{"id":80663,"date":"2025-10-05T13:50:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T11:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=80663"},"modified":"2025-10-05T15:11:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T13:11:55","slug":"rama-explains-why-he-chose-manastirliu-for-tirana-i-have-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/rama-explains-why-he-chose-manastirliu-for-tirana-i-have-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Rama explains why he chose Manastirliu for Tirana: \u201cI have witnesses\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Ogerta Manastirliu, the Socialist Party\u2019s candidate for the Municipality of Tirana, was the first guest of the new season of Prime Minister Edi Rama\u2019s podcast <\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u201cFlasim\u201d<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> (\u201cLet\u2019s Talk\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">During the conversation, Rama explained the reason why he decided to nominate Manastirliu as the candidate for Mayor of Tirana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cFrom all the surveys we conducted, Manastirliu was the mayor that the majority of people wanted,\u201d said Rama.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cYou know very well that we have carried out continuous surveys and we know what people think about various topics and concerns \u2014 and, in a certain way, we also know how to interpret them. And in this specific case, in all the surveys and in every form of opinion testing, you were the mayor that the majority wanted, with a clear margin over any other name we tested. And I even have witnesses for that. That\u2019s why I had no reason to question it, even though I still would have asked; but this time, it was even simpler.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">I believe Tirana will not only have its first-ever woman mayor in its history, but also a mayor who will be among those people who have made history in this city,\u201d Rama said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ogerta Manastirliu, the Socialist Party\u2019s candidate for the Municipality of Tirana, was the first guest of the new season of Prime Minister Edi Rama\u2019s podcast \u201cFlasim\u201d (\u201cLet\u2019s Talk\u201d). During the conversation, Rama explained the reason why he decided to nominate Manastirliu as the candidate for Mayor of Tirana. \u201cFrom all the surveys we conducted, Manastirliu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":80664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,1803],"tags":[150,243,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rama explains why he chose Manastirliu for Tirana: \u201cI have witnesses\u201d - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/rama-explains-why-he-chose-manastirliu-for-tirana-i-have-witnesses\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rama explains why he chose Manastirliu for Tirana: \u201cI have witnesses\u201d - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ogerta Manastirliu, the Socialist Party\u2019s candidate for the Municipality of Tirana, was the first guest of the new season of Prime Minister Edi Rama\u2019s podcast \u201cFlasim\u201d (\u201cLet\u2019s Talk\u201d). 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