17/11/1999
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Republika

17 November 1999

Mediu: The opposition should oversee the institutions

P. 3

Shehu: PD should correct the mistakes of the Congress

P. 3

Bode: Meta is bringing back communist nostalgics

P. 5

1 million drachmas to burn down Kadare’s house

P. 2

Where has the money gone?

Donors are springing up like mushrooms, but above ground, as they increasingly complain to one another about how they are being ripped off. Meanwhile, the first step should be to find those who have appropriated the money for roads and energy. The most concrete fact is this: those who provide money for Albania disappear without a trace. And this This is the first question government officials ask when they come to power, saying that they will take measures so that from now on everything will be all right. The same thing happened this time when the new minister responsible for Energy said that, regardless of the weather conditions, abuses had taken place, which is why people have no electricity today. The minister before him made the same declaration, while the people continue to look on as those in charge complain increasingly to one another. have appropriated the money for roads and energy. And that can happen only when every official is required to declare all the wealth they possess as soon as they take up the high office of leadership. But unfortunately, this time too, the new Government did not take such a step: not one of those appointed to head the ministries made public, for everyone to know, what wealth they have, so they can be asked to account for how they increased that capital, at a time when the country may once again be without paved roads, without electricity and without water, with nothing but empty promises, as we have been accustomed to seeing in Albania for 10 years.

Those in power are poorer than the citizens

. The disclosure of the assets of senior officials ends in a bluff. P. 9

Turkey, 547 dead

. P. 10

VEFA’s prosecutor against the chief administrator

. P. 6

Lazarat kingpins arrested

. P. 2

Tirana facing an emer-gency

. P. 11

On the instincts of American democracy in setting officials’ salaries

. P. 15