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In Albania, it is being noticed that many people in the media want to defend or justify the assets, the many houses, the villas, the luxurious expenses of high politicians.
Dressing in expensive things, shopping in expensive stores, large and luxurious expenses, many houses in different countries, villas on the coasts of seas or important cities of Europe and the world are something that politicians in the West and in democratic countries avoid even when they are very rich.
It is in ethics and political morality that the representative of the people, even when he is a billionaire, even when he has inherited great wealth, should not give in to luxury and an expensive life, not to give in to villas and huge expenses or the purchase of many houses.
Last year for example in Britain, when the race between Lizz Truss, Foreign Minister and Rishi Sunak, Minister of Finance for Prime Minister took place, the press wrote at length about the way they dressed and lived.
Lizz Truss styled hers using €5 shoes and €4.50 earrings from Claire Accessories. Sunak used 400 euro Prada shoes.
Everyone said this favored Truss and hurt Sunak. And he lost in front of her (not only because of that, of course).
This is not because the English love poverty or the poor, but because they love modesty and a sense of devotion, a sense of not being swayed by pleasure and lust.
Rishi Sunak was Britain's richest MP, even richer than Queen Elizabeth, because his wife, Murty, is the daughter of an Indian billionaire who owns Infosy.
Sunak himself has worked in the biggest banks in the world and has also earned a lot of money. Even Liz Truss is rich.
She had at least 10 million euros in assets. She had worked at Shell and many other powerful companies. So they were both rich.
Sunak was not being judged to be wasting stolen money or money earned without work or inheritance.
He was being judged to seem indulgent in luxury expenses, when the servant of the people should be otherwise.
Truss was not poor but she was valued because she lived modestly and was dedicated.
Years ago, the wife of David Cameron, the English Prime Minister, used a Mini Cooper car that cost 5 thousand pounds. She was very very rich.
He came from a family of great heritage. She used a car and expensive goods, because, as she said herself, "the prime minister must respect his people in every sense. We can't walk around in luxury despite being rich," she said.
In Albania, it is being noticed that many people in the media want to defend or justify the assets, the many houses, the villas, the luxurious expenses of high politicians.
This is a higher degree of moral corruption than anything else. These politicians have neither worked in banks nor in business, and they have no inheritance.
They are enriched by taking public money and nothing else and it is unacceptable to spend such expenses, buy villas or houses or visit very expensive places.
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