ZDF report on Albania before the elections: Amid the pandemic and drug money laundering, Rama does not answer us

German television ZDF has dedicated a report to Albania a few days before the April 25 elections.

According to well-known German media, the country is facing a difficult situation created by the Covid-19 pandemic.

ZDF journalists have seen closely how our country is facing the pandemic, and have stopped on the ground how infected patients are being treated in Krumë.

"Shkëlzen Ibra works as a pulmonologist in Krumë and feels above all that the administration is like a kind of administration with shortcomings. The provincial hospital barely provides oxygen supply to about 20,000 people. A catastrophe in this Covid crisis. They are also forced to send patients home, as sometimes they have nothing to do. "We demand more. There were days when we had 12 patients who needed oxygen and we could not give them.

"They fainted from lack of oxygen." That Kruma and the surrounding area is so poorly supplied is in a way the fault of the government. Young people emigrate to make money elsewhere. "Kruma is poor, the capital is far away," the report said.

Rama refuses to answer

The big German media talk about the rapid construction in Tirana, so the television casts doubts that a large money laundering machine is hidden behind them.

"Politicians promise a lot and do little. I confirmed this after this happened to me (after I got the disease). "No minister has come to see what we do, they only come to beg us for votes to come to power", it is written, among other things, in the report of Britta Hilpert of ZDF.

"We do not receive answers to the questions of our interview from Prime Minister Edi Rama. Apparently he fears questions about Covid's management and international criticism of dubious construction projects and corruption in his government.

The prime minister is campaigning wildly, treating the pandemic as a success story, but in the eyes of the German journalist and the facts she has gathered on the ground, everything turns out differently.

The construction sector in Tirana has a big boom, the only one in this economic crisis, but many office towers are empty ".

Journalist Ornela Liperi has done research on this and says that these constructions, as they are going now, are only justified by money laundering, money drugs. The government influences this point also because of the elections.

"The government has never shown the political will to investigate where this money for construction investments comes from. "All these building permits, these giant buildings, make us think that part of this dirty money goes to elections." There have been occasional mass protests against government corruption in recent years, and it is unknown whether this government will be fired for lack of votes, according to political analyst Mentor Kikia.