Former politician Jozefina Topalli, otherwise known as the Albanian “iron woman”, has confessed about her life like never before. Invited to RTSH, Topalli shared with all viewers how she started her family and political life. Her youth before the 90s was not easy at all, she said. He agreed to do various jobs in the wire factory, work in the loom, but he faced rejection time after time.
“Even after I finished high school, I always applied to be granted the right to study and this was not achieved until 1991. Then they gave me a job sheet, to start as a simple worker in a wire factory with three shifts, but they took me away because they told me that I don’t deserve it. Then I went to work on a loom in a factory, I started 6 months as an apprentice who didn’t pay me with three shifts and after 6 months a new factory would open and when it opened they told me that there is no job for you. It was the crash of all dreams. What was absurd was that I had another friend from the city and she was in the same situation as me, and the brigadier was standing in front of us saying, ‘if you’re smart here you’ll retire’, so we had to consider ourselves very privileged that we were working there”, said Topalli with a chuckle.
Jozefina Topalli is known for her long and successful career in politics. She previously served as Speaker of the Assembly of Albania from September 2005 to September 9, 2013. She also held the title of Deputy Speaker of the Democratic Party at that time.
The former politician is the mother of two children, Meg and Gerard, as well as the grandmother of a son.
