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Ruling MPs request 2-year freeze on new gambling law ahead of mid-2017 general elections

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TIRANA, Nov. 29 – With only a month to go before a law disciplining gambling in downtown areas become effective and few months before the mid-2017 general elections, several ruling majority MPs have proposed some amendments that postpone the law’s coming into force by another two years, citing concerns over gambling businesses not being ready to move to tourist attractions, the possible spread of illegal gambling and the state budget losing millions of euros in taxes, in a move which comes following apparent successful lobbying by the lucrative gambling industry. In a draft law submitted to Parliament in late November,…

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