Newly-elected Cooks City mayor Safet Gjici was caught on camera performing oral sex on an unidentified woman in his office. It is unclear who took the footage, but it is clear and undeniable. From the comparison between the picture of Gjic’s office used in the previous newsletter and the picture in the video, it is clear that the environment is the same.

Safet Gjici is an Albanian businessman and CEO of EuroGjici Security and Kevin Construction. He is also the chairman of FK Kukësi, an Albanian Premier League football club. In the 2015 local elections, he was the Socialist candidate for the city of Kameez, but lost to Democratic candidate Xhelal Mziu. He was subsequently elected and won the 2019 Cooks mayoral election.

Politiko.al communicated with a Kuka city official who had no objection to the video, saying “it was done by those who could not defeat him by voting”.

In a similar situation, the former mayor of Dibra, Shukri Shelili, also stepped down due to a sex scandal, and the prime minister is likely to step down Safit Kic and call new elections. Regardless, Rama will break with the precedent he has set himself.

After Rrogozhina, Kukësi will be the second municipality to be “overthrown”, increasing the opposition’s chances of challenging a government candidate for a second time.