Ardit Bido, with several versions about the photo scandal

2025-10-04 11:42:00, Denoncim CNA

Yesterday, CNA published a scandal, some footage showing the car of socialist MP Ardit Bido, charging in the courtyard of the State Archives institution, which was run by Bido since 2016 until the latter was elected MP in the May 11 elections.

CNA contacted him about this case, but the MP gave us several versions.

The first one, which was in Strasbourg, then he told us he had no knowledge, then he told us it had been done before, etc.

"Yes, that's my car, but I didn't use it, but a colleague of mine did while I was out these days, in Strasbourg. The fact that it was there, I'm just now finding out."

"So, this photo was taken on the day I made the deliveries to the institution and picked up my personal belongings that I had in the office. The person accompanying me put the car on charge during this moment without thinking long that something like that was not supposed to happen."

These are the two versions made by Bido.

Photo-Scandal/ Socialist MP's car is charged at the institution where he was director
October 3, 15:12

In fact, this photo was not taken when he was in Strasbourg nor when he resigned, because he resigned 6 months ago when he ran for MP, while the photos were taken a few days ago in September.

Perhaps in Albania, these "little shames", that is, when a member of parliament goes to the institution where he was the director, (because perhaps he sees himself as the owner who goes and charges the car), the problem is not the 5-10 thousand lek to charge the car, but the problem is the behavior.

If it had happened in any other European country, at a minimum, the director of the institution in office and the MP himself would have resigned, as it is unacceptable and illogical, and there is no point in justifying the director or the driver or anyone else.

Our goal is neither to smear nor to denigrate Ardit Bido.

We expected that, being a young man and a new MP, he would publicly apologize for this abusive act without any discussion, but perhaps in a country where scandal follows scandal and affair follows affair, these kinds of denunciations seem like petty nonsense, 'what's the problem, everyone steals like this and everyone does like this'.

In fact, we are not dealing with a theft here, but with another abuse in which a former head of the institution goes back to the place where he was a director, this time with the status of an MP and puts his car on charge, as if there is no place where you can charge your car in Tirana or as if an MP with his salary of 4 or 5 thousand euros per month cannot afford it.

Ardit Bido, with several versions about the photo scandal

Without talking about his stance, which is not at all that of a young politician who goes to Strasbourg and should behave like a pro-European, but justifies the wrong action when everything would at least pass with a public apology, therefore, not only to the citizens of Vlora who elected him, but to all Albanians, because he does not need that money, whether it was made with or without his knowledge or his associates./ CNA