TIRANA, July 30/ATA/ The MPs of the Parliamentary group of the ruling majority, members of the Special Parliamentary Commission for the Administrative-Territorial Reform, have today forwarded to the mayors of municipalities and municipal councils the proposal for the Administrative-Territorial Reform 2.0.
This means a proposed second wave of local government restructuring aimed at reducing and merging municipalities, adjusting local financing and responding to demographic shifts.
Thus, the proposal carries downsize of the total number of municipalities from 61 to 46 by consolidating 28 existing local units into 13 new ones ahead of the 2027 local elections.
Under the new structure, there will be 46 municipalities (with 20 containing more than one city), 71 constituent cities, and 387 municipal units.
The SP emphasized that this is not the end of the process. It is the moment when the proposal is sent to where it should be discussed: in the municipalities and among the citizens.
According to the SP, the proposal that the ruling majority presented today remains a strong basis on which political agreement can be built.
The majority MPs once again invited the opposition to review this package with state responsibility and, in the fall, to support this reform together with the majority, not for one party or the other, but for Albania and for the generations that will live in its cities. /m.q/a.f/p.s./
