Prime Minister Edi Rama ended today with a visit to the SP headquarters in Unit 2 in Tirana.
Rama was inspired by a young man who had recently joined the Socialist Party through the "Deputy We Want" platform, to tell the story of his membership in this political force in 2003, when he also announced his candidacy for president.
"Here I am, the example. The first battle for the party… they left me on the streets. They left me on the stairs. Here at Unit 2. With that head of the organization. Take Musa Ulqin, ask. I went to the organization. I told Musa, Musa: 'Does your party have an organization office'. Yes, he told me. I told him tomorrow I want to join the SP. As soon as I won the 2003 elections. Right there, they took me, registered me. These poor people didn't know what was coming to them, because they had it here: come once, stay for three years, grow up, then we'll see. There was no 'Deputy we want' back then. And when I went out to the door, I said, I'm announcing my candidacy for SP head today. In a month, the congress was coming. Oh my, oh my. All that demand, that the local elections were being held, tell Rama to come. There was a vacuum all around. Only Ben Blushi was the one who resisted "Musai was holding himself together, but he still wiped his cheeks a little with a tissue," Rama confessed.
After a phone call with former MP Musa Ulqini, Rama also revealed the name of the head of the organization that registered him as a member of the Socialist Party, whose name was Kismet Meta, and for whom the prime minister said that he was given a "kismet" with his biblical name.
The head of government also recounted his journey to the top of the SP, which began with much opposition from the "old jackets", at that time aligned with Fatos Nano, mentioning an episode at the SP meeting in Ballsh.
"I also went to the conference. Where was the conference then? They told me you can't enter here. They told me you are an ordinary member of the SP, you can't run. And the leadership met. Arta Dade was a delegate there, she was depressed by the danger that was threatening the party. But she supported me then. They wouldn't let me in, then in the end they let me in at all, but Gramozi told me you can enter, but don't remember that they are waiting for you inside. I entered, they said: 'Traitor, traitor, ungrateful, haram'. In the end I didn't have the signatures at all. They didn't give me the signatures. When I was at the steps of the Congress, they made me do anything for the signatures. Until in the end they gave me the signatures, I got 6%, 40 or so votes. And there was a blackout for two years. Then things went downhill", Rama confessed, as if to show that the SP's openness towards young people has now become a normal process and the generational turnover does not come with as many challenges as before.
"Normally you are inside here, because with the Nares Party then you would be on the street waiting there. If I passed by, they would send me away, they would say, go away, boy, grow up once," Rama said to Elton Spahiu, who came from the "Deputy We Want" platform as a new addition to the SP.
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