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The vice president of the Democratic Party, Orjola Pampuri, said that for our pensioners and parents, we should not stop talking every day of the year.
In a post made on Facebook, Pampuri writes that it is unacceptable that at the end of the year pensioners face the impossibility of feeling under the atmosphere of the end of the year holidays, like every citizen of this country.
Pampuri said that the government spends millions of euros on PPP concessions, while pensions increased by a value of only 600 Lek
She underlined that today, over 700,000 citizens, pensioners are on the poverty line, as their monthly income is below the vital minimum.
"In a country where the government allocates hundreds of millions of euros per year for burners that don't work, for tests and medical instruments that do not realistically address the illnesses and consequences in the public health of the population, nor justify the impact on the citizens, the taxpayers of this country.
On the other hand, there has been a lack of financial treatment for hundreds of thousands of citizens, the pensioners of Albania, to enable them to live a life that at least feels worthy of the tens of years of contribution they have given to our Albanian society, to the country's economy, to the nation and for the very generations that have outlined them.
Throughout this year, pensions increased by a value of only 600 Lek per month or 20 Lek per day. The government distributed a fund just 2 weeks before the start of the campaign for the local elections, despite being in violation of the Electoral Code for the use of government programs with financial effects. A second fund was distributed only for the last 3 months of the year.
According to INSTAT data, the prices of basket products during the year we are closing have increased by at least 15% compared to the previous year. According to EUROSTAT, only for the month of November, the average index in Albania was 4.5%, an increase higher than the average of the eurozone countries, which was only 3.1%. For 11 consecutive months, more than half of the basic consumer products of the population continued to have a double-digit growth, a trend that indicates the difficulty of purchasing power in the country.
Apparently, this addition of only 600 lek per month during the 12-month period, could not even bear half of the burden of additional expenses due to the effect of the increase in the prices of basic products.
The replacement ratio is reaching exhaustion, where for 2022 it was 1.1 contributors for 1 retirees. More than 1/3 of the pension fund is filled by the state budget revenues, which is making the whole scheme to be at long-term risk.
There are certainly solutions to change the situation, but this government has proven for 10 years now that there is no will to solve it. It is enough to look at the gap between salaries and pensions that is deepening year by year, where today, a pension is as much as ¼ of the average salary.
The Democratic Party of Albania and I, as legislators, proposed 8 amendments for next year's budget, with the primary aim of focusing on people, on citizens who face difficulties, on pensioners and the impossible, on farmers, on young people and on business. .
This budget has all the possibilities to make the appropriate redistribution of their taxes in society. Every Albanian family deserves a life with dignity, and the state has the moral obligation and responsibility to enable it," she writes on Facebook.
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