Berisha appears with the number 1 hat and recalls the most difficult promise of his political life

Opposition leader Sali Berisha presented the candidates in Kamza this Friday. From the podium, with the number 1 hat on his head, he promised that all the problems of this city would end.

He emphasized that the force that has governed the country for 12 years forced 1 million and 99 thousand Albanians to leave the country.

Given these actions, which he said were inhumane and humiliating for the population, he vowed that in the first 100 days of the democrats' government, there would be no pensioner in the country who would not receive 200 Euros.

"And let me tell that 2-meter-tall coward who hides and can't come out, after you caught him red-handed stealing, he can't come out to confront you on television or on stage. No. What does he say? He says that if we increase the pension by 200 euros, we will fall into the abyss. Whereas yesterday he declared that we will do it in 2030. Is there a more irresponsible, more cynical statement?" said Berisha.

He further recalled the 2005 campaign, highlighting the most difficult promise of his political life.

"Please just a moment. In 2005 we promised to double salaries and I tell you one thing, it was the most difficult promise of my life because I don't know of any other administration that promised to double salaries at that time, but we kept it. I tell any Albanian, I can find a teacher, a nurse, a doctor, an employee who can tell you that his salary did not more than double during the years 2006-2013. All of them, without exception. We declared that we would double low pensions. The pension was 36 euros, each low pension became 83 euros", declared Berisha.

He accused the current government of impoverishing the country, increasing prices, and massive depopulation, stating that over 1 million Albanians have left from 2014 to 2023.

"From 2014 to 2023, 1 million and 99 thousand residents of Kamza and all of Albania left for the EU alone. My friends, those who took the dirt roads did not take them because they coveted wealth. They did not take them because they had no longing and love for their family. They did not take them because they did not love their country. But they took the roads because they could not live in Kamza, they could not live in Tirana, they could not live in Albania because this regime, Albania, Kamza, which grew in population from year to year, made Albania and Kamza unlivable. It made the table of Albanian families not even accept their own children, but told them, whatever fate has in store for them, take the roads of the world. Albanians did not leave because they wanted to leave, but they left because they could not buy medicine in their country, but they left because they could not pay their loans in their country, but they left because they could not buy houses in their country", said Berisha.