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OPINEWS

The first vote in favor of the DP comes from Edi Rama

Politiko 2025-04-03 19:26:18

By Ervin Salianji

With just a few days left before the May 11 elections, the public declaration of votes will likely begin, as has often happened. It is understandable that the Opposition is hesitant to declare it, given how malignant, vindictive and repressive the government is.
But, to everyone's surprise, the first vote that was cast in favor of the DP came from the one least expected. From Edi Rama.
Not only does he agree with the Democrats' program, but he would do the same thing.
The autocrat presented the Opposition's proposals as his own ideas, thread by thread.
So he completely agrees with the 200 euro living minimum, with the increase in pensions on this basis, with the 500 euro minimum wage, with the 1200 euro average wage.
Could Sali Berisha's DP find a better spokesperson for its platform than someone who has Edi Rama's access to the media?
It is unlikely that it could.
The leader of Rilindja has told his followers to support the DP program.
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Someone who has led the most corrupt government on the continent for 12 years certainly does not have the nerve to blush for plagiarism or program theft. If he is trying to make those proposals ridiculous by bringing them out of his mouth, he has not done his calculations well.
The DP project is totally feasible. Even the most skeptical and leftists know well that if it comes to making this revolution in salaries and pensions, in eradicating poverty, they would not trust the one who brought this situation to this point, and who had 3 mandates to correct it and never did, but they would trust the one who has implemented this transformation in the past.
By announcing the program, Edi Rama added another meter to his facade, nothing more. Because in reality, he is showing every day that his model is towers, towers, and towers.
These buildings enrich a handful of people even more, they put dirty money in high floors, but they bring nothing to the people, to the economy.
Pensions and salaries do not increase with skyscrapers, nor with resorts.
They increase with the growth of the economy, with the liberation of the market, with the opening of competition, with the flat tax, with the simplification of bureaucracy.
There is no doubt that some of these projects with skyscrapers, with resorts are interesting. But they do not reflect the real pulse of the stunted, deficient body of our society, of our country. When a large part of the citizens cannot close the month, what does the news about new glimmers of luxury of concrete and glass tell them.
Edi Rama is showing that he is determined to follow this path. That he has an interest in that handful of clients around him. For him, the rest does not exist. But on May 11, it is precisely the forgotten, the oppressed, the abandoned who will have their say. Someone may have received public land, a new permit, a new resort, but he only has 1 vote. It is very little to keep such a charade in power.
The second Sunday of May will show it.