“A public thievery that needs to end”, the Albanian Prime Minister, Edi
Rama, stated about the electricity situation in the first meeting of the
Task Force, which aims to end this position in which 88% of the
business contracts and 91% of the individual family contracts owe
payments to the distribution company, now administered by the state.
“The practice that who doesn’t pay can steal even more must end. We will start with two levels in parallel: the level of relations between the public institutions with the distribution system, and the relation of the business with the distribution system. It would be a great injustice to start with families that are having economic difficulties”, Rama declared.
This task force that is led by the Deputy Prime Minister, Niko Peleshi, was considered by Prime Minister Rama as the foundation of a responsibility wall, in close cooperation with the Prosecution General and the judiciary.
This was the appeal made by Mr.Rama for the citizens: “Everyone must pay for the energy they consume, and those who pay should not be overcharged, so that those who don’t pay can do all they want. This is the challenge, and we should win it in a strong alliance with the interested citizens, so that we can have cheaper energy prices. And it can be cheaper if everyone pays for what they use, and not for what they don’t use”, Rama declared.
Damian Gjiknuri, Minister of Energy and Industry, declared that it would be a failure for our economy if this goal is not reached, because losses so far mount up to 140 million EUR.
Gjiknuri raised the concern of businesses that pay energy as if they were individual families, while the only ones reported at the Prosecution are the poor people in deep villages, and there is no report made against these businesses.
“Losses in 2013 reached 45%. 30% of the energy in Albania is stolen”, Peleshi declared.
“The low level of revenues for the part of energy that is stolen is another important element of the work that we have ahead”, Peleshi declared, who together with Prosecutor General Llalla signed one of the three cooperation memorandums. The two others gathered the signatures of Tahiri, Naco and Gjiknuri.
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