Prime Minister’s hidden unemployment statistics

But Ilir Beqaj, the Secretary for the Socialist Party Program, says that the Prime Minister is mistaken with his figures, since the INSTAT denies it with official data. According to Beqaj, Berisha intentionally miscalculates the figures for concealing the truth.

“The Prime Minister declared that there are 300.000 preschool Albanians, which means children born before after 2006. If 300.000 children have been born in these years, it means that 50.000 of them have been born annually. But INSTAT gives other statistics, saying that there are 191.000 preschool children, while Berisha says 300.000. This means that the President’s margin of error is 35%. The Prime Minister declared that there are 320.000 farms in the rural areas, but INSTAT says that 65.000 families that live in rural areas receive social assistance. So, if there are 320.000 families, 61.000 of them are unemployed. This is another big margin of error. The Prime Minister tried to bring the number of retired people, saying that there are 560.000 of them in Albania. This list is composed of three groups of our legislation. There are 430- 450.000 retired people, together with the invalidity pensions, and most of them are pensions received by the children who have lost on of the parents while they were doing their jobs. But we cannot count these children at the same time as preschool children and students, or return and count them altogether. We have the same numbers for the retired people. Berisha’s error is 50.000 at the family pensions, 120.000 with the social assistance, and 110.000 with the preschool children. The Prime Minister has 280.000 mistakes. With a population as ours, it is very tragic for the Prime Minister to be wrong about 110th of the population”, Beqaj declared.

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