Democratic Party leader Sali Berisha held his final campaign rally in Tropoja on Sunday, calling on citizens not to vote for current Prime Minister Edi Rama.

Berisha condemned what he described as the intolerable reality of Rama’s ministers living in luxury while advising Albanian pensioners on how to survive on a monthly pension of just 140,000 old lek.

“You’ve surely heard that old saying, that no one dies of hunger here. And I say this because it used to be true—people would share their bread with one another. That was generosity, that was the spirit of charity. But for ministers to declare that things are fine in Albania because ‘no one dies of hunger’—those are words that should never be spoken. It’s not about dying of hunger, it’s about living with dignity. It’s about not having to count every bite. It’s about ensuring that the men and women who sacrificed their lives for Tropoja and for Albania are not left struggling to make it through the month on their meager pensions.

It’s about making sure they don’t have to beg for medicine because they can’t afford it. It’s about ensuring that our youth, our children, can build their dreams here in Albania—not dream about how to flee from Tropoja and the country.

Instead, these officials insult the Albanian people with remarks like ‘no one dies of hunger here.’

Or take the ministers—dressed up like princesses from sultanates—telling Albanians that pensioners are doing just fine. That you can live comfortably on 140 euros a month.

This disconnect, this abandonment of the people due to looting—because thieves, in justifying their theft, come to despise their victims. They think, ‘They deserved it.’

And so do the ministers, saying ‘You deserved it.’

Friends, within our first 100 days in office, we will give a definitive answer: every Albanian will receive a minimum living wage of 200 euros.

Today, 560,000 pensioners live on less than 172 euros a month. All of them—whether they receive 60, 100, or 170 euros—will get 200 euros in our first 100 days of governance,” Berisha stated, among other things.