The Chairman of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, presented today the DP candidates in Elbasan.
During his speech among those present at the city's Sports Palace, Berisha said that the first task of the DP government in Elbasan will be the construction of the city's bypass.
Berisha also said that taxes for businesses will be the lowest in Albania's history, writes A2 CNN.
Excerpt from Berisha's speech:
Great Albania can only be an Albania that produces, produces and produces.
Therefore, the second pillar of our program is the economy, the economy, the economy, with the main objective being salaries for Albanians, jobs for Albanians.
Made in Albania will be the national pride of Albanians.
The magnificent Elbasan begins with the construction of the Elbasan bypass as the government's first work.
Yes, yes, I have stated and I declare again, the Elbasan bypass and the Shkodër-Milot highway will be the first two works to be built with absolute priority by the next government.
The magnificent Elbasan, the Elbasan that produces, will have absolute support from the government.
Business will have the lowest taxes it has ever known. 10 percent will be the tax on profit. But this time we have taken another bold step, we have broken another taboo, which was VAT, it will fall from 20 to 15 percent.
The price of energy will be divided by three, out of 18 it will be 6 lek.
Friends, yesterday I traveled to the Tirana market, I was honestly moved. The conditions in which those men and women made a living, without any conditions, to support their families, were shocking.
What was there? What did I find there? The public space, which they had previously rented for 120 lek per square meter, Lali Vjedhësi had sold for 1500 lek.
Water bill doubled or tripled. No service. 8 to 10 percent of turnover in other taxes.
A butcher, a meat seller, told me: Doctor, now only on holidays can we achieve the turnover we had every day before.
We are therefore determined to give Albanians freedom in their initiative.
We believe in the strength, we believe in the creative spirit and free initiative of Albanians. We will expand the space for it, so that Albanians can invest. To employ.
Every immigrant who returns to invest and build their dream in Albania will be tax-free for the first 5 years.
Why do young people leave? Because they can't afford to buy a house. Do you know the taxes they impose on builders?
They have removed the tax on the cost, they are imposing a tax on the sale price. They may not be sold at all. I guarantee you that the taxes on construction will be 8 to 10 times lower. You pay it, the builder does not pay it and the builder increases the price and your children run away.
Social buildings, cutting with the scissors of the law the channels of crime. Normal prices. Subsidies, soft loans for every young person who will get married and create a life in Albania.
Soft loans for every immigrant who will return to invest and live in Albania.
But who killed Made in Albania? It was narcoeuro.
Thousands and thousands of fashion and other businesses closed because they immediately lost 38 percent of their profits with the narco-euro.
The Open Balkans killed him, because the farmer of Cërrik, of Dumre, does not receive even a tenth of the Serbian farmer. And Edi Rama opened the doors for his brother Vučić and destroyed the farms here.
I guarantee Albanian farmers, the Open Balkans in the trash.
I guarantee Albanian farmers that they will be subsidized 5 times more than today, because that's what it is in surrounding countries. I'm not going to Europe.
We continue our projects until we reach 20 million olive trees in Albania, we continue until we triple-quadruple the area under walnut trees.
We will strongly subsidize aromatic plants because they are a major source of income for Albanians.
I guarantee that not a single kilogram of pesticides and poisons that are not traded in Europe will be introduced into the territory of Albania.
And that the asymmetric tax imposed by Edi Rama against farmers to favor imports will end. In the first 2 months, the tax will become symmetrical, both on sales and purchases, and the money will go to the farmer.
Albania has tremendous potential to exploit. I assure you that we will double production. Production will be our national pride.
He tells the fashionistas that you are a third world industry. So leave because Senegalese will come here, I will take others. It is a first class industry, it is an industry of the best clothes and brands. Instead of subsidizing it...
I guarantee every fashion and other enterprise that a board will compensate penny for penny for the euro exchange rate and will never close down enterprises due to the euro being spread across the land by narcos.
Young people have digital dreams. Friends, in history, nations that missed the train of industrial revolutions have been left far behind. We couldn't catch up at that time, we were overwhelmed.
We must catch the train of the high-tech revolution at all costs. Therefore, I guarantee that Internet 4, blockchain and cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence and data centers, will be absolute priorities of our government's investments with the private sector.
We will transform Albania into a regional epicenter of high technology.
We are the ones who made the change in energy and you are witnesses. Do you remember, when I was cutting the ribbon with Statkraft for the Devoll hydroelectric power plants, Edi Rama was distributing the announcement that he was repeating the fraud. Today they are a reality. Today the new hydroelectric power plants produce 60 percent of the country's production.
But that was the first step. Today, before you, I declare that Albania will be an energy superpower in the region.
Water, sun, wind, will be inexhaustible sources of energy for Albanians. From south to north, their roofs and those of their businesses will be covered with photovoltaic panels, and at the end of three years, Albanians will receive free energy.
(A2 Televizion)