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Albana Koçiu candidate for Tirana Mayor?! Balluku comes to support her, but the socialists see it as a defeat

2026-11-14 19:11:46Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Albana Koçiu candidate for Tirana Mayor?! Balluku comes to support her,
Rama, Koçiu and Balluku

The appointment of Albana Koçiu to the leadership of the Socialist Party in the Municipality of Tirana appears to be only the public phase of a process that, according to Vox News sources, has been going on behind the scenes for several weeks.

Sources within the Socialist Party indicate that Belinda Balluku has been working with socialist structures in Tirana for about three weeks, seeking their reorganization and mobilization in the context of the upcoming battle for the capital.

According to the same sources, Balluk's movements had as a political objective the strengthening of Albana Koçiu's position, in order to convince Edi Rama as one of the names for the upcoming race for the Municipality of Tirana.

This, according to information from Vox News, is also one of the main reasons why Rama placed Koçi in charge of the capital's socialist structures.

The formal decision was made public during the Socialist Party's National Assembly, where Albana Koçiu and Ervin Demo were proposed as co-chairs of the Socialist Party for the Municipality of Tirana.

In public, the SP has not yet officially announced its candidate for the Municipality of Tirana. Even Taulant Balla stated in the Assembly that the party should conduct a selection process and choose for Tirana the candidate who, according to the SP's assessment, maximizes the electoral result.

But within the structures, according to Vox News sources, Koçiu is being strongly supported by Balluku, as it is said in the corridors of the SP that she has her soldier sworn to place him at the head of the Municipality of Tirana.

This very election has also opened a strong debate within the Socialists.

Vox News sources indicate that a group of SP figures are not convinced that Albana Koçiu is the candidacy that guarantees the party the result it seeks in Tirana.

One of the most critical voices has been Pandeli Majko. During internal discussions in the Assembly, Majko raised concerns about the electoral situation of the Socialists in the capital and warned that the situation is much more problematic than it is being presented publicly.

"I want to say something that none of you have the courage to say, but you all think: We have lost Tirana. If elections are held today, we will not win ," Majko said after Rama's pumping of Koçiu.

But Majko's concern was not limited to him. Other socialists have also expressed reservations about the way the strategy for Tirana is being built and about the name that could represent the SP in the mayoral race.

What is now clear even from the Socialists' public communication is the importance that Tirana has taken on in the SP's strategy for the local elections of May 9, 2027.

During the Assembly, it was requested that the main attention of the structures be focused on the capital, while socialist leaders have spoken openly about intensifying organizational work and presence in the field.

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