[ALBSA-Info] Article by Zef Preci

[Agron Alibali]

Article by Former Minister Zef Preçi

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The third challenge (of the new government) is the road toward the economic reform in the country, especially the privatization process of the strategic sectors of the economy.  Some mainly political steps, which however carry an obvious background of economic interests of the outgoing government, such as the unjustified rush to privatize the Savings Bank and the financial sector in general, the dubious formula for the privatization of the public economy giant “Albtelecom”, personnel nominations of many high functionaries in vital sectors of economy based solely on personal ties and on decisions of incompetent supervisory boards, etc, even when such steps are then presented as obligations of the Albanian state toward international financial organizations, such as IMF, bring to the conclusion that these will become the “Nassreddin’s nail” not only for the relentless efforts to preserve the same governing team - at least in the vital sectors of the economy and finance of the country on behalf of the “continuation of reforms” - but also because the efforts of this speculative reform will become a serious obstacle for a different government.

 

I do not believe that there is any naïve citizen left in this country, who will trust the “intelligent advices” of any individual or expert - be they local or foreigners – including the current official representative of IMF in Albania, that “Albtelecom must be privatized as soon as possible”, that “the Albanian private capital is not yet mature to take part in the privatization of strategic sectors”, that “this country can make progress and develop a market economy without necessarily having any national bank, i.e. Albanian-owned bank”.

 

That is why the preserving or changing of the government is, in one sense, a separation process from the efforts of certain segments of financial oligarchy to consolidate even further, to impose complete control upon politics OR the return in the institutional management of the state, in the promised values of democracy so much desired by the majority of the Albanian people.”

 
Zef Preçi, Three challenges of the new governance, Illyria, # 1064, 17-20 August 2001


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