Rama: New territorial division
17/10/2013 00:00
Advanced cocaine laboratory is discovered in north of Tirana, 7 Albanians and 3 foreigners arrested 16/11 15:43
The territorial administrative reform has been considered by the
Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, as a very important challenge for
the development of our country.
During a press conference organized by the government with the support of the OSCE, the head of the executive considered the current administrative division a demographic mess inherited by the dictatorial past.
“Dialogue with all actors. It is a process of the territorial administrative reform that is necessary, and we will do everything possible for it to be all-inclusive and with the only goal of making a simpler territorial division, of reinforcing the economic, social and cultural spaces of the local units, so that the entire country can be reinforced and certainly that this is the essence of this reform”, Rama declared.
The Prime Minister illustrated with numbers the cost that the Albanian tax payers pay for the public administration.
“It is unacceptable in the conditions of Albania to have an economic crisis, especially with the Albania that we have today. It is unacceptable that the communes cost to the tax-payers around 25 million USD each year, and that there are 80 communes with less than 5000 residents. Theer are 71 communes that have zero revenues, and that are there only thanks to the wages given by the state budget”, Rama declared.
Rama declared that a new administrative division of our country will serve to the reinforcing of economy, with direct influence to the citizens.
The OSCE ambassador, Florian Raunig, declared that the territorial administrative division of Albania has very small local governing units, with very limited resource and that in many cases has make it very difficult for the local administration to offer qualitative services to its citizens.
Ettore Sequi, head of the European Union mission in Tirana, declared that the essence of this reform will be the final product that should be owned by those who will really implement it. The consultation and cooperation between the local government units is essential in this reform”, Sequi underlined.
According to Blendi Cuci, Minister of State for the Local Matters, the new administrative division of the country through this reform might end before the local elections of 2015.
Top Channel
