Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku spoke on Top Story about her relationship with the mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj.
She denied an internal war in the SP.
Belinda Balluku: Erion Veliaj and I are good friends and have been friends for a long time, before we had these duties. I understand that there is always a demand for a soap opera.
How are these accusations being made…
I understand very well that there is an attention and tendency for soap operas in the news, but to be honest, they are messing around in the wrong place because neither I nor Erion have any reservations towards each other.
Do you really think that the mayor’s attack by SPAK does not harm the SP of Tirana?
I would like all levels of justice to be followed as they should. If a file is investigated, this does not make the person under investigation guilty. This is the biggest mistake that is happening at this moment, everyone who has an open issue, definitely needs all this public anger that puts the person in a corner and treats him as a guilty person. This should not happen.
When it comes to Meta and Berisha, there is no problem…
Erioni is a political figure. Today he was at the table with me and all the other district leaders and he is working, as he has worked every day and I assure you of this.
Veliaj is the mayor of Tirana and one of the district leaders, he is a senior political representative. So far we have the opinion of the prime minister that he is being publicly lynched. Do you have an opinion?
I just said this a moment ago. There is an unjustified public lynching.
Yes, the SP will have a cost, not only in Tirana, but everywhere. For Veliaj we do not simply have a report, we have a check, we have the check of his wife…
I share the same position with the prime minister. A public lynching is taking place without logic. As for the impact, today I was at the same table with Veliaj and all the district leaders, it is at work. We are in a campaign that we consider to have begun.
SPAK is acting, but there should be a public discussion since Veliaj is the mayor of Tirana…
We will never make the mistake that our predecessors made of influencing the justice system. For this reason, the right moment has come to share honest work that is free from abuses.
Do you have any knowledge of who Nesti Angoni is?
I neither know who Nesti Angoni is, nor do I have any interest in knowing. I have seen a hurricane of accusations that, to be honest, made me smile. It is not in my interest because I have much more important work to do than deal with the insinuations and accusations of the media regarding this issue.
