TIRANA, April 20 /ATA/ Chairman of the Democratic Party in opposition Lulzim Basha held today a meeting with the municipal councilors of the Democratic Party.
According to Basha, “The World Bank has also noticed the total failure of the Territorial Reform. It has been a total failure with decentralization which, instead of bringing more powers to the municipalities in function of the citizens, has made them less transparent”.
He said that the municipality of Tirana has increased taxes on the citizens.
“The local government takes the taxes from the citizens and instead of returning them to the citizens, they make hotels with the money or deposit them in bank accounts. So, a pure mafia scheme,” he said.
The head of the DP asked the councilors to denounce corruption with the taxes of Albanians in the municipalities of the country.
“We courageously denounce everything that happens in the country’s municipalities in violation of the law. Everything related to the massive corruption, the taxes of the Albanians, the seizure of public and private property, the close cooperation with organized crime, the abuse of land, forests, pastures and of course, the total lack of services and investments in infrastructure”, said Basha.
Further on, Basha said that DP has two stages to pass ahead, the political program for the coming Parliamentary elections and the concept for local government./p.s./
