Thursday, April 13, 2006

Will the first head roll?

Out of a budget of 11.1 million euros, the Ministry of Returns spent 343 thousand on cars and out of those 176 thousand on a BMW for Minister Petkovic. Another 2 million euros are unaccounted for. The rest of the money was mishandled.

When Çeku came in, the hope was that he would do a total cleanup of the government. But he is a newcomer to the AAK party and has not enough authority to overrule the party structures that put corrupt cronies in the government in the first place. Çeku accepted the position offered to him by the ruling coalition on the condition that he will be able to do a thorough evaluation of the work of each ministry and clean up any ministry not meeting the standards after 100 days. Let's see how the political machine will grind on this obstacle.

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