According to Prime Minister Edi Rama’s report on party meetings with the “common people” held all over Tirana, unemployment is the most frequently mentioned complaint.
The Prime Minister claims to have organized since the elections 248 meetings in the 39 administrative units of the County of Tirana, including Kavaja, Kamza, Vora, and Rrogozhina. Around 27,000 citizens are reported of having attended the meetings headed by former Minister of Interior Affairs Saimir Tahiri and local deputies.
In his Facebook post, the Prime Minister claims that different from meetings in other parts of the country,
more than 50% of the citizens that took part in the meetings had a right-wing political affiliation, and they chose to share the problems of their area, trusting the PS team to solve their problems.
Prime Minister Rama provided no further proof to substantiate these claims. It is not known whether any citizens with LSI affiliation were allowed at the meetings.
Except unemployment, the following complaints headed the lists presented in the report, which offered, as per usual, no further elaboration on the methodology used or on how representative these data are for the entire population of Tirana:
- Absence of drinking water (UKT) – 234
- Absence of infrastructure – 215
- Problems with legalization – 180
- Food quality and safety – 140
- Problems with the OShEE – 120
- Problems with asset registration – 85
It thus appears that Prime Minister Rama’s decision to summarily fire all asset registration directions, with the argument that “the citizens complained about them” was taken hastily. In the most populous county in the country, it seems that the majority of the problems of the “common people” is caused by the policies of the municipality and its chief, Erion Veliaj, rather than by the central government.
