Veliaj: Statement for newcomers to Tirana, racist

23:17 04/11/2022

“The Great Ring will be made. At the time of PD and LSI there was no compensation”

During a meeting in unit number three, the mayor Erion Veliaj described as racist the statements issued by representatives of the opposition about the arrivals in Tirana.

“In Tirana, which started with 10 thousand people and which today has 1 million and 10 thousand people, 90% of the people came from somewhere else, like my family came 52 years ago, when my parents were students. This is not the moment, this is not the time, to say to foreign people ‘when did you become’, ‘whose are you’ and ‘whose am I’! I say to all the candidates before us: May God give you life and health, you and your families, but this is a racist debate, which we should no longer do in 2022, when Tirana is the European Youth Capital, because it is the city of everyone.

In the presentation of the next year’s budget for this unit, Veliaj also focused on the projects that will be realized, one of which is the construction of the Great Ring.

“The Great Ring will be made! Tirana needs the Great Ring. The Great Ring adds value to the property. The trail of the Great Ring exists since the time of Adil Çarçani. I remember how the compensation was done during the PD and LSI. When the work started for a few segments in the Headquarters, the farmhand would come and take the people forward. Not even a penny of compensation! Not even a rental bonus! Not even a house for every square meter. I challenge you today! Go ask Mother Lisa, icon of the Democratic Party! OFL’s own teams, with 20 “Range Rovers”, organized the whole world there! Mother Liza signed 500 square meters for the house designed by Stefano Boeri at “5 Maji” when she realized that she can’t stop the progress and from a 4-foot stilt house, she is getting 500 square meters, urbanized, with a mortgage.

Earlier in Unit 3, Veliaj met a group of young people and participated in the distribution of certificates of appreciation to her personalities.

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