During a meeting with the farmers of Belshi, the former prime minister Sali Berisha was asked if it is the right time to overturn the law 7501 on land allocation.
Berisha said that he cannot promise to overturn it as a law, as according to him, now other relations have been established after 30 years. He stopped at the time when this law was passed, for which he declared that he was not convinced.
Citizen : Law 7501 has killed the Albanian farmer for the second time. Is it time to overturn this law? To be with our neighbors.
Berisha : You can ask me many times about that law, I also tell you, it was voted by us contrary to what I had in my conviction. My belief is that the north is conservative and there the land has been divided according to the previous borders without any problem. We come to central Albania. When I was party chairman, 3 months. I was going to Ndroq, I had come out with the slogan "God's land". I had no idea it could be done any other way.
The villagers tell me that if you continue with this, you will never be voted by us. The lords of the vote was the village. I used to go to Korça and Lushnje, I found the same attitude. They told me to forget it, if you hold the concept of the land of God, there are no votes. What was there? The regime turned the village into a human reserve, when there were 3 families, they became 15 families. What was the foreign exchange reserve of the state that year, it was 4 million dollars. There was nothing. What can be done, the land market can be stimulated. Telling you now that I'm going to undo that law, I can't take it on. Because other 30-year possession relationships have been created. What the government can do to expand, stimulate the market and credit the land market.
I think everything will be judged with time. I am taking a village in which 300 inhabitants lived in the 90s. If 200 of them were left without land, the state had no potential to help them. It was not invented, but it was not right. The land of the one who works and lives there. Bulgaria used the same law. He later changed the law, but Bulgaria has land area per capita, possibly 10 times more than Albania. If there's one thing we're short on, it's land. It is several hundred meters per capita, the lowest amount of land per capita in Europe.