“Erion, how will you vote on the agricultural land law?” / Muçi clashes with Braçe, Socialist MP: Even if you live 100 years, you still won’t be able to speak…

Another debate took place in Parliament between Movement Together MP Redi Muçi and Socialist MP Erion Braçe during discussions on the agricultural land law. Muçi raised accusations regarding problems in agriculture and government policies, while Braçe responded by defending his positions and the work done for the sector.

“I want to speak about a law on which I agree with Erion, one that I will also vote against. Erion mentioned that the construction sector has experienced growth, while agriculture has declined. I am showing the same thing through the chart. A sector that is used for money laundering from drug trafficking cannot be considered a productive sector.

I have never heard you address this issue. This affects the fall of the euro, and that has a heavy impact on farmers. How is it possible that tourism is growing in this country while agriculture is declining? What do these additional people who come here eat? Why don’t they eat tomatoes and cucumbers produced in our country, but instead consume those from North Macedonia?

The law we are reviewing concerns additions and amendments related to agricultural land. With these changes, not only will it fail to protect agricultural land, but it will lead to its seizure. Those farmers who have paid land taxes for 35 years will one day have their land taken away. This is the law that caused a conflict between Damian and Ulsi. If you ask farmers, they will tell you that their lands have been taken away.”

“Agriculture has many, many problems, which I have never heard the agriculture expert Erion talk about in this hall — the rotting of products, the death of livestock. Erion, you who are the real opposition in this chamber, how will you vote when the law comes to Parliament that would open the way for foreign buyers to purchase agricultural land that Albanians have not been able to benefit from for 35 years? Albanians are also those who have obtained passports through trafficking abroad — so will you vote to sell agricultural land to foreigners? How will you vote? Will you have the courage to stand against this tall man? Tell us that first, and then give us your opinions,” Muçi said.

In his response, Braçe said that Muçi could never speak about agriculture and land issues in the country to the extent that the Socialist MP has done.

“I cannot stand here and say that through trafficking people obtain American, German, or French passports. I know a little; I don’t know as much as you do. As far as I know, engaging in drug trafficking is not rewarded with passports from those countries. Redi, this is the problem with you and your party.”

“The things you have in your head, you remember as if they are true. Put your mind to work and stop producing nonsense. You would have to be elected as an MP for 100 years in a row to talk about agriculture as much as I have. Neither your lifetime nor your money, nor your lands, and not even Greece would be enough to help you speak as much as I have,” Braçe said.

“When eggs, tomatoes, and cucumbers — which are food and products of those men and women who have worked on those lands you have never visited — are involved, you cannot go from morning to night saying that cucumbers contain pesticides and eggs come from sick chickens. Nobody buys that. The euro affects farmers, but it should have an impact by lowering prices, not increasing them.

Farmers do not export. You are an engineer; until today, you have had no connection with agriculture or the economy. I have carried all of this decline through exporters. You do not understand this because you do not go shopping at the market,” Braçe stated.

“KORÇA BOOM”