KMDLNj: State with double standards, make solutions for those who don't pay electricity bills

KMDLNj points out that if the state pays the electricity and other municipal expenditures to Serbs in northern Kosovo, without even ignoring their economic situation, then this country should free up citizens' categories in serious economic condition or cover some of these spending.

KMDLNY response:

TRAJS MY SLAIN DISTRICAL INSTITU COSOVATION COUNS OF ELECTRICTORS!

Since the end of the war, Serbs in northern Kosovo, but even in other locations where they live, have not paid the expenses for energy spent, as well as other municipal services such as water bills, waste and others. Even the bills for these services are inflated to Albanian and non-Serb consumers, forcing them to pay, without their knowledge and consent, the bills of Serbs and the losses of COST, which, even now, has asked the Kosovo government to allocate 11m euros for the spent and unpaid energy of Serbs in northern Kosovo. Actually, the current government Kurti 2 has not caused this situation but has inherited it from previous governments, so criticism does not have the right effect. KMDLNj, has sometimes reacted against the discriminatory treatment the Kosovo government is making against citizens who discriminate against them by using double standards, fair consumers punish them at high prices, and the operator shut off from the network if they are delayed a single day in paying off their obligations for the spent energy, while another category, respectively, Serbs, although they spend the electricity as much as they want, not that it does not cut them off from the supply network but pays them all their bills. This discrimination lasts since the war ended, and it is not finding the end. KMDLNj has demanded that this discrimination cease as if even all consumers who have been robbed by KEDS, since the end of the war through inflated bills, are compensated for the damage done to them. In a state or a normal country this thief could not happen and, if it did, those responsible would face the law. Even the ombudsman had earlier come up with a report stating that regular consumers were stolen from the KED and sought responsibility for this discrimination, but that nothing concrete had been taken in that direction.

Now, when the majority of Kosovo's citizens face existential problems, the institutions of Kosovo as well as KEDS dealt with a greater sensitivity for endangered categories and not continue to implement double standards, consumers and regular payers apply austerity measures, as well as for minor delays, on the other hand, to consumers who have not paid off and do not want to meet any stimulatory measures.

KMDLNY strongly condemns this approach of Kosovo institutions, while KEDS, along with KOST, considers the companies of robbers who flagrantly violate human rights for the fact that they are part of discriminatory mechanisms. KMDLNj calls on Kosovo institutions to find a quick solution for irresponsible consumers who do not pay bills for the spent electricity and other municipal services, on the contrary, nor will other consumers need to pay their bills. Kosovo institutions, respectively, should interrupt this vicious practice of implementing dual standards for citizens of the same country and should not treat citizens according to ethnic affiliation or political opportunity. Northern Kosovo Serbs have a much better economic situation than the majority of Kosovo's citizens who are regular taxpayers of costs for electricity, water and waste, so refusing to pay the current is completely political. Even the Kosovo government's decision to pay the electricity to Serbs, from the end of the war until now, is not about humanitarian causes but exclusively about political causes. For the Government of Kosovo, it is the time of the end to establish order in the area of running debts to all those who have outstanding debts, despite ethnic affiliation and political beliefs. Every citizen must pay for the spent current and services offered, without being discriminated against in any way.

If the state pays electricity and other municipal expenses to the Serbs in northern Kosovo, without even ignoring their economic situation, then the same state should free up the categories of citizens in serious economic condition or cover some of these expenses.

In this respect, the state itself, instead of defending the interests of citizens, is openly violating them through implementation of dual standards and exclusiveness on ethnic grounds. This is unacceptable and unacceptable in terms of human rights and the principle of equality!