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The prime minister replaced the arrogance with which he usually responds to journalists with the care to choose his words, as soon as they asked him for an explanation for one of his firms in relation to the Tirana incinerator. It is about the decision no. 855 of the Council of Ministers, dated December 7, 2016, when the government gave bonuses to Klodian Zoto and Mirel Mërtir, the two accused of one of the biggest thefts of the Albanian transition; the one with the incinerators.
The problem is that when Rama signed the contract to give a bonus to the company that would receive the Tirana incinerator concession, the company did not exist yet. Busy with the work he had to do for state officials, Klodian Zoto didn't even bother to register it with the CKB.
SPAK explains how it happened that a company not registered in the CKB set the state in motion, and was even awarded a bonus by the government for the concession of tens of millions of euros. But since they don't dare to investigate Rama, they are keeping his subordinates in prison, including the former minister Koka or the former secretary, Alqi Blako.
Therefore, when explaining his version of events, Rama needs to think carefully about his words.
He had not planned to touch on this topic at the conference. "This is not a question for me," Ambrozia Meta told the journalist. But when this reminded him of his responsibility for the firm, Rama began to explain himself.
According to him, the prime minister's signature should not be conceived as an individual act, as it is the fruit of a mechanism and procedures that include experts and officials from different institutions.
"I am responsible for every company. And each of my firms is the fruit of a process and a mechanism. And that mechanism has in its composition representatives from institutions or from different spheres that have their own competences and this union of competences brings a result. And when that result gets my signature, it turns into a decision. That's how all decisions are made. You ask me questions that are not within the scope of my competence, and I repeat to you, I have no desire to get involved in these calculations of a media nature, of a political nature, of a non-arithmetic nature, it is the right of everyone to make decisions", said Rama.
It is true that the head of government cannot personally verify in detail the legality of acts and proposals that come to the table during government meetings. The Department for Legislation and its General Secretary take care of document control.
According to the law on the organization of the Council of Ministers, in its article 9, the powers of the Secretary General, currently Angel Agaçi, are defined. One of his duties is also the submission he makes to the Prime Minister on the compatibility of the proposed draft acts with the legislation in force. So the law forces Agac to submit to Rama the documents he will sign and their compliance with the law.
Rama does not say if Agaçi did this, i.e. if he notified him before he dropped the firm to give a bonus to Klodian Zoto's non-existent company.
But according to Berisha, the fault is not only Agac's. With the experience of 8 years as prime minister, Berisha has also denounced the responsibilities of the director of the Department for the Legislation of Acts of the Council of Ministers. At that time, this post was held by Artur Metani.
"He (Metani) bears direct personal responsibility for approving, or not reporting, the granting of a bonus of 8 points in violation of the law to a company that did not exist for the construction of the Tirana burner," Berisha denounced.
The obligations imposed by the law on the duo Metani-Agaçi seem to constitute the mechanism that Rama talks about when he removes from himself the responsibilities for the firm he has laid for the Tirana incinerator. In this case, the dismissal of the responsibility happens to make the tail of the responsibilities.
Beyond the "mechanism" that Rama blames
The affair of the incinerators is of such proportions that it requires the commitment of the entire government. Without Rama's approval, neither Ahmetaj nor Koka could have committed the violations for which they are accused. Rama's firm to give Klodian Zoto a bonus confirms this once again.
Therefore, in order to deny his role as prime minister, Rama was forced to lie openly in the conference, when he said: "My company is decided when the mechanism has finished its work and the issue x, y, z is raised in the government meeting where all the ministers are present. And after it is presented at the government meeting, it receives the approval of all the ministers, and in my government no approvals are received, unless everything is squared off. And it doesn't happen in my government since 10 years that I impose the introduction of any decision that comes unsettled by the mechanisms of discussion and negotiation and confrontation and renegotiation between all parties, which means that the firm is simply and only whitewashing of a decision that is taken as a result of this whole process".
According to what the prime minister says, it was discussed in the government to find an agreement with all the ministers on the decision that was being taken. But the documents do not match Rama's assertions.
Because for the bonus for Klodian Zoto's company, two ministers had expressed their opposition.
In the answer that the Minister of Justice of that time, Ylli Manjani gave back to the Minister of the Environment, Lefter Koka, precisely about the bonus in question, he opposes the granting of the bonus. Citing the law on unsolicited offers, Manjani writes that "at no point in it is the Council of Ministers expressly authorized to approve the granting of the bonus".
Ermonela Felaj, who at that time was Minister of State, was also against it. In the answer he returned to Koka, Felaj evidenced the fact that the company that would receive the bonus did not exist in KKB. A few months ago, during a parliamentary session, Felaj stood by her signatures against the incinerator, when she responded to Sali Berisha.
"In that matter there are only 2 of my firms and both are against" said Felaj, defending himself from the opposition, but at the same time bluffing his boss, who despite the warning given to his subordinates, signed in open violation of the law./Lapsi.al
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