A few days before the approval in the Parliament, the head of PL Ilir Meta described the government's budget for 2024 as corrupt and clientelistic. According to him, state money will not go to help the needy.
"The budget from the beginning to the end is clientelistic whose main interest is government corruption. This budget, as we have emphasized in different sectors, reduces social expenses. There is no increase in unemployment benefits. The fund for increasing pensions will be only 2.1% of the total Social Security fund that does not even realize the indexation for the level of inflation. No funding is foreseen to support the poorest from further price increases in 2024.
Meanwhile, the expenses for the financing of PPP concessions will continue to increase significantly by 10% or by 136 million euros. While most of them are under investigation. In particular, I would emphasize the financing of agriculture, which is scandalous as it worsens, shrinking from 0.7% of GDP to 0.6% of it and remaining last in the region for subsidies. Also in relation to this situation, I want to underline the risk to the finances of the Albanian consumer, which is the almost double-digit increase in the prices of agricultural products. These months have been worrying since this double-digit increase that almost every agricultural product has suffered, fruits and vegetables are at the center of the concerns of consumers, especially pensioners, about the impossibility of purchasing them.
another potential risk for our economy, that of the devaluation of the European currency in relation to the lek. Euro continues to be in a depreciating position for 15 days in a row, falling by 11% compared to a year ago. The devaluation of the euro is at the same levels as in the July-August period, when there was also an influx of tourism. Well then there was an influx of tourists, but today what is the reason? No other reason than the government's interest in laundering dirty money.
Albania is ranked the most expensive country in the region even though it is an oil producing country and one of the 7 most expensive countries in Europe for the price of oil". (A2 Televizion)
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