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Berisha promises to vegetable farmers: Subsidies will increase 5-fold, we will protect your products every season

Politiko 2025-04-09 20:23:13

Berisha promises to vegetable farmers: Subsidies will increase 5-fold, we will

The Chairman of the Democratic Party, Prof. Dr. Sali Berisha, at the presentation of the candidates in the city of Lushnja, presented the program of the 'Democratic Party-Alliance for a Greater Albania' as the best alternative for the future of Albanian citizens.

With the DP coming to power, Berisha promised to increase subsidies for farmers in Lushnja and all of Albania, as well as support for small and medium-sized businesses, guaranteeing that taxes would be reduced and salaries would increase.

Berisha : Dear friends, the DP and the Alliance for a Greater Albania come to you with the best program, with the program that they have never presented before the Albanians.
With the program that the Albanians have never known, the program of a Greater Albania.
I want to guarantee you that this program starts from the heart, from human compassion.
Because we, in one way or another, are a country today, where hundreds of thousands of citizens shed cold tears of misery.
We are a country in which tens if not hundreds of thousands of families cannot feed their children properly because their money is stolen by the government.
Today we are a country where hundreds of thousands of sick people cannot get their medicine.
Today we are a country where there are not a few families who set the table but do not have food for their children and are forced to say, "Let's go, take the roads, find our destiny." And the children just leave Albania.
Today we are the only country from which over 45 percent of Albanians left Albania, so we will start where the pain is.
We have decided that for 3 months, every Albanian who earns under 200 euros will receive 200 euros. Every Albanian will not sign under 200 euros on the payroll of this country.
200 euros is not much, but by international standards, 200 euros are outside extreme poverty. It is 6.3 euros a day and someone who earns that much is not in extreme poverty.
But we will put an end to misery, to counting the bites.
Not only with these, on the contrary, we will give all of these people a consumer card. The consumer card will mean that they will buy food 20 percent cheaper than others with medium and high salaries.
All of these people will have their medicines reimbursed 100 percent.
Pensioners will have the right to have complete free tests twice a year.
The list of medicines will be identical, 1 to 1 with Italy. We are not measured against Italy, but we will be measured in medicines. The sick in Albania will be treated with the same medicines that an Italian is treated with in Italy.
So, we will set some other standards because a terrible gap has been created between those who have and those who do not.
Low salaries in Albania will not be below 500 euros under any circumstances.
I guarantee entrepreneurs that the increase in salaries to 500 euros for employees will be compensated with tax cuts.
There is a right that must be respected.
The average salary will be 1200 euros.
Teachers will reach a salary of 1500 euros while they are paid more than any other teacher in the Balkans.
Energy will be sold to businesses for 6 lek out of the 18 that is sold to them today. It will be sold to families for 7 lek.
The water tariff will be halved.
So, with these measures, we believe that we are making the lives of our citizens in need easier to a certain extent.
This is certainly not Great Albania, but Gandhi said that the greatness of a nation is measured by the attitude they have towards those in need.
And we will have a radical change in the attitude towards them.
There are no poor people due to laziness. Politics has made the poor poor and we will change this policy.
My friends, there is no district, no city, no region that can become more magnificent than the Fier region, than the Lushnja region.
Everything in this region has been made magnificent by nature.
Lushnja has extraordinary agricultural potential.
Lushnja has wonderful farmers, people capable of hard work and sweat.
Lushnja has some of the most beautiful tourist beaches.
It has every potential.
So, Made in Lushnja, Made in Albania, national pride, Lushnja pride.
My friends, no one can produce more than the Lushnja farmer if you remove the evils that the regime has done to him.
If you guarantee him the conditions for his sweat to yield the products, the success he deserves. And we will do this.
First, we will equalize him with other farmers in the region. We will subsidize five times more.
We will increase the subsidy fund 5 times for each seedling, for field plants, for production units, for each head of livestock.
Yes, then let other farmers measure themselves with the Lushnja farmer and see who produces more and cheaper.
Lushnja will be the first.
Today, this regime, in order to open the doors to the destruction of agricultural production, has imposed an asymmetric VAT on collectors and processors of products.
I give you my word that in the first three months, a symmetrical tax will be imposed, which causes the processor to return to the farmer, so that he receives 20 percent VAT for the products he sells.
The Open Balkans, this agreement that destroyed thousands of farms, that brought the flood of subsidized products 8 times more than the products in Albania because of the Rama-Vučić brotherhood, will be thrown in the trash in the first week of the DP government.
A soft credit line, in which the government will pay 80 percent of the interest, will be offered to the farmers of Lushnja and all of Albania.
There is no more fertile land than Albanian land anywhere. This country does not have a single inch of land without fruit.
Lushnja's lands are becoming saline because there is no investment in anything.
Irrigation, drainage and soil protection will be three major priorities of the next government.
Wherever in the world there is overproduction, it happens that disasters cause damage. Even now I was informed that products have been damaged.
The government will have a compensation fund with the basic price of all damages resulting from natural factors or the stock of overproduction and their non-sale.
Although I tell you here, I declare here universally that we will protect your products in every season.
Every country does this, except Albania today.
Yes, we will protect them. Every country protects them. Except Edi Rama who destroyed the products. 2 thousand tons of potatoes rotted for a farmer in Pogradec because of the Open Balkans. Thousands of farms went bankrupt.
This ends.