{"id":354,"date":"2026-11-05T08:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T08:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2026-11-05T08:44:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T08:44:45","slug":"the-miners-accusation-arlind-qori-told-us-to-vote-for-the-socialist-party-dont-vote-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"The miner&#8217;s accusation: Arlind Qori told us to vote for the Socialist Party, don\u2019t vote for\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a phone call to the Syri TV programme \u201cKafe Shqeto,\u201d hosted by Flavio Qarri, Oltjan Xheka, a miner from Bulqiza, made allegations against the leader of L\u00ebvizja Bashk\u00eb (Together Movement), Arlind Qori, concerning his positions during the election campaign in Bulqiza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xheka said that, during meetings with residents, Qori urged them to vote for the Socialist Party if they did not vote for him, calling on them not to vote for the Democratic Party or the Socialist Movement for Integration (LSI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>His remarks:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am a miner from Bulqiza. I worked underground in Bulqiza for 15 years, and I remember Arlind Qori\u2019s campaign. My name is Oltjan Xheka. When Arlind came to Bulqiza, they would tell us: if you don\u2019t vote for us, vote for the Socialist Party; don\u2019t vote for either the Democratic Party or the LSI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe surprising thing here is that Arlind\u2019s friends\u2014that Klodjan Leka, if the name means anything to you\u2014used to hang out and smoke with their financier; I don\u2019t know his name. They used to take drugs back then. They would come to our apartment building and smoke cannabis with me, but I\u2019ve quit now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am speaking to you under my full name. My name is Oltjan Xheka.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a phone call to the Syri TV programme \u201cKafe Shqeto,\u201d hosted by Flavio Qarri, Oltjan Xheka, a miner from Bulqiza, made allegations against the leader of L\u00ebvizja Bashk\u00eb (Together Movement), Arlind Qori, concerning his positions during the election campaign in Bulqiza. Xheka said that, during meetings with residents, Qori urged them to vote for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[180,51,178,181,183,179,182],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-accusation","tag-albania","tag-arlind-qori","tag-electoral-campaign","tag-gazetaalbania","tag-miner","tag-socialist-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}