“The same like in Italy and France when municipalities go into collapse and the financial situation goes into depression and we can no longer pretend not to see it,” said Rama, at the conference on decentralization and financial performance of local government.

Rama expressed the belief that the potential for profitable financial economic activity by the municipalities is all there and it is unjustifiable failure to use this potential.

“We must definitely open this chapter. Municipalities need to organize their profitable economic activity. It is entirely possible. It only wants vision, will and expertise. For this reason, here in this meeting we also have representatives of the World Bank “, said Rama.

Also, the prime minister said that, “The same we did with the cleaning, we will do with the budget discipline”.

Rama said that what is required is discipline.

“You accumulate debts and wait for the government. You accumulate the problems and wait for the government to solve them. Restrict all projects to budget-funded projects and do not stray from this vicious circle of problem-solving. Today, your cities are cleaner than they were before we took action to condition the passage of the budget with a reasonable funding and based on some cleaning criteria. It shows that things are done,” he said.

Rama concluded by saying that currently 45 municipalities do not have financial problems./p.s./