Former Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati has been expelled from the Albanian Premier Edi Rama’s Socialist Party (PS). The decision is not official yet, but it was announced in Shkodra, Bushati’s electoral zone, by Rama’s emissary Ilir Beqaj, a former minister of Health now rehabilitated again by the Prime Minister.

Beqaj held a meeting with the PS structures in Shodra, his first in the capacity of the political coordinator appointed by Rama in the last meeting of the Socialist parliamentary group.

Despite not naming Bushati – which comes from a prominent family in the northern Albanian city – Beqaj spoke of lack of work with the party structures since a year. Beqaj hinted he has been given by Rama the competence for the list of the Socialist candidates of Shkodra for the next year’s election.

Bushati has been a strong adversary of the idea of land swap between Kosovo and Serbia, proposed by Serbian President Vucic and supported by Rama and Kosovo President Thaçi.