While the Parliament is discussing today the fiscal package, PM Edi Rama
declared that 540 million USD were put to service of citizens during
these years that his government was in power.
“In the past eight years, the government passed 124 million USD. We have 540 million USD for our citizens, and this doesn’t include the pay raise for the Police, which would take it to 580 million”, Rama declared.
He said that on the same time, the government had to pay 720 million USD of hidden debts left by the previous government.
“We had to face a real financing crisis with the work sites unfinished. The past government said they had built 10.000 kilometers of roads. Now in opposition they say they built 11.000. The truth is they have built only 1744 kilometers, and have paid only 34% of the contracted value”, Rama said.
Rama said his government’s budget avoided collapse and brought a stable economic growth. “Our economy was growing between 0 and 1%. Now it is between 3.3 and 3.5%. We are raising salaries and pensions with this budget, and we are funding reforms for modernizing our government. We are improving public finances and stimulating good governing”, Rama said.
Rama then added that health care novelties will help hundreds and thousands of families in need. List of reimbursement medicaments will be extended to 600.000 Albanians who don’t pay insurance and who have not benefited so far. From January they will be totally reimbursed, according to Rama.
The PM promised that the government will invest 3% of the GDP in the health sector, or 52 million USD, 31 of which in partner companies.
The former Minister of Finances, Ridvan Bode, reacted after Rama’s declaration and said that the only thing this government has done was raising taxes for citizens.
According to him, Albanians have paid 2 billion USD more taxes during these three years and a half, while the entire GDP is 2.45 billion. Bode said that the pension raise is also a farce and the unemployment level has reached the peak, since this government came to power.
The Minister of Finances, Arben Ahmetaj, answered back by saying that today’s opposition left the country in a bankrupt economic state. He published numbers which, according to him, could lead Albania to the Greek scenario, and if the new government had not acted, there would be no money to pay police salaries and even pensions.
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