Veliaj's 99-no-votes against justice

2026-07-10 11:33:00, Aktualitet CNA

The arrested mayor of Tirana, with 13 charges for 5 serious criminal offenses, Erion Veliaj, together with his 99-year-old defendant lawyer, Plarent Ndreca, and the media that have been serving him since the mayor's arrest, have launched a campaign of attacks against the judiciary, SPAK, and prosecutors.

Those whom Veliaj once called "colleagues" are now his "enemies" and from the depths of the dungeon of Durres prison where he is imprisoned, he creates all sorts of schemes and scenarios to attack them.

With reports worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, with paid articles in international media, with articles in his own media and television stations that he himself has shown he directs from Durrës prison, with ridiculous lawsuits in the courts, etc.

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He has been dragging out the legal proceedings at the GJKKO for about a year. The dragging out of the legal proceedings against him has become a deliberate strategy and this is clear, the means are different, from illnesses, accidents, files, the glass cage, etc., all have one goal: avoiding justice and delaying the process.

One of the mayor's schemes to endlessly drag out the election processes was to change lawyers, from Artan Gërmeni, Ermir Beta, Valentina Teodorescu to end up with the defendant Plarent Ndreca.

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So, it has come to the point where the defendant Erion Veliaj is being defended by another defendant, Plarent Ndreca, accused of the criminal offense of "violating the equality of participants in public tenders or auctions."

Plarent Ndreca, Veliaj's 99-something without votes

Plarent Ndreca is not just a 99 of Erion Veliaj.

During an observation, CNA learned that the accused lawyer Plarent Ndreca was also a member of the arrested mayor of Tirana's "G99" party.

In the 2009 elections, the candidate on the G99 list for the Lezha district, after Erion Veliaj, was Plarent Ndreca.

Veliaj's 99-no-votes against justice

According to data, this year, Erion Veliaj, together with Plarent Ndreca, received 368 votes.

These numbers clearly show how many Albanian voters in the Lezha district voted, as out of a total of 77,224 voters, Plarent Ndreca and Erion Veliaj received a combined 368 votes.

Everything is clear. The "gang" of 99ers against justice has had early connections. Today, 99er Plarent Ndreca, who won the election with 368 votes, acts as a "gang" together with Veliaj against justice, SPAK, prosecutors and judges. / CNA