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"Unheard-of scandal", Berisha: Rama blocked Begaj's trip as head of the delegation to Ankara

Politiko 2026-07-08 19:56:53

"Unheard-of scandal", Berisha: Rama blocked Begaj's trip as head

The leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, has accused Prime Minister Edi Rama of preventing President Bajram Begaj from participating as head of the Albanian delegation at the NATO Summit held in Ankara.

Through a reaction on social networks, Berisha describes the event as "a scandal of the highest level", while adding that, according to two diplomatic sources, the protocol documentation sent to the host authorities provided that the Albanian delegation would be led by President Begaj, while Edi Rama would be part of it as a member.

According to Berisha, Rama intervened to change this representation, banning the President from traveling to Turkey, both on the delegation's plane and on commercial flights. He claims that the Prime Minister traveled alone with his wife on a private plane.

Full reaction:

A scandal of the highest level!
Dear friends, yesterday a scandal of the highest level never heard of before occurred. Edi Rama blocked Begaj's trip yesterday as head of the Albanian delegation to the NATO Summit in Ankara.
Although the letter sent to the host protocol authorities according to two diplomatic sources informed that the Albanian delegation was headed by President Bajram Begaj and members Edi Rama etc. etc.
But Rama in an unconstitutional act has threatened Begaj like a bandit and has blocked his trip both on the taxi plane booked by the Albanian delegation and on commercial lines and has left alone with his wife on a plane that according to the media costs tens of thousands of euros per hour of flight.
The Digital Diplomat informs that this trouble started a week ago in Albania when the Turkish Ambassador, according to him, requested a meeting and handed over the invitation to the NATO Summit in Ankara to President Bajram Begaj. The latter, according to the source, tells the ambassador that these are Rama's affairs, so I think the invitation should be sent to him. The ambassador replied that this is determined by the Summit protocol and he is only forwarding the invitation. Rama immediately calls the Turkish ambassador and asks that the invitation be sent to him. Nothing further is known about Rama's interventions with the Turkish presidency. But the letter sent to the Albanian delegation at the Summit, according to the diplomat, was signed by Begaj as the head of the delegation and Edi Rama not as the deputy head but simply a member of the delegation, which meant that at the Summit table in the first place where Albania was written, Begaj would sit, and Rama would sit in the chair behind him, likewise in the family photo in the place designated for Albania, Begaj would be photographed with the other participants as the representative of the country and not Rama.
For all this, Rama, as a gangster, decided to forbid the head of state and the commander-in-chief of the military forces from traveling to Turkey.
I condemn with the greatest force this serious, unconstitutional, bandit act by Edi Rama against the head of state of the country, with which he once again proves the concentration of all powers in his hands.