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Koha Jonë

5 January 1997

PS: The loan sharks must return the deposits

Socialists analyze loan sharks for the first time. PS: The loan sharks must return the deposits The government must take measures so that the owners do not flee Albania Hajdari: Tomorrow the hour of the big strike The key words of the PS in the debate opened several weeks ago with the borrowing firms and the government are socialist, and they suggest that only the firms, above all the domestic ones, should answer and ultimately pay. The transparency of the firms has already been discussed by parliament. The main decision for organizing a united response has come from a party which, through the head of parliament, Ylli Vejsiu, and the deputy chairman of the parliamentary group of the party’s National Council, Anastas Angjeli, has the document and demands that it be declared and explained that the state must at least take measures so that the small amount of deposited money, at least part of the deposits, is paid back in the end. What prompted this reaction from the socialists and the head of statements was the collapse of the state after the president’s arrival. The socialist leader has told the PS that the government must make this clear there. This is also expected to be done by the government; to be the first in shaping public opinion with a coefficient of gains, whether morally or in the desire for control, all the way to the entrenched governments. That outcome in government, according to sources, has made clear that this year brought, according to official sources, around 260 million dollars into the state budget. The PS does not hesitate and has not accepted the idea of shutting down the activity of the borrowing firms, but it calls on the lawyers of the borrowing firms to place the burden on the borrowing firms. The Socialist opposition was the first to point out to them a year ago that their deceptive scheme and the money and credit operation was illegal. According to the PS, the main state entities responsible for this phenomenon are the political and administrative institutions as well as those placed under parliamentary debate. The government has decided to maintain a clear public stance, namely that the economic activities managed by the firms must be clarified and brought into the framework of the law, in favor of the needy strata and of those whom the world of usurers harms, whatever the government may be. The PS must take the depositors' side to show that it is responsible, and together with the government, if it is incapable of ensuring lawfulness and transparency, because if the government of Korça? [?] meant tolerance toward these firms established through unclear agreements, it must admit that now there may be an advantage and it may disappear even before it starts. SP, although it has been clearly informed, until yesterday the two investigators did not [?] present, there appears to be an English-style surprise regarding the borrowing firms, trying through arguments and decisions of other international organizations. PN? in such conditions, took a clear position by demanding transparency, discipline, cooperation and solidarity, especially with the poorest strata. The government, both as a state body and its political apparatus, has done nothing to guarantee this right of citizens and to keep under control developments in the illegal deposit market. As one of the PS deputies said, all this situation has been aggravated further by the lack of accurate economic and financial information, as well as the passivity of the state in dealing realistically with these wounds of Albanian society.

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