Albanian Statixtic Institute, INSTAT under the PM's Berisha control

The Socialists opposed the project proposed by the majority that establishes the Institution of Statistics under the direct administrative control of the Prime Minister's Office.

“With this amend your are sanctioning ‘de jure’ what happens ‘de facto’, the complete control of INSTAT by the Prime Minister. Our stance for this case is completely opposed to your proposition.  INSTAT must be an independent and completely reliable institution, attributes that unfortunately it doesn't have”, declared the Socialist MP, Mimi Kodheli.

Selami Xhepa, Democratic MP, declared that the draft doesn’t damage the independence and reliability of the data published by INSTAT, since they are monitored by other institutions that are not under the Prime Ministry’s control.

“Everyone knows very well that INSTAT has IMF experts who have given the methodological bases of this institution, and that on those bases have been worked so far. The IMF experts are permanently attached to this institution, for guaranteeing the integrity it deservs”, Xhepa declared.

The draft was approved at the Parliamentary Commission of Economy with the votes of the Democratic MPs, but Mimi Kodheli declared that the Socialists will cancel the law when they will come to power, and will set INSTAT under the control of the Parliament, which guarantees the independence of this institution and the data it publishes.