Ombudsman: ZRE's decision to pay electricity in the north is discriminatory

Ombudsman Naim Celaj says citizens in Kosovo continue to face procrastination of judicial procedures. This institution revealed that during this year it has accepted a thousand and 536 complaints, cases in which there are 2,000 and 387 persons who claim their rights were violated.

At a media conference, the ombudsman says he continues to consider the Energy Regulatory Office's decision to pay the current in the north as discriminatory.

The first-instance court's decision has been approved, and we have undoubtedly expected such a decision we have not expected another decision because we continue to consider any uneven treatment of citizens in this case as discriminatory and as illegal and anti-unconstitutional”, says Celay.

While in terms of the country's energy crisis and the government's decision to support KEK, Celay says they still have no position but to stress that if they found there were human rights violations they would react.

“As far as the government's decision on the KEK's subsidisation going on in the last few days, we haven't come up with a stance, obviously we're closely following the situation and all the actions that the government takes and if we find these actions represent human rights violations, we're definitely dealing with reagu, but I always consider these cases the most efficient form of response is the court because you saw the extent of implementing the ombudsman's recommendations, despite the fact that a rise in implementation of recommendations remains the implementation of the implementation rates of the low<> says.

In contrast, of the complaints filed by citizens, 665 cases have been opened for investigation, and in this issue, 44 cases opened on official duty and 12 cases that were opened after media reporting.

“continue to continue that our citizens are facing many challenges related mainly to procrastinating judicial procedures where they occupy 26% of their country in our statistics. Then the violation of the right to an efficient legal tool so the actual functioning of law enforcement and equality for citizens in dealing with the law that accounts for 20% of complaints, and it also remains very disturbing to protect labour rights, which no doubt has 12% of the number of complaints which only appeared before you today”, the Ombudsman says at a news conference.

According to the ombudsman, this institution has closed 753 cases this year and 29 of them have been closed due to the complainer's lack of interest.