Traders in a Tirana industrial market have blocked one of city’s main thoroughfares for a second day in protest against government demands for them to install new cash registers.
The protest during the morning commute on Thursday led to traffic chaos across the capital.
The traders have refused to install the registers, claiming they are too expensive as the companies selling are operating a market monopoly linked to the Minister of Finance, Ridvan Bode.
The government has denied the claims, saying the process is regular and will go forward as the last deadline to install the machines expired on June 31.Socialist opposition leader Edi Rama: “The process for the cash registers is corrupt and the corruption stems from the office of the minister Bode.”
Bode denied the allegations, saying: “There is no monopoly or licenses granted by the ministry of finance,” He said the protests were “fermented politically by the opposition to create chaos in the country”.
News source: BalkanInsight.com link: article
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