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Who paid Chris Precht for the Prime Minister's private garden?

Politiko 2026-06-27 12:29:02
Who paid Chris Precht for the Prime Minister's private garden?

 

By Ola Xama

There is no doubt that the installation located in the Prime Minister's Office building is Edi Rama's private garden. This is also confirmed by the notes left on the book "Albanian Files" by Chris Precht, founder of Precht Studio.

After being contacted on Instagram by Edi Rama himself, who proposed working in Albania, Precht says that "When Edi Rama asked me to design a place in the form of a meeting room in the courtyard of the Prime Minister's Office" he had thought about the feeling of "a park where he and his staff could disconnect from work for a few moments, find a quiet space under the trees, communicate with colleagues and friends or reflect."

What is known is that the Prime Minister's desire to have Eden Park has cost 4.7 million euros of our taxes for the construction project (a contract that was signed with the company Fusha shpk), but there is no trace in the state treasury system of who paid for the project idea (its design) or traces in the form of a donation (gift) from Precht himself or other entrepreneurs.

 

In dozens of requests for the right to information that I have sent to the Prime Minister's Office on this issue, most have not received a response and after complaints to the Office of the Commissioner for the Right to Information, the Prime Minister's Office has delegated the response to the Albanian Development Fund. The latter has literally said that it has not paid for the project because the Council of Ministers that gave it this responsibility charges it with the implementation of the installation and not its design.

That Star Architects' ideas cost money, they themselves admit this in the story they left in the "Albania Files", but what Chris Precht doesn't say is who paid him for the project?

If the prime minister's wishes are financed by his businessmen's court, if no funding programming procedure is respected to implement them (the reallocations for the construction of Eden Park were made in violation of the Budget Law), if there is no prior assessment of the public need for the works financed by taxpayers, then I have no objection to the piercing irony that Dutch architect Reinier de Graaf made in his letter to Edi Rama before the 2025 elections: "Proclaim yourself king!"

The problem with this letter is not the architect's sarcasm, but the blindness of the servile people who work with Mr. Rama, who no longer even understand the mockery and publish the letter in the book that Albania will present to the world (as the Prime Minister himself referred to the material in the interview with CNN).

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