For the first time since the start of the campaign, Sali Berisha appeared this evening with a hat bearing the number 1, which coincides with the number of the Alliance for a Greater Albania on the ballot for the May 11 elections. In front of the residents of Kamza, the democratic leader presented the PD's electoral program and promised that when he comes to power he will increase salaries and pensions. According to him, pensioners have been treated inhumanely.
"A pensioner who in 2013 received an average pension of 143 thousand lek, received more than any of his peers in the surrounding countries. But what is the situation today? Today, a pensioner in Montenegro receives 450 euros, while a pensioner in Albania receives 170 euros. A pensioner in Macedonia receives 405 euros. A pensioner in Serbia receives 430 euros. A pensioner in Kosovo receives 190 euros. In Albania, the average person receives 170 euros. Only 43 percent of pensioners receive this much, 57 percent of them receive a partial pension. This was an inhumane, humiliating attitude for a third of the population. Therefore, I pledge to you that in the first 100 days, there will be no pensioner in Albania who will not receive 200 euros."
He accused the current government of impoverishing the country, increasing prices, and massive depopulation, stating that over 1 million Albanians have left from 2014 to 2023.
"From 2014 to 2023, 1 million and 99 thousand residents of Kamza and all of Albania left for the EU alone. My friends, those who took the dirt roads did not take them because they coveted wealth. They did not take them because they had no longing and love for their family. They did not take them because they did not love their country. But they took the roads because they could not live in Kamza, they could not live in Tirana, they could not live in Albania because this regime, Albania, Kamza, which grew in population from year to year, made Albania and Kamza unlivable. It made the table of Albanian families not even accept their own children, but told them, whatever fate has in store for them, take the roads of the world. Albanians did not leave because they wanted to leave, but they left because they could not buy medicine in their country, but they left because they could not pay their loans in their country, but they left because they could not buy houses in their country."
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