Veliaj, the serial cheater

2024-09-08 15:14:00, Politikë CNA

Photomontage - Erion Veliaj

Mayor Erion Veliaj, this Sunday, made a status on social networks, where he says that Tirana is listed in the top 10 of European capitals with the largest urban coverage with trees.

Veliaj has boasted that Tirana has more trees than Athens, Belgrade and Brussels.

"Great news for Tirana from the European Environment Agency!

Take a look at this chart to learn how Tirana is listed in the top 10 of European capitals with the largest urban tree coverage, leaving behind Athens, Belgrade, Brussels and many other cities. An extraordinary achievement for all the work done in these years, with the planting of new trees, as the only way to improve the lives of children and everyone.

It is also an answer to the rants of those who, wonder how they never get tired of burning tires polluting the environment in the center of Tirana, but thank God they grab a shovel by hand!", he wrote.

Table published by Erion Veliaj

But this turns out to be a fraud, as the World Bank has refuted this thesis before.

Veliaj's claims are refuted by the World Bank's report in April of this year, which refers to the data of Dynamic World, a partnership between Google and the World Resources Institute, which measures in real time with maximum resolution the change of green surfaces in 5 thousand cities of the world. (Click for measurements ).

In this report, the World Bank said that Tirana has seen a reduction in green surfaces.

"Major cities in the region, such as Belgrade, Skopje, Sarajevo and Prishtina witnessed an increase in green area between 2015 and 2020, while Tirana, Tetova and Prizren experienced declines in green cover," the report says.

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Thus, Veliaj's theses about the greenery of Tirana and the orbital forest are not valid and are nothing but frauds.

And in fact, this is not the only case that Veliaj deceives citizens. His scams start from the incinerator of Tirana that does not exist and is paid for around 30 thousand euros per year by poor Albanian taxpayers, and continues with the fact that garbage has covered Tirana, but that the mayor declares that it is the cleanest capital.

These are just some of Veliaj's lies, which CNA has denounced time and time again and will continue to denounce them until Veliaj bears responsibility for his actions as the chairman of the thieving directors of the Municipality of Tirana./ CNA