3 minutes agoKosovo MPs for nine months traveled 300 times abroad
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)During 2018, Kosovo's Assembly has marked performance hikes compared to past years. 42 Assembly sessions and 437 parliamentary commission meetings have enabled the highest lawmakers to fulfil the 42 per cent mass legislative agenda, which is a 6 per cent increase compared to the years [...]
That's what it was said today during the publication of the Kosovo Parliamentary Monitoring Report from the Kosovo Democratic Institute(KDI).
Agnes Haxhiu from KDI stressed that early in 2018, the exit from the Serbian List coalition has affected that the Assembly hearings have been blocked and unable to decide.
“The Parliament's work in 2018 characterised the lack of quorum, which has blocked decision-making in most plenary sessions and forced the head of the session to postpone the work. As a result, many unfinished points of the agenda from various sessions have been collected and placed on the agenda of a single session, a phenomenon that has been repeatedly repeated throughout the year”, Haxhiu said.
Apart from the partial boycott of the Parliament's work by LDK and VV parliamentary groups at the year-long session of the Parliament's work, the participation of other MPs has not been fair. According to the KDI report during 2018, in total MPs have realised 1671 shortages. As far as MPs' absences according to parliamentary groups mostly lack is the LDK parliamentary group with a total of 436 shortages, followed by VV with 257, the Serbian List with 255, The PDK with 196 and PSD with 186 shortages.
The parliamentary group, with the least lack, is the 54-lack GP 6+, NISMA with 76 shortages and AAK with 132 shortages. The Assembly, meanwhile, has marked aggression in financial transparency, publishing only the financial report for the ninth month of 2018, which is talking about 300 trips abroad at a cost of about 240 thousand euros. Only for the April-June 2018 period have MPs' spending on trips abroad increased by 86 per cent compared to the first quarter of the year, and 87 deputies from 120 deputies have benefited from them.
