Freedom Party MP Petrit Vasili issued a statement to the media today regarding the increase in energy prices.
Vasili says that energy prices in the country, along with fuel prices, are being abusively increased by the government, as according to him, on the stock exchanges they are facing pre-war levels.
"If the 800 kWh band was not set in October with the argument of increasing energy reserves, why did it have to be set in November-December 2022, when prices on the stock exchange are the lowest they have been since October 2021?" said Vasili.
According to him, stock market prices are only falling, but this is due to corrupt reasons. He adds that the Freedom Party's draft laws have long been submitted to the Assembly to deal with the crisis, but the majority is blocking them.
"They only think about how to impose extraordinary taxes on energy producers."- he adds.
Vasili's full statement
While energy prices are continuously decreasing, the government of Edi Rama decided to increase the price of energy for citizens.
The government and ERE apparently did not take into account that the energy price on the HUPX stock exchange from October 22 to October 29 is an average of 144 Euro/MWh.
If the 800 kWh band was not established in October with the argument of increasing energy reserves, why did it have to be established in November-December 2022, when prices on the stock exchange are the lowest they have been since October 2021?
Buying energy on the free market at a price of around 150-200 Euros/MWh and reselling it to your citizens at 375 Euros/MWh, while the EU yesterday announced the award of a grant of 80 million Euros for the energy crisis, is discrimination and is done only for corrupt reasons.
Neglecting the historical data of the sector, continuing with corrupt investment plans and in the meantime burdening the citizens' pockets is abuse and theft.
The Freedom Party's draft laws are in the Assembly, but for these abusers and thieves in power, they only block every initiative.
They only think about how to impose extraordinary taxes on energy producers.
After having wasted hundreds of millions of euros allegedly on investments that did not bring any improvement, except that they ended up in the pockets of the government and its clients.
The mutual debt between public companies in the energy sector reached at the end of June 2022 at 156 billion ALL or 1,3 billion euros, reaching a historical record.
And technical losses continue to be 20% without decreasing at all, however hundreds of millions of euros of investment.
