The opposition's trap with lobbying, and the pit where Rama's media 'heads' sank

Armand Maho

The SP campaign has become tiresome and boring. Edi Rama's jokes not only don't go anywhere, but have begun to be seen as the rants of a mentally ill person who, unable to cover the sun, takes out his anger on the "shoshë".

This also happened on Sunday at the Vlora meeting, when women and girls voting for the first time were shown the straw on one side and the "cow" on the other.

I don't know how husbands and fathers felt as they watched the prime minister speak with such banal vocabulary.

This has exceeded all limits and is no longer a matter of "making ends meet".

Amid this political turmoil, it seems that Edi Rama thinks he has found a "casus". This is the contract that the Democratic Party has signed with Continental Strategies, a company very close to President Trump, as it was founded by Trump's lawyer and advisor, Carlos Trujillo, while part of its senior structure is also Katie Wiles, the daughter of Susan Wiles.

The latter holds the position of chief of staff in the Trump administration, and together with Chris LaCivita, they were the masterminds behind his victory in last November's elections.

Rama's political and media cronies, who are always ready to capture every target in the opposition's electoral campaign, as soon as the news came out on a website that usually denounces government scandals, thought they had "hung the ram's head", and now it was time to ambush the opposition.

But, although they consider themselves enlightened, starting with Fuga and ending with Carlo Bolino, no one thought for a moment whether this was something the opposition had wanted to publish itself. Here's why!

First, no one asked themselves why this contract, signed on April 4, was made public only 20 days later.

Second, why was a company so close to President Trump selected, notably including Katie Wiles, the daughter of Susan Wiles, Trump's chief of staff, who has closed the door on Rama's every attempt to approach the American administration, labeling him a "puppet of Soros"? (I believe you remember the Munich Conference).

Not to mention Alberto Martinez, former chief of staff to Senator Marco Rubio, also part of Continental Strategies.

Immediately after Rama's deputies raised the alarm, SPAK also entered the game, issuing an announcement that it "will verify this issue."

But, as far as we know and have seen, SPAK is not a verification institution, but an investigation.

On the other hand, the contract is registered under FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) — the Foreign Agents Registration Act in the US. This is completely outside the jurisdiction of SPAK.

The contract has the name and surname of the person who signed it. It is not some verbal agreement "à la Bilal Shehu" or some Charles McGonigal-style affair that would cause a violation of the law.

So, we are dealing with a hasty and completely political action by SPAK, which stands with its rifle raised to find the "needle in the haystack" in the opposition, while remaining silent about the real files: Arben Ahmetaj's accusations, the Llogara tunnel, Bechetti's 130 million euros, tenders in healthcare and roads, money laundering in construction, and many others.

The point is, personally, I have made a public denunciation of the affair of the theft of public lands in the village of Vuno, in which the prime minister is directly involved, with irrefutable evidence of document falsification and criminal organization by state institutions.

SPAK has not left any stone unturned — neither for investigation nor for "verification" — even though it concerns public property that could reach up to 200 million euros in investment value.

At least no one has called me, although I am ready to testify at any moment. But all this has nothing to do with any violation of the law by the opposition. After all, anyone who has been to the US knows very well that a payment of 250 thousand dollars a month is something that many Albanian businessmen there can afford. There are Albanians who own companies that circulate tens of millions of dollars a day, and many of them hate Rama, who has closed the door to any serious investment in Albania; on the contrary, he has opened the door to Sinaloa-type cartels.

This has to do with the rejection and isolation that the US and Europe are giving Rama every day. At this time, even Soros's machine in the Balkans has left him in the lurch. Even his friend Erdogan, who once guaranteed him support, has now turned his back.

This has enraged Rama, who would sell his soul for such support, but everything has an end. Edi Rama no longer has McGonigal, Yuri Kim, or Blinken, who landed in Tirana every time he was upset.

Now there's no one left!

All he's left with are the "churks" and the "zengjins" who have nothing to do but applaud his empty rhetoric about owls, swamps, nudism, and the "boobs" he mentions to women in meetings.