Prime Minister and leader of the Socialist Party Edi Rama, alongside Ogerta Manastirliu, has gathered MPs, ministers, and members at the Socialist Party headquarters in Tirana.
A day after the Tirana Municipal Council approved the proposal to dismiss Erion Veliaj, Prime Minister Edi Rama gathered the capital's ministers and MPs to begin work on new elections, as he said.
Rama said that the decision came to prevent the capital from being held hostage indefinitely, while he said that in Veliaj's case, the scales of justice have been unbalanced.
"Yesterday, the City Council approved the dismissal of the mayor in his absence of 7 months. Many things have been said and mumbled about this step. It is not worth dealing with those who have fallen on their heads, nor with those who call it a dictatorship when the parliamentary majority is forced to vote on the program after being prohibited from presenting the program to the assembly with the notorious methods of throat blows and elbows, nor with those who failed to defeat Erion 3 times in a row with their pathological fight. Today they are puffing up their chests because of an anonymous letter to an opponent who is tied hand and foot. However, their trial by the media stalls is a completely different topic, as is the imbalance of the scales of justice in the case of the mayor. However, these are topics that we cannot enter.
"Our theme is that a history of justice full of question marks and semicolons should not indefinitely hold the capital and its affairs hostage," Rama said.
Let's start working on the new elections in Tirana. With the right candidate, with the right ability and dedication, and with the right commitment, we will get the right result.
"Ogerta's candidacy has found the immediate support of our political family, where everyone appreciates her and is of one mind, and it is her turn to lead Tirana."
