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Berisha: Property and ownership are the main pillars of conservative principles

Politiko 2025-03-19 19:21:13

The Chairman of the Democratic Party, Prof. Dr. Sali Berisha, during the presentation of the DP's governance program for the years 2025-2019 on property, emphasized the importance of property and ownership as fundamental pillars of conservative principles, linking them to individual freedom and the development of a country. Berisha said that, during the communist regime, an anti-property mentality was created, where private property was seen as an evil. The dictatorship had a great impact in this regard, creating a culture where it was shameful to declare oneself as an owner, while landowners were limited in their rights. Berisha also criticized Law 7501, arguing that it was a consequence of an anti-property mentality, making it very difficult to return seized properties and restore private wealth in Albania. The democratic leader considers this law unjust and dictated by a difficult reality and the psychology of the previous regime.

Berisha : Property and ownership, the right to it, are one of the most important pillars of conservative principles and thought. They are inseparable from individual freedom. They are inseparable from the system of free initiative, stability and development of a country.

For those who have experienced the communist dictatorship, if there were two directions in which this dictatorship succeeded, one was the direction of creating a very large atheistic layer out of fear in the Albanian people. The savage persecution of the clergy and others. The open punishments of religious rites. The rest of the population was subdued and made to give up their belief in God in one way or another.

This is evident even today, where in the population census, a large portion of Albanians are registered as atheists, when before the dictatorship they had never been so.

But we must admit that the dictatorship had a similar success with its attitude towards property. In the manifesto of Karl Marx, who is absolutely the philosopher of planetary terrorism, private property is declared the 'mother matrix', the mother of all evils, and its destruction is declared as the major objective of the communist system.

What happened in that system? Now, it's not even worth remembering, but they had great repercussions in the past. In that system, it became a matter of pride to say that I was poor, it became a matter of pride to say that the reform had not affected my biography, it became a matter of pride to say that you were more supported.
So, did the dictatorship create an anti-private property mentality? Yes, it did, it cannot be denied. And did this mentality, this psychology, continue after the fall of the communist dictatorship? It continued and is, not in power, but it is still alive today.

The first laws that we passed were dictated laws, of course another reality existed, difficult. But, absolutely my friends, those were laws dictated by that anti-property psychology, in which recognition, return and in many aspects the transformation of Albania into a human reserve was limited to 5 thousand meters, 10 thousand meters, making it very difficult to immediately return the lands to the owners.
But, if it were not for this psychology, I am very sure that law 7501 would not be what it is.
So, law 7501, an unjust law against property, was first dictated by a reality where 75% of Albanians were confined to the countryside, and if you took away their land, they would be left with only the sky covered, but there is no question that that definition, that law was based on an open anti-property psychology. So, this in the attitude towards the owners.