In an interview with Grida Duma in "Top Story" on Top Channel, Edi Rama also touched on one of the most talked about moments during his political career - the publication of nude photos in 2007, before the campaign for the post of mayor the capital.

Rama confessed that he had left the box with photos in the trunk of the car, as at that time he was very inattentive and careless. One day, his phone rang and someone blackmailed him.

"One fine day my phone rang and I picked it up. Someone in a disturbing voice told me: 'Look, you have to get ready to pay because you have the campaign ahead of you.' I was not understanding what he was saying. I asked him who it was and he said: 'You will understand, but be prepared to pay well,'” he recounted.

Following this, the prime minister added that the person who blackmailed him first, called him again after 10 days to tell him that "the women, all the chicks and all the families of this country will be terrified."

"I had a flash that is the photos. I looked for them and couldn't find them and the car had gone to a place and there the things were lost. So I had a preparation. When the photos arrived in the envelope at the office, I told them 'I don't pay anything, do whatever you want'. There was no question of paying because I had done nothing," he added.

"I made up my mind that I had to face the truth. I was dying to hide this. I was at a nudist beach with my girlfriend. I was a free man, I didn't leave the campaign in the middle to run away there. I have always had faith in Albanians, because they are sharp even for certain things that people can discuss and they have a strong instinct about who is right. At this point I was like, 'What is this at the end of the day?'

At the end of the confession, Rama emphasized that at that time, he had a meeting with some young people, with whom he was honest and did not say that the photos were a montage. "I told them that they took out some photos of me that I took with my girlfriend there and they think that by getting into my private life, they hurt me. They all burst into applause and when I was coming out, there was one of these typicals and he said to me 'You're great, because I had split my mind, but I wanted to hear what you had to say and if you had said that it was a montage, you would have forgot my vote'', he said.

"I think Albanians are very sharp and adaptable," concluded Rama.