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The deputy of the Democratic Party, Jorida Tabaku, reacted to the proposal of the majority to approve, for the third time, the law on "Strategic Investments".
Tabaku says that a few months ago the majority voted against the legal proposals to suspend it and according to her it is "tailored to the interests of a small clientele and did not offer any added value for the economy and foreign investments".
Tabaku emphasizes that these are the strategic investors who get rich from shell companies that hide the real investors, while he states that this law "does not recognize or promote competition, but narrows the market and market opportunities to those who have access to power".
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Strategic investors and socialist notaries!
A few months ago, the socialist majority voted against the legal proposal that I submitted to the Albanian parliament in December 2022 to suspend the Law on Strategic Investments. While in the first days of this new year, we learned that the socialist majority is preparing to postpone even more the deadline of the Law of Strategic Investments, adding another fish for the Albanians.
Ironically, the parliament will consider a majority MP's proposal to postpone the Law on Strategic Investments. If my proposal, which was defeated by the majority, was essentially the undoing of a Law that was not only tailored to the interests of a small clientele but at the same time did not offer any added value for the economy and foreign investments.
On the contrary, the socialist proposal has written on the front what it aims to achieve by postponing the time period of the implementation of the law. It is enough to see the "work and efficiency" that the Law on Strategic Investors has had to understand who needs it and why its implementation is being postponed.
When the majority rejected my proposal, in July 2023, they gave the excuse that "The law will expire at the end of 2023, so there is no reason to suspend it now." The truth is different. The behavior of the majority suggests that it not only has no intention of ending the timely enforcement of the law, but seems to have created such a dependency that it will turn it into normality.
And normality is not a euphemism of mine, but a reality that Albanians have touched since 2015 when it was approved in parliament with much pomp. At that time, on behalf of the opposition, I proposed two amendments that were opposed and rejected by the socialist majority. With the will and enthusiasm with which he approved the law in 2015, he extended his life twice in a row in 2018 by two years and in 2021 by two more years. And as if to fulfill the prophecy that their socialism would not fade if they extended it for the third time, they have decided to attack to defend the socialist normality of this law.
What is socialist normality?
From the long list of beneficiaries you could see foreign investors less than the fingers of a hand, all the beneficiaries were and are the usual suspects. The usual beneficiaries who receive tenders, PPPs and concessions, people under investigation for links to organized crime or even Russian oligarchs declared nongrata in the USA. These are the strategic investors who get rich from shell companies that hide the real investors.
A law that does not recognize and promotes competition, but narrows the market and market opportunities to those who have access to power.
This socialist normality has simultaneously produced a new norm related to strategic investments. The so-called socialist rate of strategic investment. In order to meet this norm, you must have certain criteria that are determined by the Strategic Investments Council; where, as is well known, people with close political ties to the government are preferred, preferably only Albanians with offshore companies and why not also people with ties to criminal groups within the country. If the investor aims to help the government in the electoral elections, he gets a big plus and is preferential in the selection in question.
All international reports show that Albania needs serious and good investments in the field of economy. That the government should change the economic vision by giving voice to real strategic investments, for real fiscal and economic policies that promote meritocracy and competition. The socialist majority thinks that Albania can progress only through the postponement of the Law on Strategic Investments.
In vain, it is expected to change precisely the creators of a parliamentary system that has turned into the notary "Aferim" of the strategic wishes of a minority.
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