The ugly charities of politicians Sinai (left) and Berisha (right)!

2024-09-20 15:43:13 / IDE NGA GJERGJ EREBARA

Repeatedly, the socialist deputy pointed out to us these days that he has such a big heart that he gives his salary as a deputy to charity. Sinai found using the argument of charity to invalidate the fact that various state institutions have made purchases from the network of companies under his ownership, which constitutes a violation of the Constitution, regardless of whether the purchases are large or small or whether Sinai himself was or was unaware of these transactions. But while the issue of violation of the Constitution is another issue, Sinai's claim for charity with the deputy's salary is, I think, far more disturbing than the money earned in violation of the Constitution.

In fact, Sinai is not the first to slap charity in the face. A little earlier, former Prime Minister shouted loudly and complained in surprise how the Special Prosecutor's Office's investigation into suspicions of corruption against him included, as data showing his own benefits, donations that his daughter and the family of the former prime minister's daughter have made a foundation run by his wife, a foundation whose purpose of existence is to help children with different abilities.

I myself remember the establishment of the said foundation as well as several disgusting auctions in which businessmen, some corrupt and some not, offered and bought at salty prices various paintings, with the aim that the proceeds would go to the aid of the foundation. It was a banal show, apparently to wash away corruption with charity under the power of a prime minister who, because he was prime minister and had a budget of several billion euros at his disposal, could and should, with taxpayers' money, build whatever agencies needed to help children, adults, the elderly, people and animals, institutions for the protection of the environment or for the development of art or science, without the need to ask for a donation from the daughter or the son-in-law.

However, Berisha's work is something that is not worth taking too long. He is already accused and as a defendant, he has every right to defend himself as he sees fit.

It's actually this Sinai thing that bothers you the most. A businessman MP of a party that presents itself as a leftist, assigned by this party to gather votes in one of the poorest areas of Albania, Sinaj is actually a non-politician who is not remembered to have spoken about anything political, has taken any position on various problems that normally concern politically engaged people or has initiated any reform, any change for the better in the society in which we live. His Facebook page is that of a robot that reshares various posts of the prime minister and ministers, while Sinai himself does not seem to have ever talked about anything that politicians usually talk about until they become stale. The only thing I remember this non-politician saying is that he gives his salary to charity.

I do not doubt that the salary can be given to charity. As long as it's his money, he has every right to do whatever he wants with it. It's just that this is not what the MP's function is. The deputy, as a representative of the people, mandated to represent it, and with the salary he receives from this very people, instead of dealing with this work, i.e. the representation of the interests and concerns or opinions of the people he represents, claims that it is charitable precisely in relation to the people it represents. It's the same as if an employee, on the day he gets his salary, goes to his employer and says: keep this salary because you're in trouble, you're in trouble and you need some money. You have a sick family member and you have to go all the way to Tirana for a couple of tests, because there is no health care here in the village. Either your cow died, or hail damaged your crops.

Because instead of doing charity, Sinai should act as the representative of the people, he should shout in the parliament why there is poverty in Albania, why, in the area where he mobilizes votes for the party, there are people in trouble and in need, why these people have to wait for his salary and do not receive economic assistance or why the economic assistance is insufficient.

Because it has happened that we live in a time when the world has the means at its disposal so that there are no people in need in any country or village, however remote, and the main tool with which the world fights these problems is the welfare state, in which , both the poor and those who cannot, should be treated with dignity, not with the MP's salary, which, despite the size of the heart, is never enough to solve the problem of poverty, but through taxation and redistribution, as written in the preamble of the Constitution that Sinai obviously does not know that he has violated.

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