The start of the campaign was the clearest evidence of a powerful contrast
The President of the Liberty Party, Ilir Metaj, who competes for MP in the open list, tells Panorama newspaper how he is conducting the election campaign despite the isolation in the cell. « I am very pleased with the engagement of many young people who have never benefited from the SMI and are at the forefront of our battle for victory and freedom! My campaign is going well. Every day I send 50-100 letters to friends everywhere.-says Meta.
Full interview
Mr. Meta, 26 days separate us from May 11. Do you trust in the opposition’s victory?
Clearly than everyone else is a minority, is Edi Rama himself the pledgee of the rule of law and the destroyer of the free elections repeatedly and proven worldwide. The very arrests and political persecutions of the opposition leadership, starting with Mr. Berisha’s unconstitutional arrest and my criminal abduction, which resembles that of Aldo Moros from terrorist brigades prove this. But his accounts have been broken and this is very clear by his instability not only political but also psychic. The start of the campaign was the clearest evidence of a strong contrast between the responsible opposition and with a program for every Albanian family and a degraded party like all its corrupt governance and administration.
However, he insists on a convincing victory.
But from 1 million votes went down to 800,000, and in the coming weeks, the drunkenness will come out of expensive wines and will decrease much more. From over 90 seats, it went down to 77, and when you get intoxicated from expensive wines it will come down much more. The victory is clearly in the hands of the opposition and she should not leave her for a moment because she is in the race with a captured state and not with the SP.
The opposition has the strongest point and should stay tightly to its program that helps every Albanian since the first 100 days of government. But this program must enter every Albanian family, and only the opposition candidates and its activists across the country have this. The opposition guarantees any Albanian who will receive 200 euros in the first 100 days of the new government, while Edi Ramamamames that in 2030, after the 2029 elections, it will aim for the minimum pension of 200 euros. Is there a bigger mockery for Albanian pensioners?
Edi Rama makes futuristic promises with EU membership, which only he has sabotaged in 12 years, but also when he was in opposition with the blocking of 3 laws for the Fier region will come billions of euros, but he has to account for why IPARD hundreds of IPARDs were stolen for agriculture and their money. But the opposition is not enough for the excellent and concrete program that reduces taxes restores economic freedom, but has to go to every business and explain how it will benefit.
But in the meantime, polls show that Edi Rama is on the advantage anyway.
It has also been proven publicly with Veliaj’s wiretaps on how the Renaissance controls the media from prison as well. I believe you are clear about how Edi Rama controls at the head of the government and we also have the Municipality of Tirana. I believe it is clear why the financing of the incinerator of Tirana who does not exist is not interrupted, because they foresee, as Ahmetaj told us to buy the media, shows, analysts and surveys, also to discourage the spirit of change and revolt.
So the power of the opposition is to the people and it has to go every day, every hour with them, there to the bakery, to the bar – the simplest restaurant, in the factories that are bankrupt and hundreds – thousands of pensioners who will be the first beneficiaries in the first 100 days of our program. 3.3 billion euros a year are stolen by Edi Rama without entering the state budget or 13.2 billion euros in 4 years.
14% is the difference between Albania’s income today compared to GDP compared to Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro. How is it explained that in the country where taxes have multiplied in 12 years like nowhere else in the region, income is the most scandalous? Because Edi Rama’s corruption is schizophrenic. So the pensioner in Ulcinj has a triple of the pensioner in Velipoja. Drastic tax cuts will rapidly formalize the economy, as it happened after 2005 with a flat tax.
How is the PL campaign and yours in particular?
The Freedom Party has been the main target of Edi Rama’s mafia regime for a long time. And Edi Rama was « comforted » taking the convert to Renaissance after leaving the doors of the SPAK and putting it on his list. It thus received the symbol of nepotism in the PL and responsible for many financial abuse of the party. He even « grabbed » us also the financier of the PL (SMI) for 20 years, hiring him in his business and who left without submission by law and ethics. This simply shows how heavy Ed Ramadhe is the ordinary level that has fallen to find salvation.
From April 27 last year PL is in a process of reconstruction on very sound principled and moral foundations. This battle will help us a lot in consolidating PL for the two decades to come. I am very pleased with the engagement of many young people who have never benefited from the SMI and are at the forefront of our battle for victory and freedom! My campaign walks very well. Every day I send 50-100 letters to friends to friends everywhere I get so many. I emphasize, now safe MPs and all candidates on the PL open lists, must be uninterrupted on the ground everywhere.
The true battle every minute on the ground will lead us to high participation, which Edi Rama rightly scares. 90% of TVs controlled by Edi Rama aim to perverse citizens and switch off the hope for change. So only the exit on the ground and the concrete clarification of the program leads us to victory safely.
Is there a risk of separating from the opposition, because you are now some new entities?
This risk exists if the opposition is not released all the time on the ground. No one has a better program for Albanian families and supporting domestic production than the united opposition. Edi Rama every election, finances and stimulates G.99 to make the opposition of the opposition. No vote should go damage and indirectly in Edi Rama’s interest. Moving the program to people will guarantee change and increase their participation in this existential moment not for democracy but for our nation.
What about strategist Lacivita what would you say?
I believe that his speeches have been the clearest and concrete. 12 years of crime, drugs and leaks are too much to continue. Likewise, the opposition program is to solve the problems of every Albanian family. At the same time that this program is like that of Reagami and Trump I would interpret: with few government (administration), with a lot of freedom (people). We have many governments with Edi Rama (administration which has doubled), much less freedom (people). The simpler we explain this program, and especially the drastic reduction of taxes and with it drastically reduced living costs for Albanian families, the higher the election participation and the more secure its victory!