Star for VV's vows on social schemes: They have not shown how they will be realised, given as campaign promises

Ymer said the future government should focus on reducing the gap between the poor and the rich, in the better process of redealing wealth, on creating the best working conditions in Kosovo, and especially should focus on creating more jobs, given more priority to women and young people.

These are four points of social transformation that the VV should make. If you don't, I think he's failed to fulfill his promises”, he said.

And so unfortunately, I haven't seen that the Vetevendosje Movement has the market on how these schemes will be financed, so it has given them as pledges, campaign promises, but there's no market exactly how these will come true, and I don't think we have any analysis, at least of the effects that these will achieve. So, as promises are very good if they're fulfilled and then we'll see what the real effect is on the ground, for example, if we talk about this parental vacation which, as explained, is likely to be divided between mother and father, I think this is necessary, it's extremely important that the burden for raising and caring for the family be divided between us, so that we don't have discrimination within the family, as we currently have. So the woman is the one who is expected to stay home and take care of the house, while the husband is the one who potentially participates in public life and I think this should be changed”, the former Kosovo delegation told Online Economy.

In Kosovo, the number of highly educated working women is greater than the number of men, according to the Statistics Agency.

While the number of unemployed is high in women. The director of the Institute for Social Policy “Mousine Koklari”, Ymer says institutions must take more rigorous measures to improve the ratio of women and men in employment.

But changing this requires a social transformation, so this transformation cannot be made through a measure, so it takes some measures for this social transformation to be realized. The payments then that are for the leave of the unemployed women who are 250 euros a month, this as a measure may be good but the realisation of it, first its financing will be a challenge and second, then with this measure we can create or maintain a social situation in which the woman is expected to be the one who stays at home, so what it takes us in Kosovo to see more rigorous and serious measures that will improve the report of women and men in employment so that we have just equal representation in institutions, so we need to have as much of a job report equal, because if you see these numbers in Kosovo are urgent, these are only about 12 percent of women's jobs, 80 percent of them are in the market. This means that 80 percent of women stay at home, or we say they stay at home, and then this stay in the house doesn't count the chores, so there are no institutional mechanisms that child care, house care, we don't have mechanisms that know this as a job, and that's why we're also told in the languages with these mistakes that I made, we say that the woman stays home, or in fact the woman's job more than the man who works at work, and in this direction I consider that this is the social transformation that we need. For this transformation, these measures that the Vetevendosje Movement has proposed are good, but they are insufficient and at times may even be harmful”, he said.

The Kosovo government has made a decision to adopt the initiative for the Credit Agreement with the European Investment Bank. According to the government, this agreement is for financing Small and Middle Enterprises and access to vaccines against Coved-19. Ymer says borrowing is not a concern for the country, but where that money is spent is important to know.

Only Kosovo is found in an economic crisis, but the entire globe, especially the Western hemisphere. In this regard I consider that deep economic crises, regardless of which country and in which era they occurred, cannot be faced without an external financial stimulus, and this financial stimulus comes from public institutions in the form of loans taken from other banks or in other forms, could also be internal debt”, he said.

I don't have a problem with public debt or its growth, but I'm more concerned about where that money is being spent and what we're getting is, a good governance, a government that has an economic development vision would finance it with loans from abroad or in domestic public debt, so by banks these pension Funds and so on, but with these would make sector selections, which sectors create more jobs and which sectors improve our trade balance, these are important. So it's not just an idea not to take credit, we have to take credit anyway, but where we spend these loans on me is the main question”, he added.

The “now in the Vetevendosje Movement programme, which is not much in this election, but has been more pronounced in the 2019 elections, has been the idea of creating a Public Bank that would deal with strategic investment of strategic projects. I think that this was a very good idea, this idea had also had the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo highlighted in its economic programme and I think this would have to be the way forward because businesses in Kosovo even without crisis, and especially because of the crisis, it should create access to capital which is convenient and affordable”, the former VV leader said.

In addition, the former Kosovo delegation says there has been no transformative idea of the economy by any political party so far.

So until now, banks in Kosovo have not created this opportunity because the interest rates have been very high and in this respect I consider that we should have intervention from state institutions that access to capital will become easier for businesses in Kosovo, but then there should be selection of strategic sectors. For example, which sector we think about in investment for the future, which sectors create more employment, which sectors create export opportunities. So this would have to be economic logic that is used especially in times of crisis. So unfortunately, we haven't seen a transformative idea of the economy, unfortunately not even VV to 50 days of governance. However, we cannot judge that it has been too short and we can't talk much about that period, but I think that now because there is no need for coalition with another party, that the VV can make the government alone in co-operation with non-Serb communities, then it's easier for the government according to its original idea, and if it doesn't do that, I think it loses an important chance to take action that would transform us as an economy and therefore as a” society, he said.