2020 draft does not receive support from opposition

At the Commission for Boards and Transfers, Minister of Finance and Transfers Besnik Bislimi during the presentation of the 2020 budgetary division and rationalisations for 2020, said budgetary revenues for 2020 were meant to be 2 billion and 20m euros, while expenditures would be over 2,357 billion euros.

While, he stressed that with this budget there are no highlighted interventions in the budget programme, except in RTK and the Ministry of Agriculture.

Moreover, the minister of finance and transfers said budgetary movements for municipalities have not changed from the past. However, there was criticism from members of the Commission that the 2020 budget is not developmental and does not differ from the budgets of past years, rather, it did not receive the opposition's support for further prosecution.

The development budget, it's a completely hit idea, just because I want to say that of 2,357 billion, which is the 2020 budget, the amount of 620m euros is budgeted for salaries or 26 per cent of the budget. 357m euros for goods and services, 633m euros for subsidies and transfers. That's what's going on since the budget, about 1.6 billion is that at the very beginnings... that part that had to reflect the government's development priorities, is about 450 million euros, by these means I could accommodate most of the new government's priorities this year. Not after that were the problem the past government has been very successful in contracting future budgets. So of that amount of 450m euros, 421 million are only contracted last year. It's a fact that the government is a cloud, but the budget is not new. For this, I also agree that this budget is not developmental, but it is not our”, Bislim said.

LDK member Shkelzen Hajdini said that all the time it is said it will become the budget for economic development, education, health and others, but, according to him, this budget is slightly different from preliminary budgets.

We all say that we will make a budget for economic development, an increase in the quality of education, an increase in quality of health services. However, considering the budget that we have ahead, the budget slightly differs from other budgets that have come to us by other budget laws. I propose that we start to budget with the concept, because developed countries have begun to adopt the concept of economic growth budgeting escape from”, Hajdini said.

While, from the beginning, PDK member Bedri Hamza disagreed that the Commission is violating the Parliament's Labour Rule for reviewing the draft budget four days earlier, even though this Commission in the recent meeting had voted in favour of a faster budget review.

Former Finance Minister Hamza had enough criticism of the bill, such as economic growth, spending and lack, as he said, of money for implementing the wage law.

Hamza said any positive budget change supports him, but according to him, there is a difference between the electoral promises, the government programme and the 2020 budget.

The salary measure, if the Constitutional Court's decision, without prejudice, is not enough. 619, even with a total of all the contingent that leaves 654m euros, which is not enough. The government either has to increase taxes or public debt to change fiscal order, or the government has to change the budget structure to harm capitals. He was told here about the decision of expropriation, you made all the decisions that are not good to cancel, whoever made the”, Hamza said.

After the speech, MP Hamza left the commission, arguing that he had nothing more to discuss, while the deputy chairman of this commission from the AAK ranks, Shkumbin Demaliaj, who did not discuss the budget at all, and who was then unable to vote the draft in absence of quorum.

MP Demalaj stressed that they are unwilling to discuss the budget so hastily on the part of the post and supported MP Hamza for his stance.

I already support Hamza for the move. Minister Besnik Bislim was, he didn't see fit to stay on the commission here. The position does not have the quorum to continue, and it is seen to be not interesting to them. The possibility of considering the budget, MPs do not have the budget, only on email. As a parliamentary group, we have not examined him in the background or at the appointed time. So we're letting you call... ”, Demalij said.

The bill was not put to the polls, because there was no quorum, but the chairman of the Commission for Buxe and Transfere, Hekuran Murati, the emphasis that the vote will take place at another meeting.

Taking into account that the discussion was exhausted in relation to the budget bill in terms of first reading, while for voting, since Sʹka Kuorum will warn you, at this moment we are interrupting the meeting, I inform you with time to continue and vote on the bill”, Murati said.

While Deputy Alternative but Part of the VV's GP, Mimoza Kusari Lila, asked Finance and Transfers Minister whether financial tools have been provided for the company “Bechetel-Enka” and the new “Kosovo”, or any possible arbitration with the 2020 budget.

Finance and Transfers Minister Besnik Bessikmi has not been in the Commission all the time, arguing that he will attend the special Commission's meeting for the prevention of coronary, where Agim Krasniqi, deputy minister of this dictatorship, was replaced.