The "Fight" for the Leadership of Tirana/ Teliti: The Municipality Has Two Mayors, Veliaj and Rama

2025-03-20 17:20:00, Politikë CNA

The "Fight" for the Leadership of Tirana/ Teliti: The Municipality Has

The Deputy Chairman of the Tirana Municipal Council, Dorian Teliti, said today that officially and unofficially, the Municipality of Tirana is led by two mayors, Erion Veliaj and Prime Minister Edi Rama. Teliti said that Rama has taken on powers that do not belong to him.

In a television appearance, Teliti stated that the municipality is in an absurd situation, as even the members themselves do not know who is in the mayor's office.

Teliti said that this is an internal struggle of the Socialist Party.

Teliti added that recent times have been filled with various scandals and great injustices beyond imagination.

"Rama took the de facto powers of the mayor of Tirana. Erion Veliaj is now waking up and has understood where this problem came from. He has understood that the internal war has eaten away his political mind and years of life, he is raising his voice against a war of the strong, a political war within the SP, which is the clearest indicator of the governing model where Tirana and Albania are headed. Today we have 2 mayors, Rama and Veliaj in prison, two deputy mayors, a stalemate that we had never seen or heard before.

The municipal council does not meet, zero information, the majority usurps with the violence of the cardboard and does not hold a meeting of the municipal council. The de facto mayor or the de jure one, we are in an absurd situation, even we councilors do not know who is in the mayor's office, who we will address. In the morning we talk about European integration, and at lunch and dinner we talk differently.

There is an internal war that is not the opposition's war. Our war is to make Tirana livable, with clean air, with proper infrastructure, with schools and kindergartens. Disaster for Tirana, they are discussing who should hold the keys to the municipality, they are fighting within the group. Our eyes and ears have seen various scandals, but to duplicate them within one institution and one political group means that their oppressions are so great that our imagination cannot imagine and quantify them", said Teliti. /CNA