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“With this intervention we are trying to be correct with our obligations”, declared Nezir Hajdedaj, deputy Minister of Finances.

The Normative Act was voted at the Parliamentary Commission of Economy. The opposition that voted against considered it a financial repression against the local administration that affects the private operators who have contracts with the municipalities and communes.

“We are not interfering with the revenues of the local administration, because the budget of a municipality has its own revenues and unchanged transfers, and no one comes here to give a technical solution to this, but they keep making politics. What are you looking for, to cut the water supply to the city? This is not alright”, declared the Democratic Party MP, Igli Cara.

“We must offer a solution, which is a rescheduling of debts. This must be realized by the company in cooperation with the local administration. The blockage brings additional costs and it makes us help one company temporary and damage 1000 thousand other companies. I believe that this doesn’t help”, declared the Socialist MP, Arben Malaj.

Besides obliging the municipalities and communes pay CEZ, the government also gives 7 billion ALL of guarantee for the Albanian Power Corporation (KESH), so that it can compensate the unrealized import of CEZ.

“You give a state guarantee and it becomes a direct cost for the tax payer, the citizens”, declared the Socialist MP, Arben Ahmetaj.

The energy sector has plunged in a difficult debt chain with KESH, the private CEZ and other state owned institutions.

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