The head of the Together Movement, Arlind Qori, has reacted regarding Elisa Spiropali's staff list, where she paid 17 people as advisors and experts, with salaries of over 33 million old lek per month, while most of them did not perform their real function.
In a video on social media, Qori reminds Spiropali of the draft law on the living wage, which 21,000 citizens had signed and the Parliament under her leadership did not consider at all, but instead turned it back.
He raises questions about how long Albanians will tolerate this situation, where these leeches and parasites, as he considers them, will trample on their dignity.
"Over 33 million lek has been spent on the state budget every month in the last 4 years on the salaries of 17 experts and advisors to the former Speaker of the Parliament, Elisa Spiropali. Among them, what can you not find, retired MEPs, former SP MPs, political scum, but also from these analysts who babble defending the government every evening in television studios.
Two and a half years ago, the Together Movement, with the signatures of 21 thousand citizens, submitted the draft law on the living wage to the Assembly, but the Albanian Parliament, headed by Elisa Spiropali, did not even devote 30 seconds to this draft law, sending it back to us as unreviewed by the old Albanian Parliament.
We made fun of Ms. Spiropali when she compared her boss Edi Rama to Skanderbeg, but it seems to me that in addition to laughing at her, we should also cry at our fate as citizens of a country where the minimum pension is around 90 thousand old lek and the average pension is around 180 thousand old lek.
So, these advisors and experts of Elisa Spiropali received salaries equal to 355 pensioners with minimum pension. Now the question I have for Albanian society is this. Seeing what is happening around the world, from Nepal to Europe, where peoples stand up to restore their dignity, to fight the corrupt and to demand social justice, we as Albanian society, how long will we tolerate these leeches and parasites that suck our blood everywhere in the state hierarchy? How long will we allow these people to trample on our dignity? What will be the day of the great turning point when we as Albanians will also restore our dignity?” – says Qori.
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