Treasury bonds deadline postponed
12/12/2011 00:00
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The Parliamentary Commission of economy postponed the deadline with two
years, so that the citizens can use the privatization bonds in the
legalization process and the sale of public assets. The Ministry of
Finances says that this legal amend is very necessary.
“A series of laws that foresee their usage as a payment instrument in privatization and other processes, are still in act and have provoked longer deadlines”, declared Linda Rusmali, representative of the Ministry of Finances.
But the opposition thinks that privatization bonds are a failed experiment of the government, because the citizens have not had any benefit from them.
“The treasury bonds in the hands of common people lose their value each day, and people find no way of using these bonds. All governments have helped for postponing the deadline of these bonds. This makes me think that this process will be dragged upon without any result”, declared the Socialist MP, Mimi Kodheli.
The Democratic MP, Edomond Spaho, declared that the Socialists were the ones who put bonds out of circulation, while the right wing government returned them to the citizens’ service.
“We treated this topic last year, and also gave a number of the privatization bonds that were used in the legalization process. It is a very considerable amount”, Spaho declared.
According to the government data, the citizens have used around 11 billion ALL of treasury bonds in the privatization process, while another and much bigger quantity remains unused. Besides the draft for the bonds, the commission approved another legal amend, that reduces the customs fee for onions from 15 to 2%.
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