It seems that the Democratic Party will not be the reason for the second time that the most important draft law, that of the budget for 2025, is voted for 7 minutes, as it happened a year ago. The draft budget for next year may also be the reason for the return of the opposition and normality in the Assembly.
The main demand of the opposition to be included in the discussions on the draft budget is the determination of the minimum living wage. According to the chief democrat Sali Berisha, there is a possibility that he will not be under the limit of 200 euro
After the presentation of the draft law on the budget by the government, Berisha accused the socialist majority that out of the 8.2 billion euros predicted for 2025, pensioners and families on economic assistance have been excluded from the increase. According to him, funds for public works will take the largest part, reducing investments in health and education.
With the possible return to Parliament, the opposition leader did not communicate any date for the next protest, nor the public institutions that the democrats can usurp until the demand for a technical government is met.
“Blaming businessmen at a time when contributions and social security have increased. Funds from the budget for these have been reduced. Secondly, to blame businesses at a time when the 8.2 billion euro budget is their entire product, a politician once used an expression that doesn’t suit me, but I’m reminding him that this means barking like a dog in an inn.
The pensioners who today receives more expensive bread than yesterday, who receives today a pension that buys at least 20% less than what he bought in 2013, have the right to say, in these 8 billion, what is our share. Why in Macedonia they get 250% more, why in Montenegro, they got 280% more, why Kosovo increased it by 20%, and handed over 100 million euros from the budget to the pension fund. It was 500, he made it 600.
What prevents you from transferring the 700 million euro surplus to the pension fund. There is no more unconscionable attitude. 8.2 billion euros were taken from the business. Pensioners have been left 16 million euros. Do you know what he did with them this year? This year, it took the 4% pensioners they were entitled to receive from March to October, and now it will give them a gift for the new year.
This is an unwashed act, to say the least, it will give you what the law, that the budget is a law voted in the parliament, does not have Kristaq Rama’s money here. And the law of the parliament gave them the indexation with 4%, while this one took it from March to October and now it will give them a gift for the new year.
His behavior towards pensioners is the most inhuman that anyone can do. We will send two laws. The vital minimum of 200 euros, calculated by the Ombudsman and the ILO. Jorida Tabaku has made an amendment for the miners. These are the two amendments, but the main amendment is that of the vital minimum,” said Berisha.
