Tirana Mayoral Race/ Tabaku answers CNA's question: I know him well, but my battle is in parliament

2025-09-17 09:17:00, Politikë CNA

Tirana Mayoral Race/ Tabaku answers CNA's question: I know him well, but my

After the announcement of Rama's candidacy for the Municipality of Tirana, which he announced would be Ogerta Manastirliu, CNA brought out the two possible candidates from the opposition for the Tirana Municipality race, Ilir Alimehmeti and Jorida Tabaku.

A few days ago, CNA contacted Tabaku to ask him if he would run for Mayor of Tirana, a question he answered on A Krasta Show.

Tabaku has stated that she has a battle in parliament after her election as an MP and does not prefer to leave things in the middle.

"I love Tirana very much, not as the city where I was born and raised, or as a girl from this city. What made me so angry in Tirana was when they called me 'a newbie'. When I took up the battle for MP, I did it for the battle in parliament and I don't leave things in the middle. I will do my best to represent the DP and those who voted for me. The municipality needs to change the system of how it works. And this is not done by changing mayors. The way it works, the head, the structure... it is not solved by removing X or Y from the left. The way they are doing it is so arrogant, keeping the Municipality of Tirana for 4 months. Maybe it is a squeezed lemon and they have no one left to take and generate to put in the Municipality of Tirana. We must change this way of behaving", declared Tabaku, thus excluding the possibility of running for the Municipality of Tirana.

According to Tabaku, even though she knows him very well, the Municipality of Tirana is not in her ambitions. She said that since she shared the last race with him, Alimehemti is a good figure to run for the Municipality of Tirana alongside Manastiruli.

'The DP has good electoral figures. They could be those who received votes from the Primary. The fragmentation of the opposition, the DP minimized. I am not for the Tirana Municipality race, I have won another race 100%. The municipality is not in my ambitions, I know it and I do it very well, my focus is on the parliament. There are many names, I shared the last steps in the race with Ilir Alimehmet, who is a good figure. What is necessary is that in the race everyone stands together against this system. It is not an easy thing to defeat all this, this requires us all to stand up. A candidacy with a team behind us. Citizens ask us to stand up,' said Tabaku./ CNA