"He stole 24 hectares of land", Berisha: Rama and his ministers are killing competition in tourism

 

During a conversation with tourism associations in the country, the leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, described the tourism situation in Albania as a "jungle" created by corruption and abuse of power.

Berisha stressed that the tourism industry is facing great difficulties, while a narrow group including ministers and other government leaders are benefiting from the abuse of properties and construction permits, harming fair competition.

"The tourism industry faces many difficulties. There is no support. Some people like Pëllumb Gjoka or someone else have support, because there are many like them, who get permits for hotels, have motels, declare their hotels 5 stars, and give casino licenses to the one from Sinaloa, Luftim Hys, who of course, with Sinaloa's income, deeply damages the tourism industry. He has no income from his work.

The narcoeuro is a toxic currency for the tourism industry, for exports, for the Albanian economy. But in a narcostate, there is no narcostate without its own currency and the narcodictator, who has transformed these strategic titles into the biggest gamble not in Albania, but in Europe.

That such a title is rewarded with millions of narco euros. Plus, the involvement of government officials in the tourism industry is another extremely harmful element.

Now when Olta Xhaçka goes and steals 10,000 square meters of public land with her husband and presents it as her own inherited land, can you tell me what is left for this operator, this investor who buys the land for 150 euros or 100 euros to build on?

"Edi Rama himself goes and takes 225 thousand square meters of land in the name of his mother and brother, land without any cadastral document."

Berisha links this phenomenon to the lack of real support for tourism operators and attempts to plunder public assets, citing concrete examples of land theft by senior state officials.

"Land without any documents proving that it was confiscated by the communist regime. Land that could belong to anyone, but not to the Koleks, since Spiro Kolek himself says that they had no land. He says we had no land, his nephew gets 24 hectares because he became prime minister. But this kills fair competition in a barbaric way."

Vilma Nushi. The poorest Nushi there. He goes and builds the tourist village without permission, without anything. In this respect, these gentlemen who survive this competition, this jungle that the government has created in this industry, are true heroes because they are placed in the most unequal conditions.

"Everywhere the industry is delicate. Everywhere the hospitality industry is delicate. Everywhere the restaurant system is delicate and requires good management, but it also requires honest rules. And these people are faced with a real jungle that is run by the government."