Exclusive / List: This is where the caste that rules and steals Albania for 28 years has hired children, women and lovers The relatives of politicians and judges have invaded the public administration, educated Albanians work as waiters, in factories, call centers and seek asylum, this is the Albania of injustice of Edi Rama, Sali Berisha, Ilir Meta, Lulzim Basha and Monika Kryemadhi The public…
Politicians’ families occupy state institutions: Husbands and children of DP-SP Members of Parliament, positions in ministries and diractorate offices
Shqiptarja.com Cabinet Ministers and MPs are time and time again the object of attacks from the opposition camps regarding their wealth, but also family members assets and businesses. They accuse each other of nepotistic appointments and hiring of party militants, but in too many cases, it is the politicians’ own families who benefit from the best positions in the administration and who find it easier to find a job. “Shqiptarja.com” Newsletter has monitored last year’s…
Various reports on the employment of family members, spouses and children of MPs and high officials have recently been published in the media. The articles shed light on nepotism, preferential hiring and lack of meritocracy. The details published in said media reports have been extracted from datasets and documents published in the data base created by AIS Money and Power. This database oofers oppen access…
The Government has to amend article 27 of the law ‘On social securities’ which stipulates that the payment on maternity leave has to be made based upon the net payment and not based on the gross payment, consequently this consists to be an explicit violation of women?s rights.’. This request was made by the chairwoman of the Parliamentary Commission on Labour, Social Issues and Public…
Some important institutions financed from the state budget have purchased services from Abissnet, Koço Kokëdhima?s company, while he was still owner of them and MP. Some tribunals, municipalities, universities, medical institutions, state agencies and other institutions have purchased the services of this company, while the law prohibits the members of parliament to benefit from the properties of state or local government and otherwise, it provides…
Data gathered from BIRN from the expenses database of Spending Data Albania suggests that during this year Tirana spent more money for ads than any other municipality. For the first nine months of 2014 the Municipality of Tirana has spent more than 20.4 million Lek (145 thousand Euros) for advertisements in some daily newspapers, while all other municipalities taken together have spent a total of…
Interview on Ora NewsGuest: Mrs. Aranita Brahaj – Albanian Institute of Science Topic of discussion: Why in Albania there is no transparency on Electoral Expenditures.The American Model and the Republic of Albania Issues Drawing a parallel line with the latest United States’ Presidential Election’s transparency and its model in reflecting the electoral expenditures, why we don’t have models like that in Albania? Can Albania apply…
