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THE VELIAJ MODEL, FAILURE OF THE PATRONAZIST YOUTH REPUBLIC

Fundi i udhëheqësisë së Bashkisë Tiranë është treguesi më i qartë se ç’mund të sjellë modeli i qeverisjes me të rinj patronizhistë, gjuetarë të pasurive publike pa djersë pune të ndershme…

2026-03-24 10:13:00, Opinione Xhovan Shyti

The patronage-based Republic of Youth governance model failed. SPAK stopped the revenge, with the revelation of the involvement of the senior leadership in a corruption scheme and abuse of the official positions they held.

The arrest of the directors of the Tirana Municipality of the "5D" scheme was the first blow that hit the wall of the fortress of the Republic of Patronage Youth erected by Erion Veliaj, placed under prison arrest, by decision of the Special Court.

The transfer of the head of the Republic of Patronage Youth to the Durrës detention center brought shock and institutional disarray. When more than a year has passed since the isolation in the cell, the failure to resign from Veliaj, still in office as mayor, and his failure to be dismissed by the Prime Minister, has led to a chaotic administration, to the point of non-existence of the capital's Municipality.

This situation will continue until the "enemies" regain the reason for the irrationality that clouds the reasoning center of their psyche.

Erion Veliaj is known as the creator of the Republic of Youth, a patronage of the "Renaissance" of the Edramist party. He was an ambitious partisan of establishing a governing structure, ruled by the youth.

This idea was more than justified, while the "dudume" part of the mixed political officials of the older generation had brought nothing more than sabotage to the post-communist governments.

But it so happened that with Veliaj at the helm, the youthful administration of the Patronage Republic of the "renaissance" returned to the old days of the Crusader detachments that, in the name of the religious mission, reduced every heretic to ashes.

The heretics of the patronage-oriented Veliaj Republic did not strike with fire and iron, but with their own methods, one of the main of which was sowing the seeds of limitless corruption. This was brought to light by the SPAK crackdown.

Along with the fact that the thirst for enrichment at any cost (with money coming out of taxpayers' pockets), had become the motto of the vast majority of the leaders of the Republic, where Erion Veliaj held the leadership position.

The man who began his political career in 2011, when he joined the Presidency of the Socialist Party, as Secretary for Youth and Immigration. In the 2013 parliamentary elections, Veliaj was elected MP for the Gjirokastër District.

Without any experience or work experience, Erion Veliaj was catapulted by the "seven-star renaissance" Edi Rama, thanks to his slow climbing skills. In May, Erion Veliaj said goodbye to work when he took important positions in the era of Rama's renaissance government.

First, he enjoyed the chair of the head of the Ministry of Social Welfare and Youth, where, thanks to his valuable greed for the application of Goebelism, he managed to gain as many political points as he needed among Rama's "rebirth" socialists.

With the Goebbelsian propaganda of a river of broken promises and the relentless contribution of the youth of the patronage-oriented Republic, Edi Rama managed to seize power in 2013.

Two years after him, through the same route, the implacable chief patron of the "Renaissance" left, the former leader of the "G99" club, Erion Veliaj, won the Tirana Municipality.

By openly materializing his ambition to transform the capital's people's institution into an experimental governance plot of the Republic of the Patronage Youth.

With the policy of mowing down the non-patronage part of the "older generation" administration, in the name of reform, Erion Veliaj, who excitedly called himself "Lali Eri", and incomprehensibly "Zdromsi", managed to sow age cleansing.

And to establish the Republic of Patronage Youth. And here we are today, eight years after the government, by the new "Eronian" blood. Years during which the Veliaj Republic not only was not reborn but collapsed with the most corrupt administration in Europe.

In addition to the directors of the "5 D" corruption scheme, Erion Veliaj himself, the Goebbelsian demagogue who established and administered the government of the Patronage Youth Republic, has ended up behind bars. Charged with 13 serious criminal offenses.

The end of the leadership of the Tirana Municipality is the clearest indicator of what the governance model with patronizing youth, hunters of public assets without honest hard work, can bring.

The patronage of the Republic of Youth Veliaj did not choose as a refrain the service to taxpayers but the greedy tyrants of corrupt enrichment. This credo, unfortunately, was still in function even after the frontal war declared against them by SPAK./ CNA