Those who illegally dismissed him on the orders of Edi Rama, today ate the shame with bread and sent a request to the Special Prosecution Office to release Erion Veli from prison, because they want him for the meetings of the Municipal Council. The same ones who joined the votes with the DP advisors to dismiss "Lali Erin" from the mayor, those who turned their backs and abandoned him by laying out the red carpet for Ogerta before she even handed over her mandate as an MP, today they have sent a letter to Erion Veli himself saying that they find it impossible to approve the budget without his presence.
Is it true that Erion Veliaj has been with pen and paper all these years calculating budgets and dealing with Tirana's affairs? No, no. We all know that this is another bargain within the socialist plundering family.
Since the Constitutional Court's decision ruined Edi Rama's plans to hold elections in Tirana, Tirana now needs Erion Velina on its feet for a while longer. After the Prime Minister asked the Constitutional Court to reinstate Erion Velina and this request fell on deaf ears, today he has put the dice of the Municipal Council to ask SPAK to have Veliaj be under his orders full-time in Tirana. This is also to minimize the successive crises of the government.
Only, every now and then in the municipalities there should be a lawyer to explain to the municipal councilors that the decision on the mayor's freedom is made by the Special Court. And on top of all that, Erion Veliaj can also exercise his function from Durres, where he has been for several months.
As for these municipal councilors who once illegally dismiss him together with the PD and another time pamper him on Rama's orders — this is the clearest picture of institutional degradation in Tirana: a municipal council that does not function according to the law, but according to the pulse of the prime minister's day. They dismiss, appoint, demand, withdraw, as part of a theater where the citizens of Tirana are simply spectators without the right to vote.
Ultimately, the same question remains: is there any institution in this country that functions according to the law and not according to orders? Because this movement today, by those who until yesterday considered Veliaj "finished", has nothing to do with the budget, with the civic interest or with the administration of the municipality.
It is only about interests within a closed political club, where players change positions according to what the coach tells them. And Tirana, a city of almost a million inhabitants, continues to be held hostage to deals that have nothing to do with it.
