Shkullak: The territorial division was political, there are municipalities that cannot pay the fines

13:44 11/10/2022

Armand Shkullaku was today in the news edition of Klan News, where he stated that the territorial division was political, which consisted more in the power of the SP than in the interests of the citizens.

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“The goal of this reform was not what was claimed, i.e. bringing the service closer to the citizens, but it was simply a political division which concentrated as much as possible the power of the socialists, of the party in power at that time, in the main municipalities of the country. The fact itself has shown that throughout this period citizens’ complaints have been numerous, distances have been high, services are lacking, there are municipalities which have extremely small funds and are forced to cover extremely large territories, today we have many cities, municipalities of Albania are covered by garbage because they have no way to clean it.

We have municipalities, we heard the Prime Minister say that they will declare bankruptcy because these municipalities are unable to not only manage the taxes they have very little, but they are unable to pay the debts they have to the services they receive either from OSSHE, either from water pipes, etc. This is because this division was not well thought out, it is a division made quickly and stopping at the number of municipalities is not enough, this requires a complete study and if there really was a commitment and will to serve it as much as possible well people this work should have started on time.

It should have been a work of experts in advance, even international with their participation. They should do a complete study, see what the mistakes were and reflect them in the territorial reform. Separation should have been the last issue.” said Armand Shkullaku. /broread