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2023-04-22 10:00:00, Politikë CNA

From childhood to the first meeting with Rama/ Sako confesses: He told me to get

Emirjana Sako, the Mayor of Durrës

Emirjana Sako, the Mayor of Durrës has confessed about her childhood, leaving and returning from Albania and up to her first meeting with Prime Minister Edi Rama.

In the podcasting of Prime Minister Edi Rama, Sako started the conversation with the first meeting in extraordinary circumstances.

She said that she first got to know the head of the municipality when she had just taken up her duties in the municipal council at the time of the tragic earthquake, the prime minister had told her to take the bed and sleep in the municipality.

"I don't think I will ever forget it. The sentence with which we have met, we have been in a zoom meeting because at the time I took the office of the municipal council it was not possible to do activities on the ground due to the pandemic, that is, two overlapping challenges the earthquake and the pandemic and the sentence you gave me you said is: "get a bed and sleep in the municipality now", which was for a person who had just received a task, what a task at a very difficult moment in the city of Durrës, where apart from the earthquake there was also a pandemic. We had never met before. I had not had the opportunity to meet you earlier. It happened in this way", she said, while further talking about her childhood.

"As a child, what I always remember and compare to my children is that we used to go to school alone, that is, without anyone accompanying us. In the first grade, maybe my parents accompanied me, then in the second grade, when I was 8 years old, I had to carry the bag on my back three or four ways until I got to school. I practically remember the school road, from the Library to the former dentists, the school was called "Dalip Tabaku" then, today it is "Jusuf Kuka". I remember, since my mother worked for me at Telekom, I often went to her work to do my tasks and the Kumini neighborhood, which has not had a big metamorphosis compared to what happened in the rest of the city of Durrës. And I definitely remember the road to the beach, to Currilove, so from the house we used to walk through the hill of Vila,

She remembered the mass departures from Durrës, while recounting the sad moment of her father's departure that had left a mark on her life.

"I remembered a view from my house and I remember that the ships standing in the harbor were being driven by people, but I had no way of understanding this, unless something was happening inside my house. So this could just be a sight lost in the eyes of a child, but inside my house he gets ready to leave for Italy. He gets dressed, takes bread with him and waits for a friend so they can both leave. At that time my grandmother was alarmed because of course we knew we had to flee, but not why we had to flee there and we couldn't flee as a whole as a family because we were very young, me and my brother, so it would go only my father Meanwhile, the grandmother begged him to "don't go, you have small children, who will take care of you, your father is paralyzed", etc. But this discussion within the family marked, it left a mark, so to speak, on my memory since I was 8 years old at the time. If my father had started, I believe we would not be talking on this podcast", said Emirjana Sako.

The mayor completed her studies in Rome, but then returned to Albania, an issue she touched upon in her conversation with Prime Minister Rama.

"There, I had to take three vehicles to go to work, I had to carry a laptop for an hour on my back, that is, I would have to change two buses and a subway to get to this studio. I worked all day without a day off to do the same way back and of course in Rome the competition is very big, it's a city which also puts students in front of a block because it has important beauties and so on. There are many architectural studios. There is a lot of competition. There were many architects, who worked as waitresses in the historical center and where they earned many times more than they did practicing the profession and this made me think that in Albania I had more spaces to practice my profession and I definitely had more spaces to work ", she emphasized./ CNA.al