Effects of Stalling Government Forming Process

The parties that came first, the Vetevendosje Movement and the Democratic League of Kosovo, though they are meeting and negotiating, are failing to agree on the division of power.

Kosovo has experience of long process negotiation of ruling coalitions. But observers say the country is in a period when processes must be accelerated to avoid extending an institutional vacuum that could have consequences for the future.

Skender Krasniqi from the Oda of Kosovo Afarists told Voice of America that delays in forming institutions affect different issues, as is the adoption of the 2020 budget.

Unfortunately this is not the first time, even last year, although the Kosovo government had been consolidated in September, the budget in February was approved for this year and there was the same trouble so it is not any innovation. It is not good that institutions are not being created, and we are hoping that the consequences will be smaller because the atom or impact the frustration of citizens and businesses”, he says.

On the basis of the laws in power, the Kosovo government would have to adopt the budget and send it to parliament by 31 October, or by the deadline allowed for December 31st.

If this does not happen by December 31st, parliament could authorize spending a dozen of last year's budgets.

But that amount can only be spent by the end of February next year says economy expert Naim Gashi.

“It is impossible to set for the budget without going to the finance ministry, the Kosovo government, parliamentary commissions and the plenary session. So in the situation where we have unconsolidated congregations and lack of government then we face the risk of a budget crisis on a March of next year where wages are not threatened or state public institutions (4)x1>, says Mr. Gashi.

Under the medium-term cost framework 2020-2030, Kosovo's 2020 budget is expected to be around 2.4 billion euros, or a million euros more than this year's budget.

But economic connoisseurs say it's time to change its mode of division.

“Mbi 80 per cent of Kosovo's budget so far has been spent on asphalt, goods and services, wages and wages, and in paying social schemes. I think the new government should give importance to education and health because there are two vital sectors as far as Kosovo's developmental perspective is concerned, but also the return of hope to our young people who are leaving on a daily basis, says Mr. Gashi.

Kosovo has no real development strategy on where to direct ourselves and what to prioritize. We hope that many problems will be fixed with the next government, and businesses will be better addressed than they have been treated so far. The priorities should no longer be highways, but it should be citizenship, business, increased employment of well-being because we are the country that has about 70 percent of the unemployed population”, says Mr. Krasniqi.

Kosovo was in a similar situation on the eve of 2019, entering it without a budget, which parliament approved in February.