Former owners complain about new property law

17/07/2015 00:00

Representatives of land owners oppose the new law for the property
compensation, saying that it violates the rule of law, articles of the
Constitution and the European Card of Human Rights.

“They have removed the concept of returning the property. There will be only compensation. This compensation will be done with prices of 1945 for owners and with prices of 2015 for the government”, said Agim Toro, General Secretary of “Property with Justice”.

The Head of the Agency for Property Return and Compensation rejects these claims and explains the formula for compensating 26.000 that have been waiting for the past 23 years, and 9300 others that will be reviewed in three years based on the new law.

Sonila Qato, Director of the Agency, says that the owners will be clarified in the next days, and that the instrument is equal for everyone who used to have an agricultural land that will be compensated with the current market value of agricultural lands”, declared Sonila Qato, Director of the Agency.

But the representatives of owners say that the postponement of legalization deadlines deepens the ownership issues. Mrs.Qato explains that the new law will remove the obstacles for the recognition of this ownership.

“The illegal constructions are still on. The legalization law of 2006 was postponed to 2014. There will be another electoral campaign after two years. They will say that they will legalize them but owners will not be paid and this will be the solution”, Toro declared.

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