Veliaj: “I will resign as Minister for electoral campaign”

The candidate of the majority for Mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj, declared in the national council of labor that next week he will resign as Minister of Social Welfare to start his official campaign for Mayor of Tirana, the capital of Albania. 

“Since the next meeting will have a new minister, I would want to fix the work at the National Council. This is what I will do next week, when I resign, to guarantee that the work we started will be finished and ready for the next colleague”, Veliaj declared.

Veliaj said that the Ministry he leads has realized essential reforms which have had a direct influence on the citizens’ lives.

“Despite our distinctions for defending the interests of businesses or syndicates,, we could build a new formula in this team, by producing products with only winners, with the win-win formula”, Veliaj declared.

Business and syndicalists have evaluated the cooperation with the Ministry of Social Welfare in some important sectors, such as employment and pension reform.

“Erjon included in this meeting the medhod of reporting and of having the institutions responsible for the problems posed by businesses. There is a new concept at the work offices. We had 40.000 new jobs last year”, declared the chairman of Business Albania, Luan Bregasi.