"Never die Fatos Nano"/ Rama: How much you were loved by the man of the earth and those who put you in prison

2025-11-02 12:50:00, Aktualitet CNA

"Never die Fatos Nano"/ Rama: How much you were loved by the man of

Prime Minister Edi Rama delivered his speech at the tributes held for former Prime Minister and former leader of the Socialist Party, Fatos Nano.

Rama began his speech with the reactions made by political and public figures to the ouster of the former prime minister.

The Prime Minister said he would like to have dinner with Nano to discuss all these reactions and those who imprisoned him and who for years accused him of all the wrongdoings.

Regarding Fatos Nanon's role in leading the Socialist Party and in politics, after his release from prison, Rama called his predecessor a rare political animal.

Focusing on their collaboration and Rama's succession of Nano as head of the SP, the prime minister compared it to changing the gears of a car. Rama concluded his speech by saying: Never die, Fatos Nano.

Rama's speech

They say a word dies without being loved. How I wish, dear Fatos, that we could sit tonight at one of those dinners and go through until late in that magazine of ours everything that was said and written since the news came out that you were gone forever. But how much you have been loved and admired, you man of the earth, and those who did not leave sticks under the wheels without putting them on. Even those who took you to prison and came to kill you in the office and left all the black in your face for years. Just look at how they embroidered the words. It hurts me that we will not be together today for a dinner that was not paid for. Instead of laughing with you today, I have to list the words of a farewell that I could never have imagined. I swear I never even thought of you lying in a coffin to truly escape this life you loved and lived, drinking the cups of fate to the brim and smoking its chapters with that weave whether you climbed to the top, touched the bottom or stepped aside. Here is the heavy task that fell to me, the chairman bidding farewell to the founder of our family.

Those who, while talking about Fatos Nano's passing, took themselves too seriously became ridiculous.

From my adoption to killing my father for taking his scepter, there is no place here today.

His profile gave Fatos Nano the specter of leading the left after the burial of the Labor Party.

At the headquarters of the party he led, there is a photo of him, which for me remains a significant sight after his release from prison.

Fatos of the headquarters, just released from prison with eyes that sparkle with sparks, is a rare political animal that has the great merit that the Socialist Party did not move for a moment from the gravity of the national interest. Among those who honored our president with great words after his death were also those who raised and lowered him as a traitor. I heard from him his conversation with the butcher of Serbia. When one day the words spoken in that meeting come to light, then no one, absolutely no one, will be able to question that the contribution to the liberation of Kosovo and the signing of the Ohrid Agreement ranks Nanon in the first ranks of the nation's honor.

In the direction of the government, he had to lead the people's exodus from the desert of the pyramids. He faced a proactive opposition and armed attacks on the country and on him physically. However, this is not the day to write the history of Fatos Nanon, but the day to say goodbye to him. I will miss our communication as between the driver of the first shift and the driver of the second shift for the same car. Understand me on the air. When I think about what a Soviet four-wheeler in the first shift and what a better vehicle I got from you, it comes quite naturally to me to tell you never to die Fatos Nano.