Abraham: The municipalities spent 65% of the means for capital investment, Government failed in this direction

This has been made known by the head of the Kosovo Commission Association (AKK), Saban Ibrahimi.

He has said that the percentage of municipal spending this year is evidently higher than the government. According to him, the central level has less capital investment spending, while saying it will exceed hundreds of millions of euros.

“Based on the analysis of the Kosovo Communist Association, it turns out that municipalities have spent more than 65 per cent of the capital investment means by Friday afternoon and given that they have this week available, then we are confident that the percentage of local capital investment spending will go up to 70 per cent. Based on the information we have, the central level will exceed hundreds of millions of euros which have been dedicated to capital investments and these investments, Kosovo's citizen will not touch”, Ibrahimi says.

Ibrahimi says that with this percentage of expenses on the part of municipalities, the percentage of expenditures at the central level increase, which this year is low “due to the Government”.

We can conclude that the percentage rate of expenditures at the local level has greatly impacted that the percentage of spending on capital investments at a higher level. So this is a contribution to municipalities even though we have problems and challenges this year, and especially the AKK's request has been to complete the Public Procureing Organization Board, but then the demand has been that municipalities be allowed to review the budget, then problems with the high inflation rate, but also the non-designmentation of the Public Procurement Law. All these challenges, we can say, have succeeded in taking into account the percentage of spending in capital investments”, Ibrahim says.

“We as Association have addressed the concerns of local authorities and our professional colleges have identified the problems and we have addressed these problems at the central level that the main blame that even municipalities don't have very high rates as they have in years of capital investment spending, is the fault of central level”, Ibrahim said.

Blame for low local percentage, Abraham makes government. He has also listed the facts why the Government may be guilty of failing to see capital investment tools.

The central “level has decided when to establish the Public Procureing Organization, and this body has not been complete for more than a year, so municipalities have been unable to do anything in this direction but it has been in the middle-level hand, then its non-alarming of the Public Procument Law. We as association gave our demands, but it is not within the power of municipalities to harmonise laws but also to adopt laws”, Ibrahim said.