TIRANA, Dec 8 /ATA/ – The main opposition Democratic Party lawmaker Jorida Tabaku, also the chairwoman of the Parliamentary Committee on Integration, forwarded Thursday five amendments to the anti-corruption package.
In a press statement, the opposition lawmaker Tabaku claimed that “Albania has dropped 27 points in the corruption perception index of the Transparency Internal since 2016.”
“Albania is at the state capture level, with corruption now being committed by adopting legislation pieces. Some 12 laws are considered laws designed to capture the state, with ten of them approved in the last nine years. Corruption is endemic and widespread in every institution, the EU Progress Report, as well as the U.S. State Department note. The European Court of Audit report states that 1 in three tenders 3 or 30% are awarded without competition. The Supreme State Audit has publicly announced that the economic damage in the last 8 years is estimated 8 billion euros,” Tabaku stated.
She explained that the five draft laws and the relevant amendments include the Law on Public Procurements, Law on Concessions and Public Private Partnership contracts, Law on Territorial Planning and Regulation; Law on Strategic Investments and the law on Parliamentary Inquiry Committees.
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