A question by the journalist of Syri TV, Ambrozia Meta about the signing of the VKM that gave the bonus to the incinerator company without being registered made Prime Minister Edi Rama squirm at the press conference at noon today.
Prime Minister Rama tried to answer the question by explaining how the process for signing a government act works, but he did not give a concrete answer, considering it a question not for him.
The struggle not to answer has caused a series of awkward questions and answers between him and the reporter.
Journalist Ambrozia Meta: In December 2016, you signed a VKM by which you give approval for a bonus of 8 points for Klodian Zoto's "Integrated Energy" company for the economic and financial result for the landfill and the construction of the Tirana incinerator. Although you were warned by ex-minister Felaj and ex-minister Manjani that this company does not exist, why did you favor a ghost company that was not registered in the CKB?
Prime Minister Rama: This question has the same answer that I gave to a colleague before and there is no other answer. It's not a question for me at all.
Journalist Ambrozia Meta: Did you sign the VKM, or are you not responsible for your signature?
Prime Minister Rama: I am responsible for every company and every company of mine is the fruit of a process and a mechanism and that mechanism has in its composition representatives from different institutions or spheres that have their own competences and this union of competences leads to a result and when this result also receives my signature, it turns into a decision and that's how all decisions are made. You ask me questions that are not at all in the sphere of my competence and I repeat, I have no desire to get involved in these calculations of a political, media and non-arithmetic nature that come for various reasons. It is everyone's right to make calculations...
Journalist Ambrozia Meta: I'm sorry, but these are not calculations, but a decision that you signed by giving a bonus to a company that was created a few months after this decision. Are you responsible for this?
Prime Minister Rama: I believe that I do not need a translator when we speak in the Albanian language that I heard.
Journalist Ambrozia Meta: You are not answering me because you gave the bonus to a phantom company.
Prime Minister Rama: I heard the question and gave you my answer and my answer and not your answer.
Journalist Ambrozia Meta: You were informed by former minister Felaj that this company did not exist and by former minister Manjani that this company did not exist.
Prime Minister Rama: The government is a mechanism, which works on the basis of a chain with many links and does not work as a relationship between an owner who takes the journalist by message with the question he should ask.
Journalist Ambrozia Meta: Excuse me, were you notified when you signed?
Prime Minister Rama: Madam..
Journalist Ambrozia Meta: Please do not make such parallelisms and give me an answer to the specific question I am asking you.
Prime Minister Rama: I am giving you explanations..
Journalist Ambrozia Meta: You are drawing parallels with the owners and journalists while I am asking you a very simple question.
Prime Minister Rama: I'm giving you the explanation calmly and let's not do the rally at the press conference.
Journalist Ambrozia Meta: Please tell me if it was you who signed the VKM for a non-existent company?
Prime Minister Rama: I do not have an answer that is not my answer. I only return my answer.
Journalist Ambrozia Meta: You signed that VKM Mr. Prime Minister.
Prime Minister Rama: I will calmly explain how the decision-making process works. I do not receive individual notifications. They are all part of a decision-making process and mechanism, and in the end, my signature is decided when the mechanism has completed its work and when the approval of all ministers is obtained, and it has not happened in my government for 10 years that I impose the introduction of any arbitrary decision. The firm is the disclosure of this decision. In my government, it happens that a decision lasts 6 months, it happens that 32 decisions are made in one day, it depends on how the interaction process goes. It is an institutional process, not a bargaining process, chatter.
Journalist Ambrozia Meta: Excuse me, but how do you give contracts to a company that does not exist?
Prime Minister Rama: There is another question that syri.net does not decide these existences and non-existences, it is decided by someone else. If I have, if I have a question mark about anything, they are dealt with in the ways that a state has designated.
Journalist Ambrozia Meta: There was a posting of the construction permit for the Tirana incinerator issue, and the construction company's soil which should have been deposited inside the landfill was deposited outside the Tirana incinerator.
Prime Minister Rama: No, I am aware of another thing that does not seem to me to be a coincidence, that beyond all the problems that have come out of this process, a part of the policy continues to be trashed. / Hashtag.al