
Former Prime Minister Sali Berisha said that a payment of 200 euros should be set for the minimum wage, while he said that Albania is in an economic emergency situation.
"Today there is a big gap, among the biggest that a nation can have, between the rich and the poor in Albania. Today there is a great rupture within the nation, de facto there is an exclusion and a threat of exclusion from life with the most basic conditions of hundreds of thousands of Albanians, according to the IMF of 48 percent of Albanians, according to Eurostat this risk is for 60 percent of Albanians .
The truth is that this huge income gap in Albania is bigger than in any other nation in the Balkans and in Europe. There is a fundamental cause that has created this terrible gap, it is the great theft that is done to the citizens, the enrichment by stealing from the poor of the governors and oligarchs, their clientele. Albania is the only country that does not guarantee its citizens, does not protect them with a vital minimum, with which they can buy food as individuals and as a family, and in addition to food, a little more than half of the income must be they are left to meet other needs. The Ombudsman has calculated this vital minimum at around 200 euros. Today, the average subsistence minimum in the EU is 840 euros, so a quarter is calculated, while we must be real,
However, the establishment of a payment of 200 euros as a vital minimum per person is without question a response to the emergency situation in which Albania is located. From this payment, more than 85 percent of pensioners benefit, who are among this payment, all families with economic assistance benefit, who receive a ridiculous amount of support, a maximum of 8 thousand lek, other categories benefit and students should benefit, they should young people benefit. In a word, the extension, the establishment by law is a legal response that is given to this catastrophic situation where the country is, with a great threat of poverty and misery, like no other country in Europe", said Berisha during his speech .
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