Kelliçi: A Rama ticket to the NBA costs as much as the monthly pension of 70 pensioners

2024-10-27 14:31:00, Politikë CNA

Kelliçi: A Rama ticket to the NBA costs as much as the monthly pension of

The political leader of the DP for Tirana, Belind Këlliçi, in a statement to the media, spoke with figures showing how much the tickets and gifts that Prime Minister Edi Rama received during his visit to New York cost.

Kelliçi says that tickets to the basketball game, which the Rama family had the opportunity to watch from the front row, in the most expensive seats at Madison Square Garden, cost from $3,600 to $7,260 per person.

Also, Kelliçi has shown the figure that Edi Rama's advertisement on the billboard displayed in Times Square costs 150 dollars for only 15 seconds.

The political leader of the DP for Tirana said that it is up to the justice bodies to find out who are the benefactors who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on gifts and fun for Edi Rama in the USA, as these are just some of the activities that have been discovered by the opposition.

"Yesterday, the head of Europe's first narco-state, Edi Rama, was met with strong protests by Albanian-American patriots in New York, who showed their place to the architect of the massive depopulation of Albania in these 12 years.

First of all, we sincerely thank all those Albanians who, yesterday, joined the call of the Albanian opposition to unmask the head of Narkoshtet Edi Rama, in the heart of the USA, where today his close friend, Charles McGonigal is serving a prison sentence.

Edi Rama did not go to the USA for the Albanians, but Alex Soros' birthday party and the NBA game between the New York Knicks and the Indiana Pacers were the real reasons for this luxury visit.

Today, from this floor we are making a simple request for transparency.

How much are the tickets for the basketball game, which the Rama family had the opportunity to watch from the front row, in the most expensive seats at Madison Square Garden? Who paid for these tickets? According to official online data, these tickets cost between $3,600 and $7,260 per person.

We remind Albanian citizens that this is not the first time that Edi Rama has received such luxury tickets as a gift to attend NBA games in the USA.

We invite you to watch this short video, from January 12, 2016. According to Edi Rama himself, these tickets do not cost because they were reserved. But in the meantime, the truth is that every ticket, even annual subscriptions, has a very high financial cost. According to the Albanian legislation in force, if Edi Rama was offered a gift in the capacity of the Prime Minister, he should not have accepted it. If the gift was given to him as a private individual and that gift exceeds the value of 100 euros, Edi Rama must declare it to the ILDKPKI.

From the data collected so far, in the annual declaration of 2016, Edi Rama has not declared the gift of the NBA game nor the expenses of his private trip to New York.

Also, from the data collected so far, Edi Rama's advertisement on the billboard displayed in Times Square costs $150 for just 15 seconds. Today, Albanian citizens should know how much Rama's activity in New York cost yesterday, starting with his pompous advertisement on the Times Square billboard.

Albanian citizens should know who are the financiers and organizers of yesterday's meeting of Edi Rama, in one of the most famous and expensive halls in the world, in Gotham Hall, 1356 Broadway, in the heart of Manhattan, in New York.

How much did it cost to rent the hall in this area, the sound system, the lighting, the LED lights, the security service and who paid these bills? For all these expenses, the Democratic Party is collecting official information, which will then be forwarded to SPAK, but above all, in the following days, the DP will file all the data for the false statement made by Edi Rama in the statement of wealth in 2016.

It is up to the justice authorities to find out who these benefactors are who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on gifts and fun for Edi Rama in the USA, as these are just some of the activities that have been discovered by the opposition.

In the meantime, I find the opportunity to invite Albanian citizens to join the DP's call for civil disobedience on Tuesday, October 29, at 5:00 p.m.

Oh today, oh never", declared Kelliçi./ CNA