New Law on Government Proliferates Reduction of Ministers

According to civil society representatives, a small government has more positive effects.

Visar Rushiti political analysts in Democracy Plus (D+), has said the law should determine the number of ministries the Government should have.

It has also shown the benefits of a smaller government of ministries, rather than the Kosovo governments so far.

A smaller government has a lot of positive effects, but at least two can be mentioned here: preserving the budget due to reducing government spending and easier co-ordination of jobs in a less-intensive government ministry”, Rushiti said about news.net.

So far the composition of Kosovo governments has been the largest number of ministries and deputy ministers, being among the largest in Europe.

The current government led by Haradinaj has 21 ministries and over 70 deputy ministers, meanwhile, according to Rusti, the number of ministries must be reduced to 13.

“The number of ministries should not be greater than 13 and all ministries should be organised according to working fields and the involvement of certain ministries in a similar or rough field of work is averted. The number of deputy ministers should be one for the ministry until the number of deputy prime ministers no more than two”, Rusti has said.

Since the war, no government has been able to draft such a law, despite having had the effort to do so.

And the delay in drafting this bill thinks there will again be Artan Murati from the Kosovo Democratic Institute.

He says that in terms of drafting the Law on Government, there is no reconciliation among political parties.

Now and how long past governments have been trying to prosecute the government bill or at least they've included it in the legislative agenda, but they've never managed to prosecute it in the Assembly”.

“Even this time I will believe that there will be delays for prosecution in the Kosovo Assembly, but even if it is processed then the various approaches of political subjects will begin, in terms of determining the number of ministries, as there is no compliance between political subjects on how the Law on Government<x1) is being prosecuted, Murtati has indicated.

He has estimated that drafting this law is necessary, after him, the way governments are being created more are being done to accommodate party militants or persons who make up the ruling coalition.

Prime Minister Haradidaj on Tuesday at the executive meeting after the establishment of the Commission to draft the Government Bill, indicated that with this decision we send a good message to the EU, that the state of government and the way government is not unlimited.

The government is what it is and I think it's functional, it's doing its jobs, but as the country's government and as a country we're aspiring to become an EU member, the Law for Government is necessary, a law that would define the number of resources, the number of ministries, the number of responsibles, including deputy prime ministers, the deputy ministers. This is a process which is up to the government to do and I know that some of the work was done in the past”, Haradinaj was expressed.

Building the Law on Government is also seen as the executive legal program for 2018. This law is envisioned to be completed on 20 November this year.