FLASH
Shkruar nga Eduard Zaloshnja
Among the 115 questions in the CSDG Security Barometer (which was based on the rigorous statistical survey I conducted across the territory of Albania from April 6-15), there were 12 questions related to the government.
Thus, to the main question about the general assessment of the work of the government, only 34% of respondents answered positively!
To the question "Do you feel represented by the government at the central level (government and ministers)?", only 34.6% of the respondents answered positively. Meanwhile, only 26.4% of respondents think that Albanian citizens have any influence on what the government does. On the other hand, fully 78.2% think that big businessmen have influence on what the government does!
To the question "Does the government provide sufficient support for the unemployed?", only 15.5% of respondents answered positively. As for the other question "As a result of government policies in the last 5 years, do you think that the gap between the rich and the poor has become WIDER or NARROWER?", fully 81.3% were inclined to the opinion that the gap has widened. Furthermore, only 23.5% were of the opinion that the government takes into account the needs and views of ordinary citizens when formulating or changing economic policies.
To the question "How do you evaluate the results of the Albanian Government in the fight against corruption?", only 17.5% of respondents answered "good" or "very good"! Meanwhile, fully 82% think that the governors violate the law or abuse the power given to them (35% "always", 47% "most of the time"). And 87% of respondents who think so say that government officials who commit crimes go unpunished!
Positive sentiment about the government's work in various sectors was also at low levels. Specifically, Employment 16.3%, Agriculture 17.9%, Economy 19.1%, Education 33.7%, Health 36.3%, and Public Order 47.2%. Only in Tourism did the government's work get high marks - 72.5% of the respondents were inclined towards a positive assessment of the government's work in this sector.
Seeing that for almost every question about the government, a high or very high level of dissatisfaction is found among the Albanians here, it would be expected that tens of thousands filled the square in front of the Parliament last Thursday, when Berisha called for a grand protest. In fact, the reality was quite different - there were more policemen protecting the Parliament in the square than there were protesters in front of it...
But maybe the citizens are afraid to go out and protest against the government? The Security Barometer shows the opposite - only 16.5% of Albanians here believe that citizens who go out to protest may face reprisals from the government.
What about Basha, Shehaj, Lapaj, Qorri and other opposition politicians, why don't they call tens of thousands of their followers on social networks to go out and protest against the government, since there is a great dissatisfaction with it? Apparently they feel that they cannot inspire a mass protest movement, and are content with some party assembly in closed halls...
In fact, the entire opposition is perceived as anemic - from a survey I conducted in mid-May for Report TV, it turned out that only a quarter of the Albanians here lean towards a positive assessment of the activities of the opposition parties in general. Very few, when on the other hand, only 34% have a positive assessment of the government's work!
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