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Republika

E premte, 26 Nëntor 1999

Parliament brings back the year ’44

By Ilir Bushi Why even the DP is clashing over the property statute Expropriations, by conditioning such a scenario, and also for the construction of water plants. The duration of the period for the “taking” of land ranges from 6 years to a few days. The advisers present the imagined scheme as justified, arguing that “2.1 The Council of Ministers may decide partial expropriations in the public interest, on condition that such action leads to a significant increase in the value of the remaining plot.” But what will the conditions for this increase in value and for benefiting from it be? Article 5 of the same draft answers this question. According to the draft, the expropriating entity or the public contracting authority “may, within the means of expropriation, determine rights of servitude, the removal of restrictions for owners, owners, or other rights over the property, when these measures serve temporary or permanent public needs in return for compensation to the owner.” Thus the client’s privileges in the “state” have been reaffirmed. The Christian Democrats have described this part of the draft as a whole as “a second post-communism,” arguing that article 4.4. Although it has not left them completely re-exposed among the collaborators of this legal reform. According to this political force, they have decided to also open discussion on the issue of returning property to the persecuted. They have identified in parliament the same lack of the maximum scheme which once cost dearly but today prevents it from being expressed. As a result, in the perspective of parliament established as the maximum scheme of Skanderbeg’s words or not free of transactional interests, but this time led by a “super-ministry.” If the submitted projects are examined carefully, one notices the tendency to treat every plot with a certain value as “in public service.” This means the government is given unlimited scope for use. Under privatization conditions, it is the government that governs. In this way de facto nationalization will be possible. And to avoid such an “expropriation,” the commission must define the limits of use. The opposition has called this a return to 1944. Worse still, the interests of owners and the persecuted are now being violated by a process similar to that of the former regime.
Ilir Bushi Skënderbeu

Cartoon of a man standing in front of a sack labeled “PROPERTY”.

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