Hallexji of Fevzo and the tin of Prime Minister's figures

2024-11-01 15:56:00, Opinione Ermal Mulosmani

Hallexji of Fevzo and the tin of Prime Minister's figures

Blendi Fevziu and Edi Rama

Last night was one of the best interviews of Prime Minister Edi Rama in Opinion. And the credit for this goes to the least expected: the retired viewers of Opinion!

After the Prime Minister explained in detail the Government's achievements and compared them with the distant 2013, several things became clear:

1) The number of contributors (i.e. employees aged 15-65 who pay social insurance) has increased from 510,000 to 810 thousand, i.e. +300 thousand contributors;

2) The money collected from the scheme has increased from 361 million Euros to 1 billion 222 million Euros, that is, it has tripled;

3) The number of pensioners has increased from 570 thousand to 705 thousand since 2013;

4) The average pension in 2013 was 101 Euros, while in 2023 it is 183 Euros.

Journalist Ermal Mulosmani

After this detailed overview, with sources from the IMF, the Prime Minister expected the understanding of the pensioners, adding that if he adds the budget part to the scheme, the state will end up worse than Sudja then.

It must be said that the Prime Minister used some tricks in his statistics. The trick used was the Euro, the most depreciated currency in time since 2013. So, if we convert the 361 million Euros of 2013 into the current Lek, they were about 50.5 billion Lek, while if we convert the 1.222 billion Euro of today's scheme into Lek, it is 119 billion Lek. So, approximately 1 to 2, not 1 to 3 as the Prime Minister said.

The average pension of 101 Euros in 2013 was approximately 14,500 ALL, while today's 183 Euros are 17,900. So the monthly increase in 11 years is only 3,400 ALL or +23%. Not +81% as the Prime Minister said.

However, the increase in the number of contributors and their money in the scheme has been commendable. I had a status about this a few days ago. What has not increased at all is the budget contribution to the scheme. And the Prime Minister says that if this contribution increases (which according to him is about 500 million euros) we will become a Pyramid like Sudja. In fact, 500 million Euros is about 6% of the State Budget and will come every year and decreasing. The Prime Minister said that the only source of growth is the obligation of contributors to pay as much as they deserve and not as much as they pay, in order to fight evasion.

Prime Minister Edi Rama

After he explained this scheme well enough, after he well tinned the rust of the plight of the elderly, Fevziu gives the floor to a retired spectator who asks a question that is not at all sympathetic to the problems of the Government and the Prime Minister:

"I have a pension of 200,000 lek (old ones for sure). Tell me how to live with them, please."

Here the Prime Minister got nervous. What is this people that does not understand even when you explain it in detail?! Do these masquerades understand that even that small annual indexation is 100 million Euros for the state budget?! (Actually, a little later he gave another figure: in 11 years the indexation was 204 million Euros or an average of 20 million Euros/year. But this went unnoticed. Plus the manipulative fact of returning the Lek to the Euro).

There began the foaming, the irony, the rebuke of the prime minister. The spectators, one after the other, took out the tin. One told him that I have a pension of 95 thousand ALL. The Prime Minister explained that taxes (ie the budget) are not for the elderly.

"Taxes - he said - are for children, not for the elderly. Taxes are to invest for schools, for nurseries, for kindergartens, for all things... The more you get from taxes, the more it hits them, the more it hits them, it hits the country, it hits development. Therefore, a balance is needed, they cannot be taken from taxes and pensions can be introduced because society is dying, completely, it cannot breathe. Except it goes into those financial horrors (Sudet).

This is where another female pensioner intervenes: What are you going to do with the pensions"...

The prime minister explains that the pensioners must keep the children. The lonely pensioner shakes her head in annoyance, the Prime Minister gets nervous and points her out.

This was a different situation from the social understanding that the Prime Minister finds every time he communicates his numbers to selected retired patron-Nazis who make hosannas at electoral meetings.

To get out of the nervous situation of misunderstanding, the Prime Minister chose to move to Health.

Prime Minister Edi Rama

According to him, "In England they wait 3 months to do an X-ray for a broken arm, in Italy they wait 6 months for a scanner. When they come here, they want it not within a day, they want it within an hour."

A conflicting hilarity breaks out among the residents who go to hospitals every day, each has his own experience, completely opposite to that of the Prime Minister.

"My daughter has been waiting 5 months for the scanner at the state hospital," says one. "They left a resonance with February 22" - says the desert. But the Prime Minister does not accept. To get out of the situation he says: "We'll talk together later, it doesn't exist"...

The lonely pensioner feels bad, says the famous joke:

"Maybe you Mr. Prime Minister don't know all the details..."

Fevzo laughs...

"Maybe I don't know" - says the Prime Minister. "But maybe you don't know either." I'm telling you that's not how I follow things on the ground.

But the situation gets out of control. Another lady intervenes and says that I booked a coronary as early as February and I did it now. The prime minister realizes that he has reached a dead end and withdraws from health. It goes to the oil. Clarifies to pensioners that the turnover tax. But the poor don't let it go easily: "I paid money for the doctor when I had my thyroid removed."

This is the interview I want. Real people, hallelujahs, who receive 100 euros a month, who go to the doors of hospitals and who.... vote for the SP. Let them vote but talk.

These are questions that unravel the beautiful fabric of propaganda, that refuse to discuss facts and figures. You can't explain Adam Smith to a man when he's in an existential crisis. He just doesn't listen to you. Nor does it deal with your right. Such a person has his own troubles, he can't wait to shout that he is hurting. You tell him that he is doing good for society. You say that taxes are not for you, but you give us votes because the others will destroy the state. And steal that double pension with free hospitals! And in the end you regret: