Municipalities start the year with increasing debts - The stock of liabilities reaches 42 million euros. How do they rank on the list?
The 61 municipalities in the country have accumulated a stock of liabilities to businesses and citizens worth 4.2 billion lek or 42 million euros by March of this year.
According to data from the Ministry of Finance, what is noticeable is that there is an increase in debts of 9 million euros compared to December 2024, where the stock was recorded at 33 million euros.
The obligation imposed by the government to settle the stock, although it has had positive progress in the last two years, still has occasional fluctuations from one quarter to the next. Even though the goal is to completely eliminate the stock of arrears.
Official data from the Ministry of Finance shows that of the total arrears to businesses and citizens, 1 billion lek are unpaid obligations for public investments, 595 million lek for services, around 995 million lek for court decisions and 1 billion lek for other expenses.
But has the ranking of municipalities with the most debts changed and which ones are at the top? Referring to the list, the value of the debts that municipalities have is not necessarily related to their surface area or population size, except for the Municipality of Tirana.
Specifically, the municipality of Tirana ranks first, having left behind the Municipality of Kavaja, which was in the lead until December. Tirana results with a value of liabilities of around 1.3 billion lekë, experiencing a significant increase since December 2024.
Next in line is the municipality of Kavaja with 753 million lek in debt, followed by the municipality of Pogradec with 254 million lek, then comes the municipality of Dimal with 169 million lek and Rrogozhina with 161 million lek, leaving the turn to Vora, Dibra and Cerrik.
At the bottom of the list of municipalities in terms of the value of debts are the municipalities of Saranda, Malësi e Madhe, Korçë, Has, and the list closes with Librazhdi.
Municipalities were required to submit to the Ministry of Finance a detailed plan for the repayment of the stock of liabilities and to adhere to it.
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