reported earlier, Rama in the Saturday night meeting, as well as in the meeting of the leadership of the SP and the Assembly, isolated Erion Veliaj, leaving the District of Tirana in the direction of the duo Ogerta Manastirliu and Elisa Spiropali. while Veliaj will deal only with the affairs of the capital, but not with the socialist campaign. ( Read here )

After the meeting of the Presidency of the SP, the Veliaj media reported that the mayor of Tirana would be the political leader of Tirana and the two ladies would assist him. In fact, Rama removed Veliaj from running the campaign in the capital, and CNA has learned exclusively that Ogerta Manastirliu has taken over the leadership of Tirana, while Veliaj is "locked up" in the municipality.

Ogerta Manastirliu

As CNA confirmed earlier, the structures of the socialists in the Municipality of Tirana will be headed by Ogerta Manastirliu, while Spiropali will head the other municipalities. Edi Rama has said that Elisa Spiropali will take over the leadership of Kamza and Vora, the municipalities she has had before. Also, Kavaja and Rrogozhina will be added. The Prime Minister has emphasized that Veliaj will stay in the municipality. ( Read here )

It is learned that at this Saturday's meeting, Rama said that something serious happened in the Municipality of Tirana, referring here to the "5D" affair with the directors , but the leader of the Socialists emphasized that we should not forget how the Municipality was in 2013 when the Socialists came to power. For this reason, he asked Veliaj to deal only with the affairs of the municipality, staying away from the campaign for the 2025 parliamentary elections.

Municipality of Tirana

" Something serious has happened in the Municipality of Tirana, but don't forget how it was in 2013 when we came to power. The image of Tirana Municipality is on the ground, the digital battle is being won by the opposition" , Rama is said to have said at the meeting. Then the mayor Veliaj took the floor, who said: " My plane will now work with two engines ".

After that, it was learned that Rama mocked the mayor by saying : "Lali likes the plane, but it's better to stay at the locomotive." When you fly very high, you don't know how to land on the runway."

Edi Rama and Erion Veliaj

CNA has long emphasized that Rama no longer trusts Veliaj's campaign and reconfirmed this fact at Saturday's meeting at the SP Assembly in Tirana, where it seems that Rama has isolated Veliaj in the municipality, leaving him out of the scope of the campaign. "battle" for the 2025 elections./ CNA