"The earthquake made the government ...", the strong statement of Erjon Brace: That is why I left

Former Deputy Prime Minister Erion Brace spoke tonight on a TV show about the reasons for leaving the government.

Brace spoke of "knives behind his back", saying he could not share the government with another person.

"It was my choice not to be in government. There are many reasons, some have been consumed between me and the Prime Minister. There are some things that maybe time can shake or bring to light later. There are some things related to me that I communicated to the Prime Minister. There were many things I did not like, always in relation to me. One of the elements is these knives behind the cord. There was also a big campaign because of a criminal case by the SPAK against a mayor, who threw himself on my back. In that period I could not share the government with a person who instigated this. Edi Rama was clear about the issue, but in such conditions there was no room for two, there was room for one.

There are many things I thought I could change from the inside out. For a period of 7 months until the earthquake that struck the country, things were going in the right direction, we were trying to establish discipline and order, and foster a work culture in state offices. The earthquake made the government wider and some of the elements I had dealt with during the autumn of that year, which had to do with fiscal and economic policies to the detriment of agriculture and the poor and middle classes, which are now proving harmful, conditions were produced to stagnate, in favor of these people. The day I left I thanked Rama for the freedom he allowed me within the government. For two and a half years I had communication with him. "I had the freedom to object and not to sign in certain cases", said Brace.