{"id":80666,"date":"2025-10-05T14:14:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=80666"},"modified":"2025-10-05T15:15:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T13:15:45","slug":"rama-veliaj-was-taken-into-custody-without-trial-but-tirana-cannot-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/rama-veliaj-was-taken-into-custody-without-trial-but-tirana-cannot-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Rama: \u201cVeliaj was taken into custody without trial, but Tirana cannot wait\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Prime Minister Edi Rama relaunched his social media podcast <\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u201cFlasim\u201d<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> (\u201cLet\u2019s Talk\u201d) on Sunday, featuring Ogerta Manastirliu, the Socialist Party\u2019s candidate for Mayor of Tirana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Rama began the discussion by emphasizing that the dismissal of Erion Veliaj was a necessity for Tirana, but that his imprisonment came as the result of a questionable judicial process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cOn November 9, the citizens of Tirana and several other municipalities will vote for their mayors. The other elections are completely normal, while in Tirana they are extraordinary \u2014 not because Tirana is the capital, but because the city was left without a mayor due to a brutal development in the justice system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Veliaj was taken from his office without a trial and sent to pretrial detention, where he has been held for months amid a process that, to put it mildly, has questionable standards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Those who question the President\u2019s legitimacy are not to blame; they simply lack the constitutional knowledge of Ilir Rusmali \u2014 the presidential adviser, a former Minister of Justice from the Democratic Party, who resigned and refused to become part of the corruption that degenerated to the point where a macabre tragedy horrified Albania and shocked the world \u2014 G\u00ebrdec,\u201d Rama said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Edi Rama relaunched his social media podcast \u201cFlasim\u201d (\u201cLet\u2019s Talk\u201d) on Sunday, featuring Ogerta Manastirliu, the Socialist Party\u2019s candidate for Mayor of Tirana. Rama began the discussion by emphasizing that the dismissal of Erion Veliaj was a necessity for Tirana, but that his imprisonment came as the result of a questionable judicial process. 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