Selmanaj: State leaders are competing over who is most abused

According to him, Kosovo Parliament Speaker Kadri Veseli's cabinet receives an annual salary of more than half a million euros a year.

I've been looking for information on the number of mayor's advisers, spending on trips abroad, fuel, phone and so forth. I didn't get the answer. Their reason is that they are public. But they're not deciphered. The report says salaries for political advisers and total figures, but not who they are, what expenses they have made with tickets, telephones, and others. There had to be another alternative, including the Anti-Corruption Agency report. The president's cabinet alone spends 520 thousand euros per year on wages, not including travel expenses. 102 thousand kilometers a year make the speaker of the Assembly by car”, he said. “Base Paga is 1040 euros. Only 1,000 euros receive 50 percent of their basic route. The calculations I've made turn out that each counselor gets 1800 euros, cutting off phone and car expenses. What's working in this place?

According to Selmanaj, the Speaker of the Assembly does not need more than two advisers, and by all means 15 as Wessel currently does. This large number of prime minister's cabinet, Selmanaj, has said he sees it as the kind of race between him and the prime minister who is doing the biggest abuses and the race to accommodate people.

He has said he does not expect this to stop, but that “recognizes the chairman and the PDK I expect they will increase the possibility of abuse. They have to increase the possibility of irresponsible access. If they reflected, they'd get here”

Selmanaj has also talked about not participating MPs in parliamentary sessions. He said this is “wrestling” that has no healing. According to him, the only penalty measure should be citizens' votes because administrative measures are not enough.

This is a problem that has conveyed all the legislatures and, unfortunately, this disease can be cured. It continues without the responsibility of MPs. They were chosen by citizens. But that's impressive to MPs. Most of the sessions are being interrupted due to lack of quorum. Sessions are rarely held. It's similar the agenda. The Prime Minister is missing in the interval. He previously selects festivals and forwards Rita Ora, even though he has known he has been two months since the intervention was called. Such an approach to preventing the quorum by the majority has created a sloth among MPs who are taking each process as trivial. Even laws are no longer being treated seriously. When 20 points of the agenda are being established, people are getting tired. There are administrative measures to punish. The greatest judgment or punishment is by vote”, he has said, adding that stopping the wages is not a heavy measure for MPs.

As for the government's platform for the latest phase of dialogue with Serbia and for Kosovo to lead President Hashim Thaci, Selmanaj has said the Parliament must have been involved in dialogue.

“The LDK has a clear stance. I don't support the government platform. We haven't talked about special points. We talked about the platform as a whole. We are talking about the process, not about names that are available. We said there were unconstitutional elements and we had reference to this too (the point where the president takes the lead in dialogue). We estimate that the Assembly should have the key role in this process. The LDK's position is that we don't discuss who leads them, but the Assembly has its own role. It should be negotiated in its initial stages. Kosovo is the parliamentary republic”, he added.