The MPs we don't need/ They steal phone money

2025-07-12 13:01:00, Denoncim CNA

In a breakdown of information, data collection, CNA easily discovered that members of the Albanian parliament are paid between 4-5.5 million old lekë, i.e. between 4 thousand and 5,500 or 6,000 euros per month, and within this total salary, which includes per diems, bonuses, participation in committees, etc., there is also a telephone payment.

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A payment that amounts to around 170 thousand lek per month. We observed and extracted the offers of the two main mobile companies in Albania, One and Vodafone, and in a simple reading of the offers they have online, we are not talking about the business offers that are even more favorable, it turns out that how much and for what our deputies use them, the payments made by parliament and the consumption that deputies make and what comes from the offers are three times higher.

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So, with about 5-6 thousand new lek, the deputies would secure spectacular, simple packages, offers that have unlimited roaming, incoming and outgoing calls, internet, etc., while receiving three times the payment, which is an open theft. A threefold payment that costs tens of millions of lek per year and hundreds of millions of lek for a mandate.

And, the offers continue, the costs of telephone expenses are reduced for all citizens, while for MPs they continue to remain high.

We brought a complete material while waiting for the reaction of the Assembly on these fees, as we will not be satisfied with that, leaving this monthly theft simply as a denunciation, but we will bring it several times, we will publish it until there is a reaction and a responsible structure of the Assembly takes action to cut this type of expense that may seem small compared to others, but has a great weight.

The MPs we don't need/ They steal phone money

Packages from telephone companies

It's a fairly large budget that could go to many other things and there's no need to steal it and go into the pockets of MPs to eat lunch, maybe there's very little, but an expensive bottle of wine drunk by an MP, which is stolen from the payments made for the phone.

So, the MP is given 170 thousand lek to pay for the phone, while his bill comes to 20-40 or 50 thousand lek and he puts the rest of the money in his pocket, completely unfair. The Parliament can pay the MP for phone expenses up to a limit, up to 5-6 thousand new lek, according to the maximum offers given by the mobile companies and everything else more or less is paid by each party.

So, if the phone bill is 3 thousand new lek and he has to pay 17 thousand lek, that money is kept by the Assembly budget and does not go to the respective MP.

If the limit is 5 thousand lek and the phone costs 8 thousand lek, the MP pays the difference out of his own pocket, since they don't use phones only for the people's problems, but they also use them for their own pleasures and for their family or for other work.

That's why we have brought this concern, which is actually worth tens and tens of millions of lek that, if collected in one season, would greatly benefit the Assembly's budget to do much better things than stealing MPs and using them for their own pleasures./ CNA