What about chicken coops and cowsheds, will the majority forgive them?

The Socialist Party announced today that it had prepared a draft law for the forgiveness of fines that citizens cannot repay. The draft law about which PD and SP debated for more than 1 hour, was not even made available to the opposition in advance, so that it could then be discussed.

However, SP, even though he did not have a letter on the draft law, requested the examination with an accelerated procedure.

The reaction of the opposition caused the Speaker of Parliament Elisa Spiropali to take out a letter with several signatures in the Assembly hall, assuming that it was the draft law requested by the SP.

This majority, which today with its hand on its heart wants to forgive the fines that this same majority has imposed on the citizens, years ago did not spare any windows or chicken coops without a permit.

LEK 26 MILLION FINE FOR ONE Shack

A farmer was fined 26 million lek just for a hut he was building on his house in a village. The hut the farmer was building had originally been a greenhouse, which apparently didn't work out.

So, the farmer decided to turn it into a cowshed. However, the latter set in motion the state authorities who, with an "operation", caught the farmer red-handed and charged him a fine of 26 million lek.

FINE FOR A KITTEN OF CHICKEN

The most egregious case was that of the 82-year-old woman from Narta, who in 2022 was prosecuted after the chicken coop she was rebuilding was deemed construction without permission by the prosecution.

For this, the 82-year-old woman was forcibly taken out and dragged by the officers to get into the police van.

3 YEARS IN PRISON FOR A WINDOW

The well-known artist, Boiken Lako, was sentenced by the Court of Tirana to three years in prison, which was converted to probation. Lako received a fine of 500,000 lek (old) from IKMT, as the musician had opened four windows on one side of the building, which he was going to turn into a music studio, in the NISHERAKU area in Tirana.

Lako had received a permit from mini-municipality no. 7 to carry out works. However, a phone call to the municipality caused the inspectors to go there and prove that during the works, four windows on the second floor of the building had been opened without permission.

This was also the violation caught by them that took Lako to court even though he had obtained permission to carry out the works.

TO KILL YOURSELF FOR 35 THOUSAND LEK

Qamil Zela was arrested in 2014 after being imprisoned for 35,000 old lekë. Zela hanged himself in Rrogozhina prison, as he only had one clock in his apartment out of the two that the authorities were supposed to have. At the time, his family called on the government to end imprisonment for electricity theft.

The above-mentioned cases are the product of the majority that today shouted from the Assembly with pride that as long as they had the majority votes in the Parliament, they would forgive the fines. This statement was made by the Minister of Justice, Ulsi Manja, drunk with enthusiasm not to wait for the election campaign to launch the draft law, as a triumph of the SP.