Selmanaj: Government and Parliament Must Declare Emergency Situations

Democratic League of Kosovo MP Driton Selmanaj has asked the Kosovo Government and Assembly to declare a state of emergency in order to address the migrations of Kosovo citizens.

He during the extraordinary session, in terms of migration of Kosovars, said institutional alerts must be raised, to prevent dangerous trend, as he called it, of fleeing Kosovo citizens.

“I have a proposal, not to issue a resolution, but the Government and the Assembly of Kosovo must take care to declare the state of emergency for a period to address this topic. Let's set up institutional alert to make concrete projects on how to stop this dangerous trend for Kosovo. To remove highway projects has 1 billion euros. For whom do we lay them, for those who are fleeing. We take off the celebrations for 500 grand euros for independence, for whom are we celebrating for the people who are leaving? For whom we would be deputies here tomorrow, in fact who I am for today, I put the very fundamental question”, he said.

He added that the migration of Kosovo's citizens is a sensitive topic, which he said should not be discussed in which year there has been the greatest exit of citizens, since he found them to be all guilty.

I see more of it as a complete failure of the political, cultural, social and all areas, which we have had from post-war to today in the realisation of the state of Kosovo. Now, of course, some are more to blame, some are less to blame, especially those who have been in power, the biggest blame falls on them. How it is possible that 20 years after the war in Kosovo almost every second person living in Kosovo project his future outside Kosovo. I took some data from the German Embassy and saw that somewhere only for 2-2017 and 2018 were issued about 35 thousand working visas, while I realized that 79 thousand were in the process, only the German Embassy”, he said.

This, he claims, is happening because of poverty and also the drowning of hope