TIRANA, April 13 /ATA/ –By I. Vata/ – The Chairman of the Freedom Party Ilir Meta said in a press statement on Thursday that the findings of a newly released public opinion poll in Albania by the International Republican Institute’s (IRI) revealed that Albanian citizens deem corruption as a major concern.
Meta stated that the candidates of the opposition’s Together We Win coalition “will offer a program devised to ease living costs in our country.”
“The International Republican Institute has just released the findings of a survey, suggesting that an overwhelming majority of the Albanian citizens identify high prices, the increasing cost of living and corruption as serious problems in Albania. They say that Albanian democracy has not progressed properly and that migration has increased in recent years. 87% of the respondents said that corruption is a serious problem in Albania. Overwhelming majority of the respondents, 79% of adults said that high prices and the cost of living are the country’s top issue. A majority of the respondents also acknowledge that their economic status is unchanged or has worsened. The poll showed that 53% of Albanians believe their municipal leaders are doing little or nothing to address the needs of the people. Around 3/4 of the current mayors representing the ruling majority will run again in the May 14 elections,” Meta said.
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