 Berisha violates the bank deposits of the Albanians
 Edi Rama compared the current economic situation to that of 1996 when the country’s finances collapsed. During his weekly conversation with journalists, he said that just as in 1996 when due to the electoral expenses the government borrowed unaffordable amounts of money from the domestic market, today too, the electoral expenses stemming from 2009 mean that the government is faced with a bill it cannot afford. The government, Rama said, has increased borrowing from the domestic market because it is unable to collect the money it should collect from taxes, VAT and excise taxes, since the whole system has collapsed. The SP Chairman also accused the government of putting its hands into the bank deposits of the citizens in order to implement a ridiculous rise in pensions.
“The deposits which Sali Berisha is using thus threatening to cause a collapse of the whole system that feeds the economy, that stimulates the entrepreneurship that keeps alive the jobs it helps create, and which will not be able to borrow any longer from the banks because all the funds are going to the government’s pockets. And out of these pockets come the deposits of the Albanians which are given back to their families in the shape of a rise in pensions.”
The Chairman of the Socialist Party also touched upon the political crisis in the country. He reaffirmed the will of the Socialist Party to see its cause for transparency to the end and called on Sali Berisha to put an end to the political crisis.
“We will not take part in any voting process or initiative coming from this government which we will face with the full power of our resistance in a battle that will escalate again and again until Albania comes back to the principles of constitutionalism and transparency”. Rama also declared that he supported fully the decision of the Socialist Parliamentary Group not to vote any laws in Parliament ... read more |
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 Pensions rise, a ridiculous farce
In his speech in Parliament MP Erion Brace called the promised rise in pensions a ridiculous farce. Braçe declared that approximately 404 thousand pensions will be raised by 200 – 420 lek a month, at a time when only through the increased prises of energy and water the government is taking approximately 3000 lek a month from pensioners. Braçe said that a way to deal with the crisis should consist in making cuts to the Prime Minister’s salary and not by undertaking budget cuts ... read more
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Financial Inspection, a political law
The Deputy Chair of the Economy Commission, Mimi Kodheli reacted on the law on “Financial Inspection” which was discussed in Parliament. Kodheli said that the law is anti-constitutional and that it violates the autonomy of a number of independent institutions and centers of power, exposing them to political pressure by the government. She also declared that this law will bring no positive results in the fight against corruption which has already been lost by the Berisha government ... read more
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State captured by government’s monopolies
In a press conference, MP Erion Braçe accused the Berisha government of state capture through the monopolies it has created in various areas such as the oil industry, energy, and telephony. According to Braçe these monopolies are the product of an illegitimate government which owes its stay in power to the theft of votes, and they aim to enrich the clients of the family in power. Braçe declared that approximately 60 companies in Albania are making a profit of around 4 billion euros owing to these monopolies and that the cost of this is being paid by ordinary Albanians ... read more
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Government is suffocating local self-governance
To the call made to citizens by Democratic MP Mima for them not to pay their taxes to the Municipality, caused the deputy Chairman of the Socialist Parliamentary Group Eduart Shalsi to react. Shalsi said that the government has chosen to obstruct, block and kill local self-governance by any means it can. The government, he said, instead of ensuring the enforcement of the law, has become a promoter of its violation ... read more
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NO, to the hypocritical invitation to cooperate
The invitation extended to the opposition by Prime Minister Berisha for it to look to the future and cooperate, met with the reaction of MP Taulant Bala who said that the opposition shall not give up on its cause of transparency. Sali Berisha, he said, stole the elections in order to steal from the Albanian people. Without the transparency of the elections of June 28th, Balla declared, there will never be free and fair elections in Albania, and that is why, for the sake of the future of democracy in Albania, the opposition will see its action through ... read more
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Freedom House: Problematic democracy, no progress!
MP Vasilika Hysi reacted on the Freedom House report on democracy in Albania. She said that the report does not simply raise concerns about the worsening of a number of democratic indicators, but it also notes that there has not been a single improvement. The report, Hysi said, proves that under the rule of Sali Berisha Albania is sliding towards an increasingly authoritarian regime and that this crisis of democracy finds its origins in the manipulation of the elections of June 28th ... read more
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