"O wicked, without dignity"/ Rama's clashes with Vangjel Tavo, accusations of vote buying

2024-07-12 13:30:00, Politikë CNA

"O wicked, without dignity"/ Rama's clashes with Vangjel Tavo,

Edi Rama and Vangjel Tavo

Vangjel Tavo is the candidate of the SP for the elections in the Municipality of Himara, which are expected to take place on August 4.

Regarding his candidacy, Tavo said in a television interview that he received the proposal from Edi Rama and accepted it after a conversation with the head of the government.

If we make a comparison with the past, the relationship between them has been fixed and now Tavo is expected to run for the Municipality of Himara, which has changed several mayors in recent years. Before this candidacy, in March, Rama appointed him as the prefect of the Vlora district.

Earlier, between Tavos and Rama, there were no shortage of clashes, insults, accusations and counter-accusations in public.

Tavo's charges on April 27, 2021

Vangjel Tavo, the first on the LSI list in Gjirokastër, reacted after this force could not even secure a mandate in this region in the April 25 elections.

With a post on Facebook, Tavo said that he competed in unequal conditions and there was vote buying, thus targeting the Socialist Party led by Edi Rama.

"I have served you with all my heart, and this has been the greatest pleasure in my public life. As you have witnessed, this battle which has just passed was under entirely unequal conditions. This is by no means an excuse but a fact and a reality which without you. In these unequal conditions, therefore, the electoral victory was difficult to achieve", said Tavo, among other things.

He said that the price for buying the vote had gone up to 500 euros.

"There is talk of 500 Euros, the price has increased. Already, the Lek accumulated from hashish in the past years has taken its toll and will be spent. I tell people to take the Lek because they are stolen or drug Lek, but to cast their votes where they think. The poor should have the stolen money rather than those who have it," he denounced.

April 2021 clash

On April 8, 2021, during the electoral campaign, when Edi Rama inaugurated the reconstruction of Saint Mary's Church in Dropull, Vangjel Tavo, at that time a member of the LSI, attacked Edi Rama.

"O you without a path, you without morals, you without dignity, you without religion! You are panicked about the expected loss and you are wandering around the cemeteries, lying to the dead, but the time of your regime is over", said Tavo to Rama .

There was also a comment from the head of the government, who said: "Vangjo, the baker of Lika's father and Dr. Mona, remembers that he will buy votes again with envelopes and Greek pressure in Dropull".

The murder of Kostandinos Kaçifas

At the end of October 2018, RENEA executed with firearms the anti-Albanian extremist Kostandinos Kaçifas in the village of Bularat in Dropulli.

On October 29, Vangjel Tavo accused the Albanian police of killing the extremist Kostandinos Kaçifas, saying that he did not want to kill anyone, but was defending the cause as a missionary of the interest of his nation (Greek).

He even went to the family of the murdered extremist and came out against the action of the Albanian state.

"Yes, I believe it and I understand the pain! If he wanted to do it, he would have done it. Kacifas didn't want to kill anyone. I don't know what to say... The only thing I want is to call for the boy's body to come at home. As soon as possible", said Tavo.

"O wicked, without dignity"/ Rama's clashes with Vangjel Tavo,

This was a stance against the Albanian government and Prime Minister Edi Rama, where Kacifas was called an extremist.

In connection with these actions, there was also a reaction on social networks from Rama, who said that Kacifas came to provoke, entered, shamed himself and his flag and ran away./ CNA