Here's how the salary increase for administration employees will be done and the 2 steps that will be followed to make this promise a reality, the details are clarified

The salary increase plan will be divided into 2 phases. Prime Minister Edi Rama promised that an increase will be made now, while the second part will be foreseen in next year's budget. During a short meeting with the employees of the administration of the Prime Minister's Office, the head of this institution emphasized yesterday that they have encountered many obstacles, but finally the opportunity has been created for everyone to have better salaries. "The opportunity to make it possible has only now been created. You know very well how many difficulties we had to overcome and to tell you that it is time to make very significant salary increases. The salary increase will be done in 2 steps over the course of 1 year. An increase now and an increase in next year's budget", he declared.

Salary change for some employees

Further, Prime Minister Edi Rama shared the salary change for some employees according to the plan made by the government for the average salaries of the administration. "Monika, who has been the director of the unit for 26 years, then Rezari, who is a lawyer in the department and who has been here for 37 years, then Vjollca, the department manager. Vijollca is a step up from Vijollca for 43 years. Then Zenajda, who is responsible for the sector. Zenajda is 28 years old, then Luljeta, who is a specialist. Luljeta has all the secrets of the government because Luljeta has been here for 41 years, but you haven't seen anything yet because it is also Nexhmija who is 44 years old. Luljeta's salary will be 135 thousand allek and Nexhmija's salary will be 125 thousand allek. Then Zenajda, who is responsible for the sector, will receive a salary of 158,000 ALL. Then Vjollca, who is again responsible for the sector, will have 149 thousand ALL. Then Rezari 218 thousand ALL. And then Monika 249 thousand ALL. Don't take these 49, 48, 19 completely for granted that they can move little by little, but if they moved, they will move for more, not for less because the calculations are being made, but this is the salary increase, which will naturally include the entire administration", said Rama.

Prime Minister's message to the youth

In conclusion, Prime Minister Edi Rama gave a message that young people should work hard to reach these salary figures as it is not impossible. There were also jokes about running to work. "Keep in mind that for the ladies here it took a long time to reach a decent salary, for the younger ones you were working as much as half of them you will get more than it is known that at the end of the day we are working for you young people. That was our break for today, now I run to work. I said running, not walking," Prime Minister Edi Rama underlined.

What happened?

But there have been many reactions to Prime Minister Edi Rama's promises to raise wages, especially from the opposition, which accuses the chief executive of violating the Election Code. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Rama has chosen to answer the accusations against him, which he describes as political illiteracy. "Political illiteracy is worse than real or functional illiteracy! The article that prohibits salary increases 4 months before the elections is related to the political elections, which talks about the period before the creation of the new government. The reading is done aloud by the pensioners on May 14," Rama wrote two days ago on social networks. We remind you that after the end of the government meeting, Prime Minister Edi Rama declared two days ago that he has an ambitious plan for salary increases, in the span of these two years, 2023-2024. which brings Albania to the high level of the region. Rama said that after increasing the minimum wage, we can now go towards increasing the average wage in two stages. Meanwhile, the government has made the decision to reward pensioners with a monetary value of 5,000 lek from the income of the extraordinary tax of energy producers. Asked if he is in violation of the Electoral Code for the remuneration of pensioners as we are about 45 days away from the May 14 elections, Rama said that they made the promise months ago.