Tirana Times
POGRADEC, April 21 – What strange promises come out from the mouth of the candidates for the May 8 local elections!
They could surprise everyone, including Albanians who are kind of used to these ‘fantastic’ pledges of their political leaders.
The local media reports how candidates at the Cervenake commune in eastern Pogradec district are trying to attract voters with a promise they will give them a piece of land which could be used for the coffins of their family members, if they have one.
People might say that a bazaar with the dead is a big sin, but not for the votes, it seems.
This commune with some 1,000 inhabitants finds difficulties of finding a cemetery place for the death of their beloved ones, according to Gazeta Shqiptare daily newspaper. That seems to be a very good attractive tool for the candidates offering some 50 square meters of land to each family voting for them.
These elections are not different from the previous ones, full of pledges from the politicians who then forget them.
Listening to them makes everyone happy and that seems to be the joy of the moment.
Listen to the two main rivals _ Edi Rama of the opposition Socialists and Lulzim Basha of the governing Democrats running for the top post, that of Tirana city hall.
Rama pledges a big park north of the capital that could cost up to 700 million euro. Basha pledges investment up to one billion euro over the next four years. They pledge ending the problems of unemployment, improving the quality of the people’s life, cutting down goods prices, taxes, building new schools, roads, shelter for the homeless and so on and so forth.
Good for them but will they be done, at least a small part of them?!
