The leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, has stated that Prime Minister Edi Rama is feeling his political end and, according to him, this is the reason why he does not meet any journalists and refuses debate.
Berisha made the comments during a meeting with citizens at branch number 11 in Tirana, where he said that Rama also steals Albanians' pensions.
Berisha also said that Rama does not have a political program in this electoral campaign, adding that his only program is nonsense, quagmire, banality and deception.
Excerpt from Berisha's speech:
Friends, Edi Rama has felt the end.
For two months now, he has not dared to meet a journalist, let alone a citizen, because he is not responsible for any of his major affairs.
For two months now, he has ordered his candidates to stop confronting our candidates, because he doesn't want you to know the truth, because he knows that they can't come out, that when they leave the studios, they will come out with their faces blackened by the affairs of Edi Rama and other government officials.
I have invited him, I invite him again, to come to this stage and have a debate in front of you, to take all the socialists in the neighborhood and bring them here, I accept them, I respect them, but he doesn't trust the socialists either.
There is no faith that this time they too understood that there is no program. His program is a swamp, it is a sham, it is banality, it is deception.
My friends, the program of the DP and the Alliance for a Greater Albania is the program to eradicate extreme poverty within 100 days.
Every Albanian, every pensioner, every unemployed person, every person on economic assistance, every student on scholarship, every child with a parent, will have a living wage of 200 euros.
The minimum wage in Albania increases to 500 euros.
The government will give low-wage earners and pensioners consumer cards. They will get food 20 percent cheaper than others.
I guarantee that the catastrophic health situation in this country will receive an emergency response.
Citizens, INSTAT itself informed that Albanians pay 820 million out of pocket for healthcare in a year. The annual bread bill in Albania is 220 million euros. The healthcare bill is 820 million euros. Four times more.
Why is this? Because the mafia has deeply invaded the healthcare system.
Because the government officials, their chief executives, embezzle, steal your taxes with which medicines and equipment should be purchased.
And worse, the equipment is left broken so that you have to go to a private clinic or you can't do it.
With their corrupt partnerships, citizens can only conduct public analysis for the first 20 days of the month. The other 10 days, no analysis. All in the private sector.
Friends, there is no system anywhere that is so ruthless, so irresponsible.
You heard Edi Rama three months ago, he was forced to admit that crimes against humanity had been committed at the Oncology Hospital.
Yes, because the sick have not been given the medicines to treat the disease. Or they have been given medicines that are ineffective.
Now, this man who declared three months ago that crimes were committed at the Oncology Hospital, did he take any action? He didn't take any action because he has no soul.
For that, people are to be despised.
They are to be humiliated.
There is no greater humiliation... you have a budget ahead of you to allocate 8 billion and when it comes to it you declare that you have left a total of 16 million euros for pensioners.
And when we, as the opposition, tell them that this is a mistake, they say that if we do what you say, we will fall into the abyss.
No, we are not falling into the abyss. But he steals pensions, because with those pensions he spends money on roads, which he builds at a price ten times higher than the European price.
I use it for luxury, for travel, so my pensions don't increase. (A2 Televizion)
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