"As a Gen Z, I really like the shirt you're wearing," how did Neomalësore's clash with Rama start?

Although not yet officially, Marjana Koçeku has not submitted her request to leave the SP parliamentary group, she challenged Edi Rama by calling for early elections and warned him that she has no intention of leaving the mandate she received under the SP banner.

Marjana Koçeku was absent from the Parliamentary Committee for Europe and Foreign Affairs this Tuesday as well.

As can be seen from these images, MP Koçeku has left the chair empty where she was supposed to sit as a member of this committee alongside colleagues Romina Kuko and Ervin Hoxha. Sources from the socialist parliamentary group, contacted by Top Channel, claimed that they still do not have a written request to leave the group, as she stated on Sunday through a Facebook status.

It has also not yet been possible to contact her by phone, a fact that was stated the day before by the group's vice president, Erion Malaj. On Monday, Marjana Koçeku first published a flamingo symbol and then a comment where she appears in a church, accompanied by this message:

"Lord, give me strength, right faith, and sure hope. Do not spare us as a people the spirit of wisdom and understanding, that we may never stray into lost paths."

Her post on the Instagram account with the name "Neomalësore" was reposted by the leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, with the caption "Speaks for yourself."

But why this departure of Marjana Koçek from the SP?

For Top Channel journalist Muhamed Veliu, several independent sources from the Socialists of Shkodra link this action of Marjana Koçeku to June 8, when the leader of the Socialist Party, Edi Rama, was in Shkodra for the 35th anniversary of the Socialist Party, wearing a T-shirt with a flamingo printed on it, an action that was commented on by MP Koçeku.

"Honorable Prime Minister, welcome to Shkodra as Gen Z, I really like the T-shirt you are wearing today..."

This comment, the same sources claim, was at the center of the debate that Rama held in an informal meeting after the event with MP Marjana Koçeku.

Apparently, what Rama said to the 26-year-old MP was not welcomed by her and, as a result, may be the alleged reason for the subsequent statement and then the phone being turned off.

Neomalësorja has recently received an invitation from the coordinators of the “Flamingo” protest, who are increasingly being encouraged to create a new political alternative. Whether Marjana Koçeku will become the first MP to represent the “Flamingos” in the current Parliament remains to be seen.

But sources from the Shkodra socialists raise suspicions that even officials introduced into the administration with her direct influence have been swept up by her pink revolutionary sentiment through supportive posts on social networks.

On condition of anonymity, Marjana Koçek's socialist colleagues claimed to Top Channel that this development, of her transition as an independent MP, was expected if we were to refer to several episodes where the "Neomali" MP has been wavering and not in line with the political decisions of the SP group.

When the draft law on Gender Equality was being discussed and all Socialist MPs were asked to vote in favor, Marjana Koçeku had a communication with the group leaders.

She is quoted as saying that "from a discussion with the local priest, she was told that she should not agree to this bill."

Subsequently, MP Koçeku did not participate in the session where this bill was voted on, informing the group that "her mother was sick"./ TCH