Whether Hamza will implement the salary hike decision is still unknown

The finance minister yesterday has abstained at the moment when the government cabinet voted to lift the suspension government had decided on the decision when the case was sent to the Constitutional Court by the Vetevendosje Movement.

He was even very clear at the Government meeting in relation to the increase in wages for senior government officials.

Today he has not preferred to talk about this matter.

Hamza said all he had to declare was a day ago.

At the Government meeting, the finance minister said this issue should be adjusted to the Law on Salaries.

Despite this, his chief Ramush Haradinaj has asked Hamza to implement that decision.

But there is someone who hopes Hamza will not implement the prime minister's decision to raise his salaries and the entire government cabinet.

Kosovo Economic Ode Chairman Safet Gerjaliu hopes that Minister Hamza will prevent the realisation of such a decision as soon as possible.

He says OEK is concerned with what is happening in Kosovo and that decisions such as the latter for increasing government salaries by 150 percent will generate negative, economic and social effects, and that it will be a demotivatement for young people, to face private sector challenges.

Gerjaliu stresses that with such decisions, Kosovo has become an experimental space from which the citizens of this country are suffering.

He says that at a time when there is low economic growth, a very challenging situation for the private sector, a high unemployment rate and a decline in foreign direct investment, Kosovo does not have the luxury to experiment with, with such a salary increase.

Gerxhaliu says Kosovo more than the economic crisis has a judicial crisis, which he says based on the Constitutional decision, on government salaries.

According to him, Kosovo deserves something different and not such a situation, where non-profession and evil is stimulated, rather than education, health and all of these butts where Kosovo society needs urgent investment.

The biggest paradox for him remains the fact that an adviser, who, as he says, runs the bags of government officials, is paid multiplely over the doctor.

Regarding the decision to raise wages, the Vetevendosje Movement has reacted and the Vetevendosje, which had also demanded interpretation by the Constitutional Court, which was rejected Monday.

This move has warned that it will freeze criminal charges against Prime Minister Haradinaj and ministers who have voted the decision to raise its salaries.

Unlike the IMF, it has reacted to the decision to raise salaries. International Monetary Fund in Kosovo chief Ruud Vermeulen, the decision to raise political staff salaries by Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has seen with concern.

He at the time Haradinaj made the decision to raise wages, had said that this decision could boost the appetite of other sectors for salary increases and is not meant for the 2018 budget.