The Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, has reacted after the statements of journalist Blendi Fevziu, who last night on the show "Opinion" said that he has facts according to which at least seven ministers travel abroad on weekends for private reasons, while television broadcasts footage of inspections as if they were at work.
In a public reaction, Rama emphasizes that there is no evidence in the ministers' official travel records to support these accusations.
According to him, even in cases where ministers travel abroad for personal reasons, this is done only after a formal request for permission and with appropriate approval.
The Prime Minister also made fun of the term "tape", underlining that such materials have not been used for years and that the claim of false inspections is untrue.
"The only reason I find for this thunder is Fevziu's last 7 trips to Latin America, where Fevziu, together with Baton Haxhiu, ate breakfast with llapingachos in Ecuador or thundered the famous Caranavi coffee 8,500 feet above sea level in Bolivia, and here he argued live on Opinion until midnight with Baton - of course, along with the chorus of his salon's scoundrels - both about the dark chronicle of the week and the whitewashed wiretaps of the day," Rama writes.
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Blendi Fevziu sounded the alarm bells last night, declaring live in his salon that he has evidence that "at least 7 ministers are on private trips abroad on Saturdays and Sundays, and leave inspection tapes on TV as if they are at work"...
"I guarantee you this," said Fevziu, adding that "this is an unprecedented practice, outside any democratic standard and not used in any other country in the world."
Not only is the guarantee given by Fevziu not supported by any fact in the ministers' travel records (who, even when they go abroad for personal reasons, do so with a request for permission and only with approval), it is as far from reality as the very fact that there have been no more tapes in our district for years :-)
The only reason I find for this thunder is Fevziu's last 7 trips to Latin America, where Fevziu, together with Baton Haxhiu, ate breakfast with llapingachos in Ecuador or sipped the famous Caranavi coffee 8,500 feet above sea level in Bolivia, and here he argued live on Opinion until midnight with Baton - of course, along with the chorus of his salon's scoundrels - about both the dark chronicle of the week and the whitewashed wiretaps of the day...
And to be fair with the facts, the trips remained 6 because while the TV Clan tape was broadcasting Fevziu asking the Albanian police for an account live on screen at night about the state of public order, the real Fevziu was giving an account live in the morning to the Venezuelan police why the hell he wanted to enter that country. And while live here on Opinion, Fevziu in a suit and tie was instigating the panel's argument with the police until late, live there at the Venezuelan border the police were turning Fevziu back in a flowered shirt and straw hat, considering him too fanatical a democrat to visit that very proud narco-dictatorship.
This joke, based on real facts, was more than half the truth and had absolutely no intention of provoking any unprecedented anger outside of any democratic standard from Blendi Fevziu, because it is his freedom to go wherever he wants and TV Klan's right to broadcast Opinion live in Fevziu's absence.
But if Fevziu is serious about this idiotic topic of tapes, and if he is also serious about the ministers' trips abroad, of course, then it is universally known that I am always his, ready to face the only opposition that is left without a clue in this country - despite the trivial live blunders like this one by the 7 ministers, which also have their humorous side.
***Attached are Blend's 6+1 trips