Rama denies BIRN news: Statement brutally taken out of context
2025-02-11 17:03:01
TiranaPost
BIRN published an interview with Prime Minister Rama on Tuesday, in which he commented on the arrest of the mayor of Tirana.
BIRN's headline for the interview, quoting the prime minister, was: SPAK has gone off the rails, Veliaj will not be fired.
In a reaction on the social network "X", Rama denies the BIRN news and says that he did not declare that SPAK has gone off the rails.
RAMA'S REACTION:
This tower is from a group called BIRN, which claims to fight for the truth and in the meantime brutally takes out of context the response of the Prime Minister's press office! And now this false headline is being spread everywhere, and then it will be said that he said that... This above is the crazy world we live in. While this below is the statement of the press office in response to BIRN's question about whether Erion Veliaj will be dismissed:
Apparently you did not follow the address that the Prime Minister made to the arrest of the Mayor of Tirana, where we are in completely different conditions from all previous cases. First, because we do not have a concrete corruption case for which there is an indictment, but we are facing a voluminous novel about the excavations carried out in the life of him and his wife. So, in essence, we are facing a case that creates reasonable suspicion of an investigation off the constitutional tracks and a detention in violation of democratic standards. But it is still too early to draw conclusions, so we reserve the right to take time.
Second, the five-year stance of the Socialist Party and the Prime Minister not to make any comment on any specific case has changed with yesterday's dismissal of the mayor of the capital, to lock him in a cell without trial and to lock his wife, the mother of a six-year-old son, in her house. This extremely problematic fact for the entire capital, not only for the mayor as a party to the process, but also for us as guarantors of the Justice Reform and at the same time of contracts with citizens at the central and local levels, even more so for the metropolis of Albania, requires very serious reflection.
And finally, we would be very grateful to you and any media that, instead of simply reading the detective novel of the indictment, shed light on the evidence that supports or not the thread of those nearly 400 pages. In conclusion, the answer is that not only will the mayor of Tirana not be dismissed from office, but from his ban has arisen for us the duty to continue to be steadfast guarantors of justice, promoting as much transparency as possible to get to the truth. Whatever it may be.
