In a handwritten notice, the democratically elected mayor of the capital of Albania confessed that it’s exhausting to do his job: He has been locked in a jail cell for the previous 9 months.
Erion Veliaj was — and maybe nonetheless is — a strong politician in Albania’s ruling Socialist Occasion. As a former social activist and the favored mayor of Tirana, he might need adopted his predecessors to grow to be prime minister or president. As an alternative, his future is cloudy, to say the least.
