"The budget for culture is the most ridiculous budget", Berisha: Worse than in any occupation

The leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, has criticized the state of Albanian culture, calling it worse than in any previous period of occupation.

At the press conference, Berisha said that the ruling political mafia has led to the destruction of the country's cultural infrastructure, emphasizing that this is an attack on national heritage and art.

He explained that the budget for culture is ridiculous, while artists are left abandoned and without support.

Excerpt from the speech of the leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha:

Today I will present to you the vision and program of the Democratic Party for culture. The situation of Albanian culture is worse than in any occupation that Albania may have had.

The political mafia in power, for mafia and anti-Albanian reasons, has destroyed all the infrastructure that existed and exists in every capital city in the world for art and culture, except for the opera and ballet theater.

The flattening of the national theater in a genocidal act against national culture, the same fate with cinemas, children's theaters and other cultural institutions, are evidence of the narco-exponents' contemptuous attitude towards Albanian culture.

The budget for culture is the most ridiculous budget. Cultural heritage is the object of all-out barbaric aggression by the Albanian and international mafia.

Albania is one of the richest countries in the world in cultural heritage. It is ending up in mafia and destructive partnerships for this wealth. Artists are today the most abandoned, the most unsupported people.

Artistic life in our capitals is almost non-existent. Annual events, in which painters and sculptors, people of the visual arts, presented their creations, no longer exist. The art gallery waxed without an activity.

In Albania, the only art talked about is Edi Rama's scribbles, which never saw the light of day before he became prime minister.

Don't forget that in the first act, after taking office, he appeared at the Venice Biennale, taking advantage of his position, and there he received the stigma from prominent art critics, the assessment that it was the scribbles of a drugged teenager.

Yes, there are two famous Italian journalists who made this assessment of Edi Rama.

And you don't hear about Albanian artists being represented in contemporary art anymore because they don't have any kind of support here, any kind of opportunity, even though there are great talents among them, real talents.