TIRANA, Nov. 10 – Coming from two consecutive electoral losses, the opposition Democratic Party has turned its focus on the economy, promising lower taxes and an easing of government interference in business affairs, according to a new electoral economic program the party is set to introduce to voters countrywide.
Following the meeting Monday evening, Democratic Party leader Lulzim Basha said the party has started drafting the economic program “with the aim of taking the country out of economic depression, out of economic crisis” where he says it has plunged thanks to the left-wing coalition government.
The main focus of the program is lower taxes.
Basha said the Democrats are proposing a flat tax of 9 percent, even lower than the 10 percent they had during the eight years in power.
Basha offered some other details like the taxation for the small businesses, incentives for finances in general, on the agriculture products and other efforts.
These, Basha said “make possible a return of hope, optimism, inspiration and a new trust on doing ones job, on unhampered work, on freedom to work, to produce and take the country out of such a darkness of hope-killing and selective arbitrary action by the government.”
Basha has been traveling across the country meeting with voters and seeking their support, although the regularly-scheduled elections are two years away. He has also called for a democratic revolution and civil disobedience in areas were he says the government is being arbitrary and punitive.
