Without any emergency situation, government spent over 1m euros on state reserves

During the first months of this year alone, the government has made decisions to share resources from this reserve in the amount of 1,097,774 euros.

The Finance Ministry has released news.net that in the 2019 budget, under the “programme. Unpredicted spending” under the budgetary category Rezerovat) is set at 4.8m euros.

This ministry spokesman Muharrem Sahini has said these tools are budgeted to address cases of unpredictable demands, such as natural disasters.

These tools are budgeted to address cases of unpredictable demands of budgetary organisations such as natural disasters or any other spending that is urgent and has not been predictable”, Sahin said.

For these actions, the government is being criticised by opposition parties.

44 deputies of the Vetevendosje Movement Parliamentary Group along with those of the Democratic League of Kosovo and two of the Alternatives have called for extraordinary sessions to discuss government decisions on sharing financial means from unforeseen spending.

This session was not held yesterday in absence of quorum and has been postponed for an indefinite day.

The head of the LDK Parliamentary Group, Avdullah Hoti, has told news today that the first conditions in the Public Finance Law must be met for the separation of resources from reserves.

“For any request for a separation of resources from the reserve should be received the assessment of the Budget Department, which should give legal opinion on whether the initial legal conditions for separation of resources from the” reserve have been met, Hoti has declared.

He added that there is always a need for caution in the use of tools from the reserve because emergency situations may appear throughout the year.

We stress that last year the Government of Kosovo has spent 8m euros from the reserve spending category.