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Berisha in Puka: Water is life, we will establish a board to compensate businesses damaged by the euro

Politiko 2025-04-21 18:06:50

Berisha in Puka: Water is life, we will establish a board to compensate

The leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, visited today the premises of the 'Lajthiza' water factory in Lajthiza, Puka. During the visit, Berisha promised that if the DP comes to power, they will do everything to restore the assets of these areas.

PUKA- Part of Berisha's speech:

You started in more difficult conditions than anyone else, here the terrain itself and the distances, but in very special conditions you have achieved this success to make it bigger and bigger, and to make Lajthiza famous not only in Albania, but also in the Balkans and Europe. Truly, you have walked without real support, they have tried at all costs to make you fail, but you have triumphed. We will do everything to increase consumption. The truth is that what has suffered the most from the departure of people is consumption and production, production and consumption. I was in the market and one of the most painful things was that no one buys us. Shops are open and no one buys us. Another one told me, here as you see I am the youngest. There was no other. And a big decline, a big decline first of all from the decline in purchasing power, because if you do not follow the increase in prices which is a natural phenomenon. The increase in prices in this system is a natural phenomenon of economic development. An economy that doesn't increase prices is sick.

It has every year, when it does not grow it is sick, when it decreases it is even more of a problem. But prices increase and wages increase, that's how it goes. The basic law is that prices increase and wages increase. All of that is affordable. It increases consumption, production. But this rapid population decline. Yesterday the UN published the data, Albania with the largest drop in births in the world, due to emigration. But your work here is an inspiration, Hajri, it is truly inspiring. The state will intervene to support exports, it will intervene to support production, but also exports. Because in our conditions, the export sector is the main one for production. From 2023-2024 according to official statistics it decreased by 32%. It destroyed the euro. We have a project, we will establish a board of compensation for all exporters, compensation due to the variation of the euro exchange rate. We will compensate for every cent of the euro that falls due to reasons that they say are tourism, but which have nothing to do with tourism, but slowly, slowly enough to cut off their channels and become normal like we were.

A board to compensate for the fluctuations of the euro. It will be established because exports are of vital importance. We have been kept by remittances coming from abroad that compensate, because if they were not there, Albania would go bankrupt. We have a sentence, water is life. Norman Bethune, a famous Canadian doctor, has left it immortal. He went to help the Chinese army, in the civil war because there was a lot of bloodshed there, he went as a volunteer, a humanist and ended up in the ward. But he was also sick. A wound became infected and now, who would take care of the sick. He tells the nurse, give him saline solution because it is life, in fact water is life. No matter how many other drinks are produced, for some like my job, water remains life. It is wonderful water, rare water.

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