Socialist leader Edi Rama has explained why he included Erjona Ismail in the closed list of candidates for deputies of the Socialist Party in the Vlora region. He says that he met her during a telephone debate with her about the floods in this city. According to Rama, even though she was engaged with civil society, he had no desire to see her.
"I have always thought that we in Vlora do not get the maximum and I believe that the people of Vlora would give us, if we were able to give them there in Vlora an offer that did not bring closure to mind. In Vlora, for the closed list to be an instrument of the open party and the party to be an instrument beyond itself and to give it to others to use as an instrument is Erjona Ismaili. Erjona Ismaili is a girl that I met in a conflict, a conflict on the phone. When Vlora was flooded. There was a complaint, I answered her. She did not like it, we spoke on the phone with our fingers in our ears. A rock head, I have no less a rock head and we clashed. But it impressed me a lot, because the way she spoke was not a person who complained banally but who had a commitment and I became interested and understood that she was a person engaged with civil society and I saw that she had no desire to see this person; "No, she's crazy, and why was she crazy? Because what she did to me was probably because of things she believed in. These people who believe that things can be done better are not in negative opposition, they are not idiots, they don't curse like fans because they want power, it's part of being in politics."
Rama mocked rival opposition candidates in this district and said that the DP cannot get more than 4 MPs in Tirana.
"Here in Vlora, what kind of patriots can you be when you vote again for Lesko and Qirje Dule. You will go and vote in vain in Vlora because you will not get more than 4 deputies and in Tirana. Meanwhile, what we are doing, I am telling my people that the Socialist Party of 2030 is not a swamp. A well-known democrat in the swamp districts, with a business and a factory with 300 or so workers in Italy, a person XI connected to him, a girl applies to the Deputy we want and creates a chance. This man is surprised and starts registering an immigrant for this girl. He had no connection with my party. Because these people went to the Diaspora when the work was finished. They went to him, asked for his vote and he said 'I am with the Democratic Party but I am not with the swamp owl'."
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