The Chairman of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, responded to the statement of Prime Minister Edi Rama, who said that "this week we have also approved the promised regulatory act for the reduction of the oil excise tax." In a statement, Berisha expressed that Albania has the highest tax in the world and according to him, the reduction of the excise tax is a mockery for citizens and farmers.
"First, dear citizens, I wish you once again from the heart a happy Easter, let's celebrate the next Easter better. Second, I am before you today because he did not hesitate even on Easter day to deliver his monologue of deception. Edi Rama today tried again to deceive Albanians regarding the stratospheric price of oil.
The truth, and once you know it dear citizens, is that this government has imposed on oil the absolutely highest tax in the world. This government taxes like no other government on the planet, 60% of the price at which oil is sold in the market and takes 1.1 euros per liter of oil. The move it claims with the excise tax is a mockery. According to him, it comes into effect when oil exceeds 220 lek per liter, while halving the fiscal burden, the taxes on oil, would be the only way to reduce its price and keep it at levels affordable for Albanian citizens, for Albanian farmers, to keep it at controllable levels for other prices as well," Berisha stated.