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Berisha promises: Teachers' salaries at the beginning of their mandate will be 1,500 euros

Politiko 2025-04-06 12:14:29

Berisha promises: Teachers' salaries at the beginning of their mandate will

In the education sector, DP Chairman Sali Berisha guaranteed from Elbasan a significant increase in teachers' salaries, which will go up to 1,500 euros by the end of the mandate. Berisha also promised the digitalization of schools and the end of patronage practices in Albanian education, returning teachers to their pedestal.

Berisha : My friends, the fate of Elbasan will be its greatness.
The fate of Elbasan will be the magnificent Elbasan.
The magnificent Elbasan begins with the most accomplished virtue of the good Albanian spirit.
We cannot accept this terrible gap that has been created in our society.
We cannot accept that those who brought Albania on their shoulders, melted their sweat, melted their years, melted their lives, are now treated worse than a house dog in Germany. To receive a lower pension than that country pays for domestic animals.
This is over. This is not the spirit of Elbasan, on the contrary, our most important virtue has been charity and the state that is not inspired by this virtue does not deserve to exist.
Therefore, we will take the first step towards a great Elbasan and a great Albania by establishing a living wage of 200 euros for every pensioner, every student, every householder, every citizen who signs the Albanian state payroll.
Over 560 thousand pensioners benefit from this, all students who deserve a scholarship benefit, all those who are on economic assistance benefit.
200 euros is not much, but there is a criterion, with 6.3 euros per day, extreme poverty is excluded. Every free country does not accept extreme poverty and we, in the first 100 days of our government, will eradicate it from Albania.
We will eradicate it from Albania and towards them, towards this layer, who today receive 40-50 times less than the highest earner.
Absurdly, there is no such thing in the world.
For this layer, we will use the consumer card. They will buy food, getting VAT back. That is 450 euros minimum in a year.
Minimum wages will increase to 500 euros. I ask for entrepreneurs' understanding. I understand that this is a burden, but I give you my word of honor that we will reduce taxes to such an extent that they will have more money left in their accounts than before.
My friends, the country, society, nation can never be great if it does not provide proper assistance to those who live in more difficult conditions. If it deepens the gap between the rich and the poor as it is today. So this ends.
But I am here in the cradle of Albanian education.
I recall today a special day in my life, in 2005, I promised in this city to the teachers of Albania the doubling of their salaries. I am here today in Elbasan to promise the teachers of Albania that at the end of a mandate, their salaries will be 1500 euros.
I am here today to promise this city, the cradle of education, to Albanian teachers that they will not leave the education system due to lack of hours. No, classes will be reduced to 20-25 students and they will keep their jobs.
I am here to promise the teachers of Albania that digital boards will be installed in the country's schools. Deep digitalization of the education system.
I am here to promise that the party school for principals and the party portal for teachers will end on May 12.
They were used as traps to create patronageists and militants in education. No, our teachers will be respected in all their dignity and I tell them and the Albanians, if we do not put the teacher on a pedestal, our school will never raise its head.
We had some results in these first efforts that we made a few years ago. We achieved a vertical climb in the PISA test. But what happened behind? What happened after the party portal was installed? What happened after the schools were filled with patronageists?
A sharp decline in the quality of education. Albanian students are the last in the world for creative thinking.
But there is a law, no matter how low you fall, you should never hesitate to get back up. And we will get back up. We will bring education back to where it was.