Ombudsman also rejects Government's decision to pay electricity for northerns

The Kosovo Government's separation of means for coverage of expenditures on electricity supplies to northern Kosovo municipalities, People's Lawyer Hilimi Jashari is considering discriminatory and human rights violations.

The Kosovo government at the meeting held days ago has allocated financial means worth 1m euros to KOSTT to cover electricity supply expenses in northern Kosovo municipalities.

For this, Finance Minister Bedri Hamza has said that 10m to 12m euros will be allocated by the end of the year.

The “is unfair and constitutes discrimination, when other citizens pay bills in the name of others, but even this current situation is actually money to the taxpayers of citizens who are dedicated to losses in the north due to non-paying from citizens in the north”, Jashar said in an interview for Kosova Press.

He has added that the court procedures will also begin for this new Government decision, as if earlier for suspension of billing practices at the value of 4.5 percent in each of citizens' ill-treated bills.

Lawyer Jashar says the indictment filed by the Court by the Ombudsman's Institution to Z should be considered as soon as possible. The RRE for the compensation of citizens in proportion to the amount of means that has been injected in the unjust and illegal way.

The review that will have to be organised in the Court is required, and we as the Lawyer's Institute will raise the demands for citizens to compensate for the amount of means that has been registered in an unfair and illegal manner, as we have appreciated in our particular report on the matter. The indictment has been filed, and we expect the court to be held by”, he said.

However, the Court had long earlier ruled with a provisional requirement in favor of citizens with whom the billing practice of 4.5 percent on each of the city's receipts.

The Ombudsman's institution has also recommended that Kosovo's government change the pension law as soon as it can contribute to the category citizens of the Republic of Kosovo, who have worked before 1999 and have failed to achieve the 15 years of retirement, without their blame because of the discrimination of Kosovo's violent measures.

He says they have sought to abolish the law because the 15-year criteria constitute discrimination of this category of citizens.

“We have considered that such a dividing border..., in the current phase, constitutes a violation because most of them fail to meet this 15-year working experience, testify, and consider that they are discriminated against by the rest of the category... So we think that discrimination is being made in this category, which they were unjustly removed from the system then because of the violent”, Jashar said.

Jashari says that an alternative has been described in the recommendation, which is at least 10 years not 15.

By contrast, the government has recognised the working state from 1990 to 1999.