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Edi Rama's decision to dismiss Erion Veliaj as mayor of Tirana, through the Municipal Council, is necessary for the normal functioning of the Municipality of Tirana, but politically unnecessary, doing so without first asking Veliaj to resign from this position.
Dismissal through the Municipal Council again requires his understanding, as with the legal precedents created in Albania, he is not dismissed.
Edi Rama's decision to dismiss Erion Veliaj as mayor of Tirana, through the Municipal Council, is necessary for the normal functioning of the Municipality of Tirana, but politically unnecessary, doing so without first asking Veliaj to resign from this position.
Erion Veliaj has been in custody since February without charge, and the request for trial was submitted to him yesterday, the day before the meeting of the SP Assembly. It is normal for the capital to have a new mayor in the conditions of the physical impossibility of performing the duty, and Manastirliu is a suitable unifying figure, but the physical impasse and the need for the functioning of the Municipality of Tirana do not have to create a political impasse within the SP.
It is now a public "secret" that there is socialist inspiration in the battle against Veliaj, and this should make the process of replacing him more careful. Prime Minister Edi Rama, in order to show that he has no influence on justice and to expose the damage of a wrong decision-making of the new justice, should have left the political costs to those who made this decision, as well as to their collaborators within the party. Every day, he and the Socialist Party should have explained to the citizens the great damage that this justice is causing to the government of Tirana, as a result of a backstage, vindictive and completely illegal decision-making. In this way, the PS would have found it easier to enter the campaign as a victim of a vindictive justice, united around the victim and not around the executioner - whether these are outside or within the party itself.
Politically, Erion Veliaj has no reason to fight the Socialist Party since his hands are tied, so it would be very simple to obtain his consensus to resign.
Dismissal through the Municipal Council again requires his understanding, as with the legal precedents created in Albania, he is not dismissed.
According to the law, the Municipal Council can dismiss the Mayor if he is absent for three months without reason.
But the precedent of Sali Berisha, who was absent from the Assembly for six months because he was under house arrest, was interpreted by the Albanian Parliament as an absence with reason and his immunity was not lifted, which in this case means that Veliaj is not dismissed either.
Likewise, Fredi Bejleri was not dismissed as mayor due to his absence to take the oath, but was dismissed when he was convicted by the court.
So we are still in conditions where Veliaj can be dismissed from the Municipal Council and accept it without causing a crisis, as he has his own troubles with justice, but we are not in conditions where he can be dismissed against his will, even though they are making it a fait accompli.
And for Veliaj to feel comfortable handing over his duties, the Socialist Party must at least officially distance itself from the inhumane stances of its former minister, Ulzi Manja, who acted as a blind tool of revenge within the SP, to lynch Veliaj in a family-oriented manner and to humiliate him. His dismissal from the Ministry of Justice is not enough. He became a symbol of a disgusting lynching tool against a Socialist Party representative, and has applied double standards with other detainees as well as politicians, under thick lies that he invented himself or offered to him by those who ordered him. As a former minister with a nepotistic network in the administration and corrupt directors under him, he probably felt blackmailed to do what he did, but the Socialist Party must share whether those were its or Ulzi's stances.
This would be worth relaxing the political relations of the detainee Erion Veliaj, who is now being unfairly asked to behave like those hostile groups of the '70s that Enver Hoxha condemned and before being shot said "long live the Party".
So, we are in a situation where Erion Veliaj's legal battle against the Socialist Party is won if he starts it, but it is not worth it. Meanwhile, the Socialist Party values political peace and solidarity with him, so as not to appear as a party of intriguers, ungrateful people, traitors, bigots and careerists who step on each other for a little more money and privileges.
The social experiment that is taking place in the Socialist Party to test how far people's dignity can be violated in order to not speak out is much more serious than the lynching of Erion Veliaj. And if Veliaj's fate is now a problem for his family and friends, the dignity of the ruling party is also a matter of the dignity of Albanian society.
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