Budget Review to Be Done With Accelerated Procedure

LVV Parliamentary Group chief Mimoza Kusari-Lila has submitted a procedure for phased adoption of the budget review before Kosovo deputies. With 69 votes for, 13 against and no abstention, MPs have approved this proposal.

It has called on MPs to be sent to relevant budget review commissions and then on July 27th to hold sessions for full adoption of the budget review.

After this adoption is addressed to the functional commission by July 22, 2021, Thursday 4: 00 p.m. The functional commission until July 23rd and Friday must review the bill and the report with recommendations to present permanent commissions. Permanent commissions through July 26th -- 1600 on Monday -- will review the bill and the recommendations presented to the functional commission. The functional commission until July 27, 2021, 4: 00 a.m., should submit the report with recommendations for second review at the plenary session. I invite the session to vote on this avoidance of procedure so that we can vote and by the end of the month have full approval of the review of the” budget, she has declared.

It has later announced that the second review session, with their proposal, will be held on July 28th.

We propose that the second review of the 08L16 bill for amendments and completion of the 07L41 law take place at the plenary session with July 28th 2021 beginning at 10:18x1>, it added.

However, the Democratic Party of Kosovo has not agreed to this avoidance of procedures. Bedri Hamza has said this is one of the most important documents addressed in the Kosovo Assembly.

“Sic is being seen, the government is always delaying, and then when it is delayed, I am putting it under pressure -- and it is neither in the function of transparency, nor in accountability, nor in creating conditions for MPs to make their contribution, but even budgetary organisations have the opportunity to apply within two readings. Therefore, as a result of delays, I consider this to be one of the most important documents the assembly deals with, go into regular procedure, and in regular hands, it arrives until the 28 July term to come to second reading. Otherwise we are against this practice that every time the demand for accelerated procedure” comes to the assembly, Hamza said.

E, LDK MP chief Arben Gashi stressed that earlier when a review of the budget with accelerated procedures was asked to be approved, the Vetevendosje Movement attacked.

I remember today as mayor screaming at the assembly you're taking him with accelerated procedure, if you want to hide something, there's hiding here, tell me what hiding is, the same procedure you're doing. What are you hiding? We've been hiding something, and now you're in power, and you know we've been hiding something, what we've been hiding, and what you're hiding in accelerated procedure. Come show me here. Second, still with the government record with Rakiqi, you're forgetting you have a minister in government. Our Serbian List colleagues have just voted to pass the budget. They are participating in the assembly and are voting from Prime Minister Kurti's meeting with Vuciqi in Brussels, in any preliminary vote have taken part of”, he said.

According to him, the LDK does not support accelerating procedures for adoption of 2021 budget revision. He has even remembered when LVV rejected international agreements.

Following Gashi's statement, Chief Parliamentary Glauk Konjufca has stressed that LVV with LDK has been in the same positions that in opposing positions. So he added that

It's good that when you explain to the end your political project, if you think you've entered this phase that's the extreme phase of political means that we don't want any consensus with the majority deputies, for us this power is so harmful, and it's being endangered, so that we don't even vote on the international agreement, nor the budget, that they go to these citizens, the workers, then it's okay, but present the argument that's the only guarantee that goes into the election. But election after election means it's totally irrational”, Conjufca has declared.

Meanwhile, AAK Parliamentary Group chief Besnik Tahiri has demanded that the budget review procedure not be accelerated for 2021.

Our parliamentary group requires that the procedure motion go smoothly, because the issues we raised can be dealt with more substantially with with with with with the finance minister and on the Commission for Boarding”, he said.

At the end of the discussion, MPs have approved the proposal for speeding up budget review procedures.

Then I found that by 69 votes for, by 13 votes against and no abstention, the assembly approved the proposal in question, that is, the motion, with all the pre-term deadlines for reviewing the 08L 016 bill for amending and completing the law, number 7L 041 on budgetary divisions for 202118x1>, Conjufca has announced.

In this case, the functional commission is commissioned and permanent commissions that, in accordance with this decision, examine this bill and the assembly of Turkey present recommendations. /kp/