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The phone call that didn't happen, how Rama-Veliaj ignored him in the last moments in the office

Politiko 2025-02-14 15:44:47

The phone call that didn't happen, how Rama-Veliaj ignored him in the last

Edi Rama's elegy for Erion Veliaj is becoming more and more ridiculous day by day as new facts come to light. A well-informed source from within the Tirana Municipality, who was with Veliaj on Monday afternoon, tells Lapsi.al a previously unreported episode.

An episode that reveals a lot about the behind-the-scenes of the decision that led to the mayor's arrest. The SPAK people who went to Veliaj's office, after presenting the communication of the reason why they were there, asked him to follow them. But Veliaj initially resisted, expressing quite a bit of surprise at what his eyes were seeing and in an attempt to gain some time, he immediately called the Secretary General of the Municipality of Tirana, Alban Dokushi, who a few weeks ago held the position of Legal Director of the municipality, to his office.

Veliaj asked him to read the decision that the SPAK officers had brought. And while Dokushi was reading this decision, Veliaj took his cell phone and started calling the only person who at that moment when his "world was collapsing" he thought could save him, namely Prime Minister Edi Rama. The calls to Rama's number continued several times, but in vain. No one answered the other end of the cell phone.

Apparently tensed that the call was not being made, Erion Veliaj began sending written messages, the content of which only he and Edi Rama know. The decision was read out in the meantime by Veliaj's director and there was nothing more to be expected inside his office. The officers asked the mayor to go after them so that they would not use force.

At their suggestion, the source told Lapsi.al, they told Veliaj to keep an empty file in his hand so as not to arouse any suspicion among people or the media outside the municipality. And so it happened. Veliaj then got into the SPAK people's car to be isolated in detention at "Mine Peza" and the images were what we all saw.

But let's go back a little to the phone call that didn't happen inside his office and raise some questions. Why was Edi Rama the one who called Erion Veliaj? Why didn't the prime minister answer his phone call? Was the leader of Rilindja aware in advance of what was expected to happen on Monday afternoon? Why had Rama chosen to flee Tirana that day and, after his arrest, the news that he had suddenly canceled his meeting agenda in Shkodra was quickly spread in the media?

There may be many strange coincidences and coincidences here, but if we start from the premise that we have repeatedly said, that SPAK is a tool in the service of Edi Rama to hit his political opponents, we come to the conclusion that the prime minister was aware of what was expected to happen to Erion Veliaj and specifically chose not to answer the phone. Perhaps because Edi Rama himself no longer had any power to stop his arrest or, as other voices say, he simply did not want to save him.

One could rightly say that perhaps at that moment Edi Rama was busy with other meetings and had no time for Veliaj. But the truth is that the prime minister was not in a face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump, simply with Bennett of Shkodra. Erion Veliaj was not a regular contact in Edi Rama's phone book.

In any case, he had priority when calling the prime minister or sending messages. And not one call, but several consecutive calls, the source said. Rama did not find Veliaj in his last moments of freedom before heading to the cell. An unfortunate coincidence or an episode that tells a lot about the truth of the Rama-SPAK-Veliaj triangle./Lapsi.al