Civil society urges MPs to vote for NGOs

The Civil Society Foundation(KCSF) says that the draft law for NGOs with the latest amendments has led Kosovo to be the first state in Europe to allow, in order for the wealth of the non-governmental sector, to be changed and transformed outside these civil society organisations.

The director of this organisation, Taulant Hoxha for Kosova Prees, says that among this provision, many uses are being made bad and that this prevents any donor from helping the nongovernmental sector.

He called on all MPs to attend the next session and vote for the president's amendments that return the bill to the previous situation, without the parliamentary Commission for Public Administration amendments, Local Governance and Media. This is the biggest problem and paves the way for multiple misuses in hundreds of millions' worth. But the concept of civil society. This prevents any donor or member of a foreign country. Whether a foreign donor, the government of Kosovo that helps the nongovernmental sector because it does not have the confidence that that assistance will be used for the mission, but it can easily end up in private pockets. ...Deputes are very clear, to support this initiative, this requirement that is the risk prevention of civil society should come to the summit and vote for it. Whatever lack of them, it actually paves the way for the destruction of the sector, between this disposite”, says KCSF director Taulant Hoxha.

Even the Kosovo Law Institute speaks harshly against passing the bill in this form.

The director of this institute, Betim Musliu, says that in this way the non-governmental sector will be endangered overall.

If the law is passed as approved in the Kosovo Assembly, then the non-governmental sector is at risk in its entirety. Mistreatment and corruption in the nongovernmental sector... As far as we could tell all this doesn't seem to be random, but it's very deliberate and the trends in fact that the non-governmental sector in which micro-financed organizations are part of have been constantly challenged to simply make an adjustment regarding these organizations that are managing millions and which are being seen in different forms have been trying to turn this budget into a budget from which individuals can benefit from, he tells Kosovas.

Meanwhile, the deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Commission for Public Administration, Local Governance and Media, Albanian Pantina, comes to the aid of nongovernmental organisations.

She says there are some articles in the draft law for NGOs that violate the principle of their free work.

For this reason, Pantina called on MPs to vote for them when the president's recommendations come.

“These articles generally violate the principle of free association and one of those that you're referring to I'm calling on all MPs that at the next session, when the president's recommendations will be in order to vote for them so that Kosovo is not criticized and other international bodies for efforts to violate the freedom of association for the rights of non-governmental organisations, she says.

Despite Kosovo's insistence, the initiator of these amendments, at the same time Parliamentary Commission Chairman Nait Hasani has refused to pronounce on the issue.

To vote in favour of the amendments of President Hashim Thaci must vote on 61 deputies, and if it does not pass then it will remain in power, as it has been voted. /