DREAM / The Prime Minister resigns and wakes up under the Parisian bridge!

 Kliko këtu për të tjera
Voxpress:

Pact with SP, Reestablishment forgives the two concessions in health. Requires investigation only for sterilization and check up!

2024-03-20 15:44:50Fokus SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Pact with SP, Reestablishment forgives the two concessions in health. Requires
Edi Rama

The opposition's request for an investigative commission regarding the concessions of Prime Minister Edi Rama 's government in the health sector includes only two of four such, two of which are currently under investigation by SPAK, where one has the defendants in the process. The approved request is different from what the Reestablishment group made six months ago.

The campaign of the Reestablishment group in the opposition to investigate the suspected corrupt concessions of the current government in the health sector seems to have forgotten two of the four concessions of this sector, it is known from the request filed in the assembly by the main group of the parliamentary opposition and recently published on the website of the assembly.

The largest parliamentary group of the opposition, which is led by MP Gazmend Bardhi and is widely known as "Re-establishment", reached a political compromise with the majority of Prime Minister Edi Rama, in which their disruptive behavior in the parliamentary processes was stopped while the socialists accepted the establishment of two parliamentary commissions, which earlier they had denied to the opposition with dubious legal means and in violation of the opposition's constitutional rights.

While the agreement between the two main political groups in the country was hailed as a return to normality in the parliamentary processes in Albania, many observers raised the question of whether, in addition to known compromises, the agreement also carries hidden compromises.

In particular, questions were raised regarding the reason why the opposition has chosen two commissions of inquiry, out of the eight requested by it, which are matters mainly under investigation by SPAK and with not very strong political potential.

But the practical potential of the parliamentary commission for concessions in health is expected to be reduced even further, if it is seen that two out of four such have been left out of the scope of the investigation.

Prime Minister Edi Rama's government gave four concessions in the health sector at the beginning of its first and second term, which cost Albanian taxpayers over 50 million euros per year.

From the time of the procurement procedures, the media and the Albanians raised questions, both regarding the logic of granting these concessions, as well as the selected procedure or the profile of the winners.

The four concessions are: Basic control of the population, popularly known as Check Up, with a cost of over eight million euros per year; providing a set of surgical instruments, known mostly as "sterilization", which is currently costing about 17 million euros per year; The dialysis service concession in five hospitals, which is currently costing over 9 million euros per year, and; hospital laboratory services, which is costing over 18 million euros per year .

Meanwhile, the opposition parliamentary group's request for a parliamentary investigative commission reads: "Following the meeting of the Conference of Chairmen on 12.03.2024 and the tasks left at that meeting, please find attached the draft decisions agreed between the majority and the opposition, regarding:

The establishment of the Investigative Committee of the Assembly for the public service of Sterilization and the public service of Check-Up in health.
The Establishment of the Investigative Commission of the Assembly of Albania for the Handling of Data in the TIMS system."

As seen, the opposition's request does not include the investigation of the concession of the dialysis service, nor that of the laboratory services.

The two concessions involved are currently under investigation by SPAK. The first, that of sterilization, has so far led to the arrest and filing of charges against the former Deputy Minister of Health Klodian Rrjepaj and businessman Ilir Rrapaj. Both ended up in handcuffs for the criminal offenses of abuse of office and fraud, while the court also requested an investigation for the former Minister of Health, Ilir Beqja, and the former Minister of Finance, Shkëlqim Cani.

According to the prosecution, Rrjepaj manipulated the service costs while transferring the profits in the form of consultancy contracts to a company which was also under his ownership and which had only one large client, the concessionaire company. After the prosecutors did not initially find a criminal offense on the part of former minister Ilir Beqaj, the court ordered further investigations, which resulted in his summons as a defendant for the criminal offense of abuse of office. The results of the Check Up concession investigation are not yet known.

The opposition's request today to investigate only these two concessions out of four, is actually different from its previous request of September 2023. At that time, Re-establishment asked the assembly to set up a commission to investigate all four concessions, unlike the post-compromise requirement, which removes two of the four concessions from the scope of the inquiry.

The concessions of both governments, that of the Democratic Party, 2005-2013, but in particular, that of the Socialist Party after 2013 have raised questions about corruption and abuses, by Albanians or by international institutions. The International Monetary Fund has repeatedly raised questions regarding them as an "inefficient" use of public funds while warning of the risk to the financial stability of the country./ BIRN


Në përputhje me standarded JTI

Video

SHIKO KANALIN NE YOUTUBE
×