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Teliti: Tirana Municipality could not continue to be run with Veliaj's model

2025-11-03 11:02:00, Politikë CNA

Teliti: Tirana Municipality could not continue to be run with Veliaj's

The Deputy Mayor of Tirana City Council, Dorjan Teliti, commented today on the recently held trials for the arrested former mayor Erion Veliaj.

Invited to "Syri TV", Teliti stated that with the decision of the Municipal Council, the public's interest was for Erion Veliaj to leave an hour earlier.

Teliti said that the Municipality of Tirana could not continue to be run by the 'Veliaj' model, which was involved in several corruption scandals during his mandate.

"The Municipality of Tirana could no longer continue to be run with the Veliaj model. It could no longer continue to be run by Veliaj himself and it cannot be run today by Veliaj. By a person who is a resident of Durrës. I am not saying the Durrës prison, because it also seems to have a negative connotation. It is unavailable. It cannot. Tirana today stinks. Tirana today is drowning in traffic. Tirana today is without schools, without kindergartens, without nurseries. And you are talking to me about the legal aspect. The legal aspect is very important. Those who have taken the step will solve it. I repeat once again, we did our best to ensure that this legal aspect was respected. We did our best, because we have officially requested it, so I am saying, you should not only attend the Municipal Council meeting. You should attend the 96 hours before the Municipal Council meeting, until the meeting is over. We have been told off with official statements before the municipality, with statements from the party headquarters, the Democratic Party, We requested that Erion Veliaj come to the courtroom, to reflect the decision with the other violations. We have requested.

Now that they don't want to, what will we do? We will fall into their trap, we will already become prey to their game, that since they don't want to fulfill the legal aspect, we should not remove Erion Velina, after a battle of several years and knowing that Erion Veliaj has come to power for a third term with the votes of 5D? What will we say? What will I say again and again, what would the Albanian citizens, the citizens of Tirana think of us? If we were to come after such a long battle, after the 2023 elections, after the denunciation that we have made of the corrupt, clientelistic schemes, 5D and so on, after those who demolished the theater, where do they have a decision of the Constitutional Court. Those who sign, the one who signed for who took a decision of 96 million euros of financial obligation without asking the Municipal Council, where do they know about economics, the mayor himself cannot give. What would the citizens say about us tomorrow? Whose interests are we protecting? We will first protect the interests of the public. And the public interest was for Erion Veliaj to leave an hour ago.

And we did our best to make his removal as legal as possible, to make it completely legal, as you say. But if the other side does not want it and has the cards, then the position we have held has been a political position, abdicating our responsibility regarding the procedure followed, which was again incomplete and I said it inside the meeting hall of the Municipal Council. I also said it in the official speech I gave in the Municipal Council. I raised this concern, what you say. The decision should be completed, the decision should be made legal. Yes, but what is necessary, Erion Veliaj should be removed and he should be removed, he should be removed with ceremony from the management of the Municipality of Tirana, he should be removed and we have done the best thing, the political decision-making for his removal. In the procedural aspect then, I repeat once again, we did our best to make that decision as legal and as constitutional as possible. But if the majority won't do this, what will we do, will we fall prey to the majority? No, absolutely not. We have held 44 protests, sir, without a break, without any, every Friday. It was raining, it was sunny, it was 0 degrees, it was 44 degrees, it didn't matter to us at all. Just for the sake of those citizens who have, have, have, protested with us. Of those democrats whose votes were diverted in the 2023 elections. Who were raped by the 5Ds and their friends. For those theater protesters who sat there for months and months and watched the theater collapse, while they were still beating the national flag. We are, well, the situation, we are representatives of the citizens.

Then and I repeat once again, if the majority decides to allow paths and spaces for Erion Veliaj to give compensation money tomorrow, will we fall prey to the majority? Did we, the question is, did we have the power to change the majority's decision with our vote? No. Because if we had the power, we wouldn't wait seven months, sir, no. We would have dismissed him before. With proper legal motivations, though. Not simply for a quarterly absence. And for other violations, because in my opinion and here there is no need for lawyers, the Municipal Council only needed a five-minute session to ascertain the famous letter that Erion Veliaj signed on behalf of the Municipal Council without convening the council. And the moment it is ascertained, you know it very well as a lawyer. That's enough, taking the powers of another institution is an abuse of office and you are dismissed from office. If anyone had done this, they would have been dismissed, it would have been with, it would have been a ceremonial prison sentence. "If that wasn't their intention. Now will we fall prey to their intention? Because they want to leave a window open for Erion Veliaj, when he gets out of prison tomorrow with a Strasbourg decision, to receive several hundred thousand euros, to receive thousands of euros in damages, compensation. In addition, how many millions of euros of damage are caused to Tirana by the presence of the Veliaj model in the Municipality of Tirana?", said Teliti. /CNA





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