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Former Deputy Prime Minister Arben Ahmetaj has spoken again from Switzerland, where he is now after leaving Albania. He gave an interview to journalist Vincent WJ van Gerven Oie. He also touched on the situation in the Socialist Party. According to Ahmetaj, the Socialist Party has degraded.
Ahmetaj: In my life, I have some things that I am proud of, I say this very modestly. And I can mention the year 1991. Then the closure of pyramid schemes with the then Minister of Finance Arben Malaj and Prime Minister Fatos Nano.
Then, I am proud of the battles I fought on behalf of the Socialist Party in the elections and also for the development of the country. I am proud of having reduced the budget deficit in a time of economic crisis to 1.6%, a historical record. I am proud of having reduced the public debt and of having rewritten the budget law to impose strict financial discipline on local governments and the government. I am proud of my endless efforts and sleepless nights to organize the reconstruction process after the 2019 earthquake or to find vaccines during the pandemic. But I also take my moral responsibility, because I had a lot of trust in that person and I was very naive.
Of course, I have talked many times with my colleagues who are currently in the government and with former ministers about how many things have been distorted. The Socialist Party has already lost its socialist soul and the parliament is no longer a parliament in the true sense of the word, because it is under the dictates of a single person. I have never seen the media in this state. I have never seen organized crime so close to politicians and in fact directly influencing government decision-making. And then the corruption in infrastructure, in water, in energy, in information technology or even in the health system is terrible.
So, yes, I have my moral responsibility. For many years, I trusted this man. He was very dear to me. I thought he would change Albania.
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