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Foreign Minister Ferit Hoxha attracted attention during today's plenary session, not for any speech he delivered, but because he sat in the empty chair of Prime Minister Edi Rama for a few seconds.
Without thinking twice, while talking with Albana Koçiu, Deputy Prime Minister, Hoxha sat in the place of Edi Rama, who was absent from the Assembly hall during the session discussing integration.
But Hoxha's 'joy' of staying in the Prime Minister's chair did not last long, as an employee of the Parliament administration, who seemed to be vigilant at that moment, approached the Foreign Minister, interrupting his conversation with the Deputy Prime Minister, and asked him to vacate the Prime Minister's chair.
"You can't sit here, it's the Prime Minister's chair," the administration employee reportedly said to the head of diplomacy.
It seems that the Foreign Minister is not getting used to the government function in which Edi Rama placed him after the departure of Elisa Spiropali.
In recent days, Hoxha has caused quite a bit of trouble for the Prime Minister, interpreting his 'blunders' as misunderstandings.
In an interview with "Euractiv", Hoxha had hinted that the refugee reception agreement between Italy and Albania would end in five years. This brought reactions, while Edi Rama got involved in a controversy with journalist Eddy Wax, to amortize the Foreign Minister's gaffe.
These statements were widely reported in the Italian press, from La Stampa to Corriere della Sera. Italy's foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, faced with pressure from journalists was forced to defend himself: "2030 is a long way off; let's focus on what we need to do now."
But this was not Minister Hoxha's first blunder, and it probably won't be the last.
In an attempt to serve or show loyalty to Rama, he created a major problem with the Kosovo government and the Minister of Justice, Donika Gërvalla. She had publicly opposed the joint editorial Rama Vučić, who in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” asked the EU for membership in the Schengen area and the Single Market, but without the right of veto and without having ministers in the Commission and MEPs in the parliament. Gërvalla attacked this initiative, emphasizing that “there should be no alternatives for Albania with Serbia that do not pass through Kosovo. The road from Tirana to Belgrade leads through Pristina, both geographically, economically, and in every aspect”.
And Ferit Hoxha, two days after this statement, organized an online meeting with Albanian ambassadors accredited to the countries of the region to order them to stop any official visit by Minister Gërvalla to Tirana. “How can she dare to criticize our prime minister,” said the foreign minister, adding: “you must be careful that Gërvalla is not given any opportunity for an official meeting in Albania.”
Hoxha showed the same carelessness to avoid causing scandals with the same group of ambassadors when he spoke about the Albanians of Macedonia. There, they were discussing an article in the newspaper Nova Makedonia about Edi Rama when the minister wrote: “What are those Albanian idiots saying there?” Naturally, the epithet was addressed to the coalition Vlen në povrt, with whom the Tirana government, which supports the opposition of Ali Ahmeti, does not have good relations. Although after it became public, Hoxha deleted the message both in Tirana and Tetovo, this incident raised a huge uproar.
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