Democratic Party MP Jorida Tabaku has responded to the claims of Prime Minister Edi Rama, who stated that Albania is above the European Union average for public procurement.
Through a status on social media, Tabaku has published a letter from the European Union raising concerns about changes to the ports law, which allow them to be awarded without competition to government clients.
Tabaku's full status
Public procurement figures are more stubborn than propaganda.
1 in 2 public tenders are awarded without real competition. Of the rest, most of the money ends up with a handful of companies that have been circulating public funds for years.
Meanwhile, the country's largest projects are passed through special laws, PPPs, concessions or "strategic investors", often in contradiction to the spirit of the SAA and the EU's principles of free competition.
Strategic tourist ports are the newest chapter of this model: public property and strategic infrastructure are transferred without real competition and without equal market standards.
And the problem is not solved by giving the system names like "AI", "Diella", AKSHI or EA Solution.
Because when the political system produces clientelism, favoritism, and custom-made laws, it automatically also produces "viruses" that infect every technology.
Artificial intelligence cannot create transparency where the political will for real competition is lacking.
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