Prime Minister Edi Rama has once again warned of the imposition of an "extraordinary" tax for electricity producers.
Speaking from Përmeti during a meeting with citizens, Rama did not reveal the details of this tax, but added that the income that will be benefited from it will go in the form of aid for pensioners and families in need.
Prime Minister Rama said, among other things, that the government will continue with the increase of the minimum wage, but did not give any deadline for when it can be realized.
"We have entered another level of the regional context because with the re-adaptation of the Vlora TPP, the involvement of the American company with the investment to connect the pipeline with that of TAP, we will receive another power in the coming years. This part of the energy electricity looks like chatter out of curiosity because when it doesn't exist as a fact in the bill, they say it's nothing. But it's a very big expense. We're discussing the imposition of an extraordinary tax on energy producers.
Following the European directive, we will impose an extraordinary tax. Not to take a significant amount of funds in state revenue and use it for anything other than giving it back to the people in the form of financial support starting with pensioners and needy families. In this big confrontation, in this kind of monster, we want to be in solidarity until the end.
All that volume of revenue from the extraordinary tax will be returned to social support and the resistance of this people to the inflation of the war. On the other hand, we will do our best to continue the salary increase in a stable manner. We will continue to stimulate as much as possible not only the people who work in the public sector, but also the private sector. We will increase the minimum wage again so that the private sector will join in." - said Rama.