Albanian opposition leader, Lulzim Basha accused Prime Minister Edi Rama of being taken hostage by crime, as the PM decided to sack the Minister of Justice, Ylli Manjani.
“With Manjani’s dischargement it is proved once more that Edi Rama is hostage to crime and Ilir Meta is hostage to him (Rama). Those who are hostage to crime cannot fight nor crime nor corruption,” Basha told reporters at a press conference held in capital Tirana. “The solution is to remove them,” he added recalling that the general elections are due to be hold in June.
“Today Rama-Tahiri government replaced Rama-Meta Government. Criminal clans represented by Saimir Tahiri (Minister of Interior) are today co-chairman of the government,” Basha said, as Manjani, a minister from the junior coalition partner Socialist Movement for Integration (LSI) was a public criticizer of Tahiri from the Socialist Party and the work done by Albanian police.
Basha said that Minister Manjani was sacked from his position “because he spoke openly against crimes which have taken hostage the government, for drugs, for Balili, for the orders that Rama gives to the judges over the phone, for corruptive tenders and concessions.”
He said that Manjani broke the code of silence imposed to ministers by Rama.
Basha went on saying that Manjani’s statements “are another confirmation for the truths opposition has denounced during these three years. Governmental propaganda cannot cover these truths anymore”.
The opposition leader, Lulzim Basha said that governmental links with crime, drugs and the danger they pose to the free and fair elections were denounced once more by a minister of that government, Lefter Koka. /tvklan.al
