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"100 days for the decisive turning point", Berisha: Empty cradles, classrooms without students are misery for every Albanian

Politiko 2025-05-07 18:37:29

"100 days for the decisive turning point", Berisha: Empty cradles,

The leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, during the closing electoral meeting of the PD-ASHM in Korça, harshly accused the government of the last 12 years, which he called a “narco-dictatorship” that has suppressed pluralism, the opposition and destroyed the economy. Berisha emphasized the massive exodus of residents from Korça and the surrounding districts as a result of growing poverty, lack of jobs, declining agricultural production and the collapse of health and educational services.

Berisha : Friends, Korça and wise Korça people, never forget a moment. The one who came to power by vote in 2013, he proudly went from one television studio to another with irons in his hand to terrorize his citizens.
He thought that, in this way, he would dominate them, he would bully them. In this way, he actually showed the face of his predecessors, who had decided to hang political opponents.
He came to Korça, and he came as a bargainer. He thought that here, with his Niko, he could buy a simple citizen of Korça, one of you. He could buy him, because he could not stand his criticism, he could not stand his free spirit, and he was ready to buy him.
However, the citizen of Korça, to whom I wish a happy birthday today, happened to be one of you, happened to be with your character, with your moral norms, not of his kind, nor of his Pelesh. And his entire campaign was focused in Korça on this man whom I wish another 120 years, Ilir Vrenozi.
Today, I call on every citizen of Korça, Pogradec, Kolonja, Devoll, on May 11 to unite, because, a house without children, without young people, an empty cradle, classes without students are misery, for every Albanian who calls himself Albanian. Regardless of his beliefs, I say to every citizen of Korça and Albania, that a house without young people, an empty cradle, even if it has gold on the walls, end up in a museum and not in a house with a God. And we, today, are never who we should have been.
We today are the people who have abandoned Korça and Albania in 10 years, more than any other nation.
We today are the people in which schools no longer have students.
Today, as a nation, we have the lowest birth rate in the world due to emigration.
So, a siren, a cry emanates from the soul of this nation. For every Korçar, for every Albanian, on May 11th, let's save it. You are the hope! Korça has hope, Korça has faith!
You, who filled the squares, restored hope to Korça, restored hope to Albania.
We need 100 days, not for my power, never. But we need 100 days to sign together a decisive turn in this great decline that we have.
We only need 100 days so that our mothers, fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers no longer count the food, but are rewarded, receive a minimum pension, never lower than 200 euros.
Today, 570 thousand have a pension of less than 172 euros.
We need low-wage earners to never receive salaries below 500 euros. So that you no longer pay more than 7 lek per kilowatt for energy.
So that you never buy oil more expensive than Macedonia.
We need 100 days so that you no longer buy fake medicines in your pharmacies, but only medicines that are sold in two EU countries.
We need 100 days, dear people of Korça and Korça, so that you, for your children, for yourselves, for your parents, your elderly, have the same range of medicines that the Italian Republic has today for its citizens.
We need 100 days, so that no medicine is missing in our hospitals for the seriously ill.
We need 100 days, so that you, a small businessman, do not buy energy for 18 lek, but buy it for 6 lek.
To buy water at a halved rate. To pay for public space 5 times cheaper. You, a builder, to pay 10 times lower taxes for construction, not calculated with the sales price, but with the estimate.
We need 100 days, to establish a flat tax of 10%, and every businessman, every employee with a salary over 500 euros, will pay 10%, and 13% will remain for him. The salary will increase by 13%. The income will increase by 13%.
In 100 days, we need to reduce VAT by 15%.
So, to create a completely different space, hope and trust for Korça and Albania among the citizens.
We need 100 days for the farmers of Korça to have the same subsidies, absolutely the same as the farmers of Macedonia.
To have the same subsidies as the farmers of Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro.
To receive 5 times more subsidy for each livestock, for each seedling planted. And I guarantee you full seasonal protection of your products.
We need 100 days, Korça and Korça, regardless of your political beliefs, so that your fashion enterprises are no longer threatened by bankruptcy due to narcoeuros.
No, a board that will compensate you, every penny for the fall of the narcoeuros, will be set up within 100 days, and your workers will receive the salaries they deserve and you the profits you deserve.