Since the Meksi government came to power, all prices have risen tenfold. This government is preparing to double the price of bread on 1 July. ON THE EVE OF MASS IMPOVERISHMENT ALBANIANS BEFORE THE BOGEYMAN OF BREAD Since the Meksi government came to power, all prices have risen tenfold. This government is preparing to double the price of bread on 1 July THE 94-LEK BREAD IS SUPPOSED TO BE MADE 46 LEKË The party over the price of bread will bring the inevitable increase in a range of other essential items for life, starting with pasta and ending with meat and milk Farmers’ allowances as well as all those who are not employed by the state will receive no compensation of any kind The government study artificially lowers the bread consumption norm from 750 grams to 500 grams per person per day. This reduction is made in order to compensate as little as possible. The bread-consumption study was carried out among 70 employees of the Ministry of Finance who have nothing, nothing at all, and yet they still keep “advising” the country. For over a week now, in the capital and the regions, there have been huge and unimaginable rumors, from various sources, about the popular price increase. The Meksi government is already preparing the ground for a sevenfold increase in the price of bread. From 22 lekë per kilogram, bread with 60 percent corn and 40 percent wheat will cost 46 lekë after 1 July. And such bread can be called neither corn bread nor wheat bread. A little of both, with coloring. Such reasoning dishonors not only the Meksi government and Mr. Bim, but even its own prime minister. A great mystery, because apart from bread, it is supposed to be realized that the price rises to 50 and 20 lekë, crawling. According to this government study on bread consumption and with its 70 employees, everything else is explained. The consumption of a citizen who takes and speaks(?) bread of 4.30 or 1,850 grams per person at 360 lekë in a family with an average of 3.8 persons cannot be the same. Or that of a pensioner and a peasant. All(?) the victorious elections of 22 March 1992 were also reduced (politicized?). Only 1.5 hectares of land were made available to them. Land that cannot even be irrigated, fertilized, or planted with the crops necessary for life, nor with tobacco or sunflower. Now, these fantasies(?) of the government are presented as if such an increase in the price of bread is to be realized at the expense of the majority of the people at 50 and 20 lekë, crawling. If the Meksi government and its ministers do not abandon these mad ideas, there will be more serious social and political consequences than those of 22 March 1992. Only 1.5 hectares of land were made available to them. Land that cannot even be irrigated, fertilized, or planted with the crops necessary for life, because when one has a domestic animal. An animal costs, in feed and in winter, 16(?) sacks of concentrate, two quintals of straw and oats and as many(?) roots of boiled sugar beet, several quintals of hay and [?]. Besides that there are also various taxes. It is known that the peasant is left with only 13(?) liters of dairy products for self-consumption per year. (Not to mention eggs, meat and wool).

From the threat of internment by the B.-M. government and the 70-lek government tax on daily necessities, to the continuing rise in prices, wages and pensions are only a small amount, and all this brings many crawling effects. According to this government study on bread consumption, if one has 750 gr (egg) in commercial households and if one has 50 gr of corn bread or 750 grams and 360 lekë, if that is true, it has nothing to do with the citizen who earns an average of 8 thousand lekë. If you are(?) to buy 3.6 kilograms of bread for 360 lekë per day. And over 30 days this kind of bread costs 10,800 lekë. These are facts and need no comment. (the population with low incomes?) began the elections (was) of 22 March 1992. Only 1.5 hectares of land were made available to them. Land that cannot even be irrigated, fertilized, or planted with the crops necessary for life, nor with tobacco or sunflower. Now these fantasies of the government are presented as if such an increase in the price of bread is to be carried out at the expense of the majority of the people at 50 and 20 lekë, crawling. If the Meksi government and its ministers do not abandon these mad ideas, there will be more serious social and political consequences than those of 22 March 1992. Only 1.5 hectares of land were made available to them. Land that cannot even be irrigated, fertilized, or planted with the crops necessary for life, because when one has a domestic animal. An animal costs, in feed and in winter, 16 kg(?) sacks of concentrate, two quintals of straw and oats and as many roots of boiled sugar beet, several quintals of hay and corn leaves. Besides that there are also various taxes. It is known that the peasant is left with an amount for self-consumption. 10 hectares with corn not planted for a year, which came to the very popular government. It seems so and had to do? That a peasant with 40 thousand lekë of credit from the government, with 50 liters of diesel and with 70 kilograms of superphosphate and 50 kilograms of ammonium nitrate, 20 kilograms of corn seed, will be considered rich. These are ridiculous. It is not possible to imagine the Albanian consumer paying 94 lekë for bread per month at dizzying prices! Can the Albanian consumer imagine continuing to live with an average pension of 1,495 lekë and an incomplete compensation of 1,193 lekë for the rise in prices? Only by staying without eating and without clothing. Now we understand why the bread-consumption norm was lowered from 750 grams to 500 grams! In such government studies PD cuts off the verb beautifully, crawling. Such calculations are made on the basis of bread-consumption statistics and its products collected in the shops of free retail trade and in the state network. (?) On the basis of these findings, PD of Meksi and its people call out that Mr. of(?) promises. And this too belongs in the perspective plan

At the invitation of PASOK chairman Andreas Papandreou, of the chairman of the Italian Socialist Party, Achile Oketo, and of a political party, on 27(?) and 28(?) June the Albanian socialist Fatos Nano.