"Census, a fraud"/ Berisha: The population is never what is claimed

2024-06-02 21:54:00, Politikë CNA

"Census, a fraud"/ Berisha: The population is never what is claimed

The chairman of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha

The chairman of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, accused Edi Rama's government this evening of having cheated with the number of census figures.

In his speech at the protest on "Mustafa Matohiti" street, Berisha declared that the population not only in the suburbs, but also in Tirana and Durrës is not what is claimed.

He published the figures of the Eurostat report, stressing that during Rama's government, more than 1 million Albanians fled Albania.

Excerpt from the statement:

Citizens, you should know that the population census every 10 years is a state obligation for every country, to build social, economic and overall policies. The 2011 census ended on October 20, it was published on December 21, 2011. But the 2011 census was done with paper forms that were scanned in a scanner. And of course scanning millions of forms required and took a total of 6 weeks. What about the 2023 census?

The 2023 registration was done with digital forms, filled in on the tablet, which were transferred directly to the main server as soon as the data registration was completed. What should I say with this?

The moment when the last Albanian completed the registration, all the registration data were ready. But what happened my friends! The registration data was ready, the day, the hour, the minute that the last Albanian completed the registration. Well, we don't have any data today or now. Because in this census the Albanians came out less than in Kosovo.

Because no more than 1 million 420 thousand Albanians appeared in this census. Because the population not only in the suburbs, but also in Tirana and Durrës is never what is claimed. The number is fraud, fraud and only fraud.

Now let me read to the Albanians, in front of you, the exact figure given by Eurostat and the statistics of Great Britain for Albanian immigrants, Albanian citizens who left from 2014-2022. These data show that 191,670 Albanian citizens have requested political asylum in the EU. That there are 311,650 Albanians in unregistered illegality in the Schengen area. That 487,225 Albanians, in addition to these, have been organized and registered during these years.

And that, in the United Kingdom only during the year 2022, 40 thousand Albanians emigrated from Albania. All these exceed over 1 million Albanians. More than 35% of Albanians have emigrated from 2014 to 2022./ CNA