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2025-11-15 11:05:16 / POLITIKË
Prime Minister Edi Rama commented today on the Constitutional Court's decision and the situation created in the Municipality of Tirana, describing it as unfair to leave the capital without an elected mayor.
Rama stressed that the arrest of the mayor was "disproportionate" and did not justify the institutional vacuum at the top of Tirana.
However, the prime minister underlined the independence of justice: "Justice is independent, thanks to an extraordinary step we have taken to make it independent after 100 or so years."
Rama also commented on the reasons for holding the elections, emphasizing that they were not to blame the mayor, but because he was unable to perform his duties.
Regarding the Constitutional Court's decision, he said that he does not believe it had political influence, but according to him, this decision shows the need for the next step, namely Velija at the head of the Municipality in order to carry out his duties.
"It should have been Mayor Veliaj to present the 2026 budget, but you know the situation well. It is unfortunate, however, there are many things to be sorry about. What is not said in this country. The whole world lives in an atmosphere with dozens of headlines per second on websites, and among the 100 headlines you read, I assure you that 99% are either half-truths or complete lies.
When the mayor was taken from office to be locked in a cell without trial, for the first time I raised my voice for a process of justice, saying that it is disproportionate to the fact that whatever the reasons why justice investigates the mayor, they are insufficient as long as he has not killed anyone and has not been caught red-handed committing a crime, to leave Tirana without an elected mayor.
Justice is independent today, thanks to an extraordinary step that the Socialist Party has taken to make justice independent in Albania after 100 years of statehood.
Then, at all levels where the mayor requested an investigation in a free state, he lost, and when all levels were exhausted, it was the most normal thing to think about the city and the people who also have a very great fundamental right, to be governed by their elected representatives. For this, we took the next step, to open the way for municipal elections. Not to blame the mayor and not related to the fact that he was absent from duty because he had his own reasons, but related to the fact that the mayor, unable to perform his duty, would not become an ever-greater problem for the city.
No city can be governed by remote control or delegation. The city needs the legitimate elected official to lead it. Despite our efforts, we were unsuccessful because the Constitutional Court refused to open the way for elections in Tirana.
A decision that we respect, and I have no reason to believe that the CC has played politics in this case. I have reason to believe that the Court has thought differently, but the court's different opinion leads to the conclusion that when the mayor goes there to ask to be reinstated, he should be reinstated because he himself said that elections cannot be held in Tirana because he is elected.
"Then return him to the office to normalize a situation that is becoming more difficult every day for the capital," he said.
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