The reformation of the Government by Prime Minister Edi Rama , separating the economy from the Ministry of Finance, followed a process that would basically have to be technical to separate the areas of action and subject matter of the new ministry that was created.
Among the ambiguities arising from the separation of economy and finance was the privatization, or the private use of state-owned enterprises and properties.
The law was approved in 2008, at that time through a normative act by the Government of Sali Berisha and opposed by the socialists, at that time in the opposition.
The initial idea of ??the socialists was to determine whether the Ministry of Finance or the new Ministry of Economy should be responsible for the law in question, and thus the first draft was proposed to the relevant commissions.
The committee responsible for examining the proposal was the Committee for the Economy. The proposal was simple and had only two articles.
In the first article, it was proposed that the privatization and provision for use of state-owned enterprises should be transferred to the ministry responsible for the economy. The second article was the entry into force of these changes.
But what happened?
During a session in the Economy Committee, Socialist MP Blerina Gjylameti filed two amendments to the draft. The first one was related to the article that determined the transfer of state property to the private sector through the sale or use. In this article, Gjylameti also proposed the possibility of exchange or donation.
"The criteria for the evaluation of properties that are privatized or exchanged, as well as the procedures and forms of privatization, the ways of exchanging state property, as well as exceptional cases are determined by the decision of the Council of Ministers", the proposal further states.
According to these changes, a strategic investor, for example, who has failed to invest in a state-owned property in Theth, may request that the state offer another state-owned property in Vlora, or in other more coveted areas, through exchange.
One of these properties could be that of the Institute of Albanianology, located in Mother Teresa Square, between this square and the 'Air Albania' stadium.
This was announced by the official Democratic Party. Lulzim Basha said that the changes in the law show that the interests of persons declared non grata for reasons of organized crime and influencing and corrupting elections have set their eyes on the Albanological Institute of Tirana.
The properties of the Institute of Albanology are one of the thousands of state properties that are subject to this law.
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