Berisha: Today there is the widest front of dissatisfaction with the government since 1991. It is up to us to unite this front

2025-01-09 19:22:37Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Berisha: Today there is the widest front of dissatisfaction with the government
Sali Berisha

The Chairman of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, during a meeting with the branch in the city of Berat, declared that "Today's Albania, compared to 1991, is light years away, but the truth is, to our misfortune, there are also some undeniable similarities."

"In 1991, a pension or a salary, which at that time with the depreciated money was a total of 5 to 8 dollars, I as president received 16 dollars a month. But the prices were such that you could buy something, you could buy maybe even less than a pensioner buys today with a 160 euro pension. So, there is a similarity here. This government in 12 years, opened a big hole, a terrible pit of poverty, from which Albanians, fled, fled, fled, emptied their country. It was a historic achievement when we came out on top of the countries in the region, including Romania and Bulgaria for salaries and pensions, for the first time perhaps in centuries. What happened in these 12 years? Others have surpassed us 4 times. A Montenegrin pensioner receives a pension of 450 euros. A Romanian receives around 750-800 euros a salary today. So, if we imagine it in a "In this way, he plunged Albanians into a pit of poverty in the most heartless way," said Berisha.

"Take this year, 8.2 billion euros of the budget, all your taxes. Of the 8.2 billion euros, those who count the bites, which are the pensioners, are left with a total of 16 million euros. Farmers who provide 20 percent of the country's domestic product are left with a total of 44 million euros, of which half is taken by the state apparatus. Education is excluded, in catastrophic decline, the schooling of our children. You know that keeping education good is a vital effort for the nation and we achieved, not the position we wanted, but we achieved vertical ascent in the PISA test. What happened to these people? As soon as their 8-year term in power was completed, Albania recorded the largest decline in the world in the quality of education, 69 points. This is the truth. What is happening with hospitals? Yesterday I had a journalist in my office, to whom I am very grateful for his extraordinary work. "I am a doctor, I have loved and I love the profession with extraordinary passion, but some developments in my profession today are terrifying, they are unimaginable. When you see that mothers, sisters, daughters, with serious illnesses, the treatment equipment for serious illnesses does not work for three years in a row. And they let the illnesses take them. On the other hand, he himself puts the ivory tower in his office for 5 million euros and comes out to greet Albanians from the vase bought for 5 million, feeding the fish," added the leader of the DP.

"Medicines for those with the most serious illnesses are lacking. I spoke to him yesterday, he has conducted detailed studies. It wasn't just there that situation, it is in some services because they have encouraged theft and corruption in every cell of this state. This is the truth. So, the victory is in your hands, it is in our hands. But, this requires, as a first law, intensive meetings with every citizen of Berat and every Albanian citizen. In fact, today there is a front, the widest that has existed since 1991, of dissatisfaction with the government. It is up to us to unite this front and mark on May 11, the deepest victory we have ever recorded," Berisha concluded.


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