Price raise course: Seeking Calmness and Patience - Ignore Critics

Prime Minister Albin Kurti has written about the problem that is bothering citizens many recent days: price hikes.

Kurt has blamed critics for this situation as he reveals that it is a global problem.

“are the same that last year, on behalf of the economic recovery, had rewarded large supermarkets by hundreds of thousands of euros, despite the fact that they were the same businesses that had record profits in pandemic times.

So ignore them. The government is on the side of the citizens, writes Kurti.

Full prime minister's post:

Kosovo, like the whole world, has been exposed to an inflation that mainly comes from four factors: breaking off the supply chain due to pandemic, restoring global consumption faster than could be adjusted to production, which during the pandemic was stopped, growth at a global level of energy price, and various speculators becoming crisis winners.

The inflation rate according to the Statistics Agency at the end of September was 4.9%, which is in line with global price hikes for several products.

In recent days, however, we are witnessing a campaign trumpeting daily for price hikes and trying to blame Government for that.

This, on one hand, aims to pave the ground for manipulators to raise prices on the pretext that we are now in an environment where each price has to rise, whether there is a price increase or not, while on the other hand, it seeks to drive nervously and panic into citizens.

The panic and expectations of price hikes affect scared buying, resulting in a lack of products on shelves, and therefore further price hikes.

That was what they had tried to do at the beginning of the COVID-19 last year, at the price of flour. Then we had called for calm, and had guaranteed that no one would remain bread. It turned out that way. However, many citizens had completed flour in their homes at a price of two triple because of the lack of flour and the increase in prices. The only winners then turned out to be merchants.

The same thing - calm and patient - I am asking them now as we are working to get a package of measures that come to the aid of the citizens the following days.

And those who are blaming Government now have never regretted the price of bread, nor have the plight of citizens. Otherwise, they would have reacted when agricultural land was seized. For 10 years, more than half a billion euros of taxes have been spent on agriculture, agricultural productivity has suffered a decline because subsidies did not go to farmers but to their friends ' pockets.

They're the same ones who didn't say a word when the oil factory in Ferizaj was sold for scrap. And now they complain about the price of imported oil!

They are the same as last year, on behalf of the economic recovery, they had rewarded large supermarkets with hundreds of thousands of euros, despite the same businesses that had record profits in pandemic times.

So ignore them.

The government is on the side of the citizens.