Haradinaj Mustafa: You can't get over the results of our work, you're attacking us with false figures.

Haradinaj has written that those who are doing so are reaching out for the results of his work.

LDK chief Isa Mustafa in a reaction several days ago, based on World Bank reports, had written that unemployment is increasing in Kosovo and foreign direct investment is decreasing.

Haradinaj's full response:

Since the beginning of government, we have been open and transparent in every public encounter on developments in the country and have provided accurate information and data on both the growth trend and the reduction of unemployment rates. In that spirit, under any circumstances, we cannot and will not allow citizens to be manipulated and to create public opinion falsely, be they media or political.

We also face a similar tendency with news of the loss of 17 thousand jobs during 2018. This news remains manipulated and deliberately distorted, and statements of part of the policy acts in support of a “false warning” are unacceptable and deignive for the country.

The best evidence in opposition to reports and assessments of job loss is the very deminor of this news from the World Bank, which acknowledges the decline in unemployment rates and Kosovo's economic growth, the largest in our region.

According to official data, there is a (year) drop in unemployment rate of about 1 percent. That's the number of unemployed as a percentage of the total active workforce. At the same time, there has been a decline in the number of people who have participated in the job market. Based on official data, the creation of net jobs in July-November 2018 had not yet fully compensated for net jobs in the first two quarters of the year. This has led to an estimated decline in the employment rate (which is the number of employees as a percentage of the working age) of 1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018 compared with the same quarter in 2017, a range of 7900 jobs, according to the job force survey.

In addition to this clarification, it is also an undeniable fact that Kosovo has marked the largest economic growth in the region and with legal reforms, fiscal facilities and foreign direct investment, this positive trend, in the coming years, is designed to increase more.

From these facts, the responsibility for manipulation of public opinion with completely false statistics falls on all who manipulatively exploit the data, even distorting it, for achieving the misleading and distrustable effects of the truth, the work and results of the Government, which, as if seen, are not able to overcome.

RH