Rama gathers SP Ministers

01/08/2013 00:00

24 hours after the Socialist Party leader announced the names of the new
Ministers, he held the first consulting meeting with some of them.

The meeting lasted for more than one hour, in which Edi Rama left a series of tasks to the new Ministers.

Sources from the Socialist Party declared that the next Prime Minister asked the Ministers to start working for building the respective cabinets, including the creation of structures for every ministry.

One day ago Edi Rama declared: “We want to start working since the first day, not to start by getting to know the work that is awaiting us”.

The Prime Minister declared that “the new Ministers should receive their tasks and get to know the content of their work. They must think and the work together for the divisions that are needed for the existing ministries”.

The meeting of this Thursday was made exactly for this. The new Socialist ministers have released no comment for the journalist, and Rama met only with the Socialist Party ministers, not the one of the Socialist Movement for Integration.

Sources from the Socialist Party say that the new government will continue with similar meetings before they take their oath. The next government will have one deputy Prime Minister, 16 Ministers and three Ministers without a portfolio.

New cabinet:
Prime Minister Edi Rama
Deputy Prime Minister, Niko Peleshi
Minister of Finances, Shkëlqim Cani
Interior Minister, Saimir Tahiri
Minister of Defense, Mimi Kodheli
Foreign Minister, Ditmir Bushati
Minister of European Integration, Klajda Gjosha
Minister of Justice, Nasip Naço
Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Enterprising, Arben Ahmetaj
Minister of Energy and Industry, Damian Gjiknuri
Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Edmond Haxhinasto
Minister of Urban Development and Tourism, Eglantina Gjermeni
Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Water Administration, Edmond Panariti
Minister of Health, Ilir Beqja
Minister of Education and Sport, Lindita Nikolla
Minister of Social Welfare and Youth, Erjon Veliaj
Minister of Culture, Mirela Kumbaro
Minister of Environment, Lefter Koka
Minister for Innovation and Public Administration, Milena Harito
Minister for Domestic Matters, Bledi Çuçi
Minister for Relations with Parliament, Ilirjan Celibashi