
Prime Minister Edi Rama has set a condition for socialist mayors that a chance to run again to lead municipalities in the 2027 local elections will depend on the target that the government will set for the mountains package.
Rama said that by the end of the third mandate, the way should be opened for 1 thousand investments in 61 municipalities through the mountains package. Rama said that each municipality will be a target according to the size of the potential, for example up to 5, 10 or 15 investments. He criticized the mayors again for not yet defining the maps of the priority areas, saying that they are not doing science.
"Not all municipalities have completed the first phase, it is unacceptable, what should be our objective. I don't know if you saw it, but when the mountains package was announced on the first day, there were 700 or so expressions of interest from Albanians abroad, it is a safe investment to attract the savings of Albanians abroad and for Albanians abroad to return."
How is it possible that the first phase is not finished? What is this great science to determine the map where this development will take place? Someone might say I have the entire municipality as a priority, come on, goodbye.
What science do you do that I don't understand. However, I have asked the director of the national planning agency to be available to each municipality for maps for whatever in terms of technical assistance.
Target for each municipality. Our ambition should be 1 thousand investments from this package, and if you divide them by territory into 60 municipalities, they are not many, I have asked the minister to determine how many investments should be introduced into the process when each of you will claim to re-run. There will be no re-run if the target of this project has not been reached, some 10, some 5, some 7, some 15, according to the size of the potential, but 1 thousand investments if we take the most modest possible figure for each of these investments, the lowest possible, of 50 thousand euros, we are assuming that the building is there and only needs a modification, calculate what would happen to the economy with this injection in 3 years. Because in the last year of the mandate, the doors of 1 thousand investments should be opened, focus and take it very seriously", said Rama.