Prime Minister Rama: “Energy reform would have failed if we pardoned debts”

06/02/2017 00:00

The Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, said that the energy reform would
have failed if the government had pardoned the debt which was
accumulated through the years.

“The people who opposed the reform said we should have pardoned the debt that consumers owned. That would have made us fail with one of the most important state-forming project. Today we have 453.000 more consumers who are paying their debts, and the company is responding by making it easier for them to pay this burden from the past, which is a burden created by a government that had allowed the government to not work”, Rama said.

Rama said that you cannot build a social state by allowing people to not pay their obligations, so that they can give you votes.

“The people who are talking today about your problems, your sufferings, not only were there before us, but they also had the chance to prove it with actions how much they cared for you, and they didn’t do it”, Rama said.

Together with Minister Gjiknuri, the Prime Minister presented an initiative for home owners who have emigrated. They will be billed four times a year, not once a month.

Rama promised there would be a lower VAT for energy, but before they need to put the entire system under control.

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