Ina Zhupa, strong accusations against socialists/ "You are environmental terrorists"

2024-12-19 11:03:00, Politikë CNA

Ina Zhupa, strong accusations against socialists/ "You are environmental

Deputy Ina Zhupa

Deputy Ina Zhupa made strong accusations against the government in the interview with the Minister of Tourism and Environment, Mirela Kumbaro.

While speaking about the new law on Protected Areas, Zhupa described the socialists as environmental terrorists.

She stated that the majority has concreted 5.8 million m2 of land for strategic investments and now it has attacked the protected areas.

Speech:

In February of this year, in a shameful session, without discussion, you passed the new law on Protected Areas, a clientelistic law that eliminated the protection of these areas of vital importance for the country and opened the way for constructions for them.

The Ministry of Construction Kumbaroja denied that the protected areas would be affected, but it took only 7 months for them to approve draft decisions affecting 9 protected areas, approved on 25.09.2024 and published in Official Gazette No. 165, dated 27/09/2024. What is noticeable is the decrease in protection, from the first degree to the third degree.

Kumbaro is the longest-lived ministry because it is the ministry with the longest hand towards cultural and natural wealth in Albania.

Where I started with VKM in 2017, otherwise from the map of the Ensemble of Cultural Monuments of 2000, left out of the historical center a large part of the territory, where the majority of the historical buildings of the city of Tirana and the National Theater are located. You continued with the cafeteria in Butrint and the first framework agreement with AADF for its concession. Then in January 2022, it removed entire areas from protected areas. To cap it off with this new law that ultimately destroys protected areas.

In order to concretize the protected areas, you have decided to postpone for the fifth time the deadline of the law on strategic investments, with a member of parliament who unfortunately also represents my district in the assembly, but in this case she is not a proposer but a signatory.

Passed as a temporary law in 2015, it has served to largely concrete the coast, giving 5.8 million square meters of land to strategic investors across the country.

You are an Environmental Terrorist. You concreted 5.8 million m2 of land clearly shows that the state has run out of public lands for its friends and we have opened the pot of protected areas, our national parks, the wealth we owe to our children.

Although the stated purpose of the strategic investment law was to absorb foreign investments, this law has so far 'rewarded' many power clients, some courtiers, even members of parliament and their families.

It is now clearly seen that it is related to the interest of the ZMA because one of the changes proposed by the deputy is related to giving this committee the authority to decide on the use for strategic investors of the coasts of seas, rivers and lakes for beach stations. O men, after you took the land, now the seas and lakes and prepare a law to take the air too.

In 2022, the status of a protected area was removed and the way was opened for investments, in the urban area of ??Ksamil, the beaches of Manastir, Paskyra, Pëlëbardhave, Gjiri te Harta and up to the southern border such as Gjiri i Marina and gjiri i Pema e Thë.

Also, that decision shrunk 15% of the areas on the coast, where thousands of hectares were affected in the area of ??Vjosa-Narta Velipojë, Divjakë-Karavastë as well as in Kune.

The government said at the time that it increased the areas of protected areas by 27%, but in fact deep mountain areas are included in this percentage, and thousands of hectares of coastline and areas of strategic importance were removed during the relimitation of the areas, which opened the way for investments. ./ CNA