TIMELINE: The Crime Scandals Engulfing Albania’s Ruling Party

In 2014, promising to clean up the country, Albania’s government embarked on a project to build hi-tech waste incinerators to serve its biggest cities.

Almost a decade on, it’s not garbage being incinerated, but the political careers of a number of senior members of Prime Minister Edi Rama’s ruling Socialist Party, either for corruption in the awarding of the incinerator contracts, or for other wrongdoing.

Rama has said repeatedly that “the responsibility is personal”, dismissing calls from his opponents and critics for his government to take political responsibility and resign.

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