TIRANA, April 11/ATA/- “Corruption is a problem that is not created today, but now it is being tackled like never before”, said on Thursday at the Parliament Prime Minister Edi Rama.
« The fight against corruption implies in the first place the modernization of the state. It takes time and requires great patience, but even an extraordinary work. Investigation and daily punishments are not enough. The mechanisms that have the capacity to punish, but even prevent corruption need to be developed into a system”, said PM Rama.
According to him, « Corruption is fought today like never before ».
The prime minister provided some facts. “Thus, there have been 25 thousand complaints in the co-governance platform from October 2017 to October 2018”.
“There are 2 thousand matters raised by people and addressed by the government. At present, the citizens have a real opportunity to fight corruption”, said PM Rama.
Speaking about punishment of the administration officials, the prime minister said that during the period May-November 2018 there were taken 445 disciplinary decisions that vary from critical remarks to forwarding the matter to the Prosecution Office./j.p/p.s./
