"Traitor, ungrateful, outcast", Rama recalls how he was received in the SP in 2003: Gramozi told me, don't think they are expecting you!

2025-03-21 12:48:52Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
"Traitor, ungrateful, outcast", Rama recalls how he was received in
Edi Rama

For several days, after meetings with the electorate, but also inspecting construction sites, the prime minister has been closing his posts on "Facebook", with a live broadcast in various areas of Tirana where the SP headquarters for the May 11 elections are located.

On Thursday evening, the leader of the Socialists was in unit no. 2, where Ogerta Manastirliu, Arben Pëllumbi and Olta Xhaçka were also present.

As one of the staff members was introduced by Manastirliu as a candidate for the "MP we want" platform, but who failed to officially become a candidate for MP, Rama recalled the time when he himself in 2003, after winning the elections in the Municipality of Tirana, the Socialists refused to register him as a candidate for president of the Socialist Party.

Rama: I am the example, in the first battle for the party they left me on the streets. Do you remember? I had just joined unit 2, to that…what was his name, the head of the organization. Ask Musa Ulqin. I went to the organization, I took Musa.

Manastirliu: I will take Musa

Rama: Here you go. I said to Musa, does your party have an organizational office? Yes, he said, it does.

Manastirliu calls Musa Ulqin.

Manastirliu: Musa, I'm going to show you a little live that we are with the organizational headquarters in unit 2 and we also have the prime minister.

Ulcinj: Just a second.

Manastirliu: Why are you like this? I won't show you with a picture, I'll only show you with a voice.

Rama: Musa doesn't speak to the party without being embarrassed. What was the name of Musa, the leader of the organization in unit two when you took me?

Ulqin: He is still active in the SP. I don't remember his name now.

Rama: I tell Musai that I will join the SP tomorrow. Okay, he said, what did you take me for, this is a joke. I had just won the 2003 elections. Musai told me, no, you don't do that. I told him tomorrow, but tell me how the door will open for me to register. He told me to come to the headquarters. I said no, I want to go to the base. I go there, everyone was happy, they took me in and registered me. These poor people didn't know what was coming to them. They had come once, after three years they'll see, you grow up. I go out to the door and tell them: today I announce my candidacy for SP chairman. In a month the congress was. Oh mother, oh mother. All that request 'come here, go support this, this', completely evaporated and a vacuum was created around. Musai was holding himself together but with a bean he wiped his cheeks. I go to the Conference in Ballsh, where was there to go to the conference? They told me 'you can't get in, you're an ordinary member of the party, you have time, you can't run'. They told me it doesn't count. The conference leadership would meet and make a decision, a big guy there in Fier told me. The leadership met, Arta Dade was inside who was depressed by the danger that was approaching the party. Later she supported me. He comes out with a piece of paper and gives me "the conference decided that you can't get in". They wouldn't let me in. In the end they let me in at all, but Gramozi told me "you'll get in, but don't think they're waiting for you". They called me "traitor, traitor, ungrateful, outcast". I said what's going on? At the end of the congress I didn't have the signatures, 40 signatures were needed in the Congress to get in to run and no one would give me the signature. I was on the steps of the congress, they were passing by, saluting me, saying 'hey, didn't you do anything about the signatures'? "No, I'm waiting". Until in the end they gave me the signatures, pam pam. I got 6%, 40 or so secret votes. There was a blackout for two years. Then things flowed.


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