Prime Minister Edi Rama said that he would communicate over the phone the decision of the SP to General Bajram Begaj who was elected by the SP to be a candidate for President. Rama said that tonight he hoped to have a meeting with him. Meanwhile, it is learned that the phone call was made by the Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces has accepted the proposal of Prime Minister Edi Rama to take the post of the new President of the country.
It was the Prime Minister Edi Rama who announced the proposal of the Socialist Party to elect Bajram Bega as the new President of the country
"The Chief of General Staff is one of the candidates within the SP parliamentary group. I was not among Mr. Begaj's proposers. I'm glad that today's discussion was completely open to debate in a positive spirit, which we need in our meetings. I will call her and hopefully have a meeting with her tonight. We will elect the President of the Republic of Albania in the next session with the mandate given to us by the Albanians. First I will meet with Mr. Begaj, then we will vote for him and then we will start working together each in that part of the common front for Albania.
Today we have respectfully considered a number of candidacies that have turned out to be in that last group and very carefully, we have listed all the positive aspects or those that can create discussions and we have come to the conclusion that Bajram Begaj is right for him. being the next President.
The Chief of General Staff is one of the highest profiles of a state. The one who came from that area of life that the Armed Forces are, is a President who will be remembered for a long time as Alfred Moisiu. "Moisiu showed how the President of Albania should be, and what came after him was worse and worse and in the end there is nothing worse", declared today, among others, Edi Rama.
In 2020 Bajram Begaj took over the post of Chief of General Staff of the Albanian Armed Forces. He previously served as Commander of the Training and Doctrine Command, Chief of the Military Medical Unit, Director of the Health Inspectorate and Chief Inspector and Advisor of the Health Inspectorate at the General Staff of the Albanian Armed Forces.